{"id":48,"date":"2007-04-08T22:57:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T06:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-04-08T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T06:58:28","slug":"inner-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Inner struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So while, physically, I have recently been taking better of myself, during the quieter moments in life, I am reminded that my mind is still a mess. There is simply too many things that I haven&#8217;t had time to figure out yet. Work-life balance, I tell myself; it&#8217;s so much easier to say than it is to do though. I&#8217;m sure there are lots of people in the same boat, so I&#8217;m sure this situation is not unique.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think I&#8217;m being too hard on myself. In some ways though, it drives me. You can&#8217;t really push someone if they don&#8217;t want to be pushed. They have to push themselves. My own deficiencies, whether real or perceived within my own mind, is what urges me to try and better my predicament.<\/p>\n<p>I definitely don&#8217;t like failing, but the more sensible side of me know it is the only way to learn. Usually, when I initially fail, I re-double my efforts. If I fail yet again, that&#8217;s when I stop and take a step back to re-think the situation. Banging my head against a wall repeatedly has never been my style. Staying adaptable is one of our greatest strengths. Yet, I still feel like a broken record sometimes &#8212; doomed to repeat myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while, physically, I have recently been taking better of myself, during the quieter moments in life, I am reminded that my mind is still a mess. There is simply too many things that I haven&#8217;t had time to figure out yet. Work-life balance, I tell myself; it&#8217;s so much easier to say than it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}