{"id":183,"date":"2007-08-06T16:02:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T23:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/self-help\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T16:58:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T23:58:49","slug":"self-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/self-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-help"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently (either through Digg of StumbleUpon) found an article 10 virtually instant ways to improve your life<\/a><\/em>. Now, I don’t usually go in for self-help douchebaggery, but this one made some sense to me. For the impatient, the ten things are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Stop jumping to conclusions.<\/li>\n
  2. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dramatize.<\/li>\n
  3. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t invent rules.<\/li>\n
  4. Avoid stereotyping or labeling people or situations.<\/li>\n
  5. Quit being a perfectionist.<\/li>\n
  6. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t over-generalize.<\/li>\n
  7. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take things so personally.<\/li>\n
  8. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t assume your emotions are trustworthy.<\/li>\n
  9. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let life get you down. Keep practicing being optimistic.<\/li>\n
  10. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hang on to the past… let go and move on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It’s amazing how many people come to mind when reading this: colleagues, questionable supervisors, ….<\/p>\n

    Of course, the elephant in the room is actually noticing<\/em> that you’re doing these things when you are. That seems to be the tricky thing.<\/p>\n

    Hmmm… Maybe I should just concentrate on one at a time and make real sure I’m not doing that<\/em> one. Fuck… that’s being a perfectionist! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I recently (either through Digg of StumbleUpon) found an article 10 virtually instant ways to improve your life. Now, I don’t usually go in for self-help douchebaggery, but this one made some sense to me. For the impatient, the ten things are: Stop jumping to conclusions. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dramatize. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t invent rules. Avoid stereotyping or labeling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}