{"id":4158,"date":"2015-08-02T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2015-08-02T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T15:27:09","slug":"if-you-know-whats-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=4158","title":{"rendered":"If You Know What&#8217;s Good For You&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/blueberries.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4163\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/blueberries.jpg?resize=640%2C857\" alt=\"blueberries\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/blueberries.jpg?resize=765%2C1024 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/blueberries.jpg?resize=224%2C300 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/blueberries.jpg?w=1936 1936w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/blueberries.jpg?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I get up at 5:30 on weekdays and about 7:00 on weekends. I&#8217;ve been doing this for the past few years so I can write for about an hour before taking care of required life business. Too often, instead of writing I do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water the garden<\/li>\n<li>Pick blueberries from the yard (okay, this is lovely, right?)<\/li>\n<li>Check emails &#8211; mostly from Talbots, Lord &amp; Taylor, J. Jill, Real Beauty (??) &#8211; I never shop at any of these places<\/li>\n<li>Look at Facebook posts<\/li>\n<li>Read other people&#8217;s blog posts<\/li>\n<li>Clean the kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Grocery shop before the weekend hordes descend<\/li>\n<li>Read the newspaper<\/li>\n<li>Cook<\/li>\n<li>Laundry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laundry.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4164\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laundry.jpg?resize=640%2C857\" alt=\"laundry\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laundry.jpg?resize=765%2C1024 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laundry.jpg?resize=224%2C300 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laundry.jpg?w=1936 1936w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laundry.jpg?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, a few of these are necessary, constructive and nourishing things to do. But this is supposed to be my writing time. Why don&#8217;t I honor that? Why am I distracted by nonsense?<\/p>\n<p>If I write at the very beginning of the day, I get to walk around all day with a happy secret practically humming inside of me. It&#8217;s beautiful. I can physically locate that good feeling right below my ribs. Yes, as I sit here I feel like I&#8217;m charging my Solar Plexus &#8211; like I&#8217;ve got a little Sun in there glowing brighter as I put words to page.<\/p>\n<p>Only in writing this today did I realize the physicality of what happens to me when I write, that I can actually locate a place in my body (besides my stiff shoulders) where I feel this. Of course I had to step away for a minute for a little (distraction??) online research and found this on balancechakra.com:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div id=\"ctlBody\">\n<h1 class=\"editorH1\">Solar Plexus Chakra &#8211; Manipura<\/h1>\n<p>The Solar Plexus Chakra is a center of personal strength, learning and comprehension. It guides you through life by creating a strong sense of self, setting personal boundaries and building self esteem and willpower. The ability to bring change into your life and to the world is born within this Chakra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>No wonder starting the day by writing feels good! I&#8217;m feeling my Solar Plexus, baby!<\/p>\n<p>So why do I procrastinate rather than head directly to a beautiful accessible place? Do I need to look at those pictures of Amal and George Clooney instead? Really?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I do shit like that. Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get up at 5:30 on weekdays and about 7:00 on weekends. I&#8217;ve been doing this for the past few years so I can write for about an hour before taking care of required life business. Too often, instead of writing I do the following: Water the garden Pick blueberries from the yard (okay, this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=4158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If You Know What&#8217;s Good For You&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,246,19,7],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-morning","tag-procrastination","tag-time","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPzTS-154","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}