{"id":2073,"date":"2011-12-12T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:53:32","slug":"free-your-mind-and-the-rest-will-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/12\/12\/free-your-mind-and-the-rest-will-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Free your mind and the rest will follow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/4235.jpg\" class=\"image\" width=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I lied last week. <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to check into the blog and write a post on Friday, but I decided that it would be nice to not do work at all (since I already told myself to take the weekend off!). It was hard at first \u2013\u00a0my hands were twitching to go on my laptop and I was going against every bone in my body, but let me tell you \u2013\u00a0for just those few days, I let my mind wander.<\/p>\n<p>And it was so worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a break, no matter if it&#8217;s small or even unexpected, can bring about great things. I&#8217;d like to think that I&#8217;m good at switching off; and it&#8217;s mostly due to necessity because if I don&#8217;t do so, I&#8217;d probably die of exhaustion. So how do I flip that off switch?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s pretty simple \u2013\u00a0I dump out whatever&#8217;s in my head:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I use a week-by-week calendar, with everything written down \u2013\u00a0deadlines, projects, timelines, to-dos, etc. And I tick them off when I&#8217;m done, otherwise next week I&#8217;ll be writing the same thing down until it gets done.<\/li>\n<li>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/\">Google Calendar<\/a>, and I set reminders to let me know when I have events lined up.<\/li>\n<li>I dump my links and discoveries into <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\">Delicious<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I make notes in my <a href=\"http:\/\/springpadit.com\">Springpad<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I have a continuous list of groceries that I add to (on my phone, so that it stays with me wherever I go) so that I won&#8217;t forget what to grab at the supermarket the next time I am there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Freeing up the space in my brain allows it to work better and more efficiently. I liken it to a computer, where if too many applications are open, it crashes. So I make sure not to have to constantly remind myself about things (Google will so that for me), or keep a running list in my mind of things to do (my journal has them). Having more space in my mind allows me to be creative at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n<p>You should try it \u2013\u00a0do a brain dump today!<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Monday folks!<\/em><\/p>\n<h5> <em>{Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getsomeheadspace.com\/\">Headspace<\/a>}<\/em> <\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Free your mind and the rest will follow\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/12\/12\/free-your-mind-and-the-rest-will-follow\/\" aria-label=\"More on Free your mind and the rest will follow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31866,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/31866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}