{"id":157,"date":"2009-11-17T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T12:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2009-12-01T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T18:03:03","slug":"keeping-batteries-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/keeping-batteries-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping our batteries well charged!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/030.JPG\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-160\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"Autumn by church 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/030.JPG\" alt=\"Autumn by church 2009\" width=\"340\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a>I have been very busy working on a project at the moment and slowly I realised I was being less effective. The time it took to do things was longer than usual. My mind was wandering. And still I pushed on. Then it struck me, I was not taking that time out to recharge my batteries. As tough as it was to leave the project unfinished I went to visit a friend.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great lunch, shared a few stories since we last met and then took off into the mid afternoon air. It was great \u2013 the birds were chatting away, the autumn leaves were golden, the sky was fantastic with plump clouds sitting against a setting sun. We tramped down a lane, over a ford, up a hill, across a very muddy field, over an electric fence (which I discovered was very much \u2018on\u2019\u2026ouch!) past the church where the cows came to check us out, with their noses pushing though the fence. Then back for a steaming pot of tea \u2013 wonderful. Not a moment to think about that project, time invested in a great friendship. Wow what a treat\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the project did get finished and was much the easier and more fun after my \u2018time out\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A question \u2013 what are you doing to keep your batteries well charged?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Peter<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My good wishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I have been very busy working on a project at the moment and slowly I realised I was being less effective. The time it took to do things was longer than usual. My mind was wandering. And still I pushed on. Then it struck me, I was not taking that time out to recharge my batteries. As tough as it was to leave the project unfinished I went to visit a friend.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great lunch, shared a few stories since we last met and then took off into the mid afternoon air. It was great \u2013 the birds were chatting away, the autumn leaves were golden, the sky was fantastic with plump clouds <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/keeping-batteries-charged\/\">Keeping our batteries well charged!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-development","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}