{"id":4787,"date":"2014-07-09T18:59:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T00:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2014-07-08T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:53:08","slug":"i-try-to-take-one-day-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/i-try-to-take-one-day-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"I Try To Take One Day at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI try to take one day at a time, but lately several days have attacked me at once.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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How often do we feel like that lady looks!\u00a0 Way too often!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking one thing at a time feels impossible most days.\u00a0 Life doesn\u2019t throw things at you one at a time with a nice little time delay in between each item\u2026oh, no\u2026it comes at you like an automatic tennis ball serving machine on crack!\u00a0 Those balls are rapid firing out in every direction as if the machine is possessed by some evil spirit that can\u2019t wait to make your life as miserable as possible!\u00a0 And there you are running all over the tennis court taking swings as fast as you can all the while being pelted by these balls coming at you from every direction.\u00a0 Sure you successfully hit a few balls back over the net, but mostly you just feel all bruised up in black and blue welts from being pelted so many times!<\/p>\n

So how do you stop the possessed rapid fire serving machine from spitting out so many balls at once in every direction?\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at a few ways we can do that:<\/p>\n

Start by removing any of the balls from ever entering the machine in the first place.\u00a0 Take out the balls that really weren\u2019t that important to have in there to being with.\u00a0 Identify them, pull them out of the basket and throw them off the court where they never have to hit you again.<\/p>\n

Next look at each of the remaining balls and figure out which you could possibly give to another person to add to their serving basket to handle for you.\u00a0 Are some of the balls less important for you personally to handle?\u00a0 Could someone else just as easily take care of it for you? Maybe they won\u2019t handle exactly the way that you would handle it, but could their handling it still be good enough to get the outcome needed?\u00a0 If so then get it out of your basket and give it to someone else!<\/p>\n

Now look at the remaining balls and ask yourself \u201cAre these the balls I can\u2019t live without in my basket\u201d\u00a0 If they are then keep them.\u00a0 if they aren\u2019t then reevaluate what it would take to change them for new balls and start figuring out how to swap them out for the balls that matter most to you to have in your basket.<\/p>\n

Once you have done all of that turn the machine on with a smile and say \u201cBRING IT!\u201d\u00a0 Then run like crazy, bounce all over that court, and do the best you can to hit those balls back over that net!<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI try to take one day at a time, but lately several days have attacked me at once.\u201d How often do we feel like that lady looks!\u00a0 Way too often!!! Taking one thing at a time feels impossible most days.\u00a0 Life doesn\u2019t throw things at you one at a time with a nice little time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,510,4511,4517,4516,3487,4522,631,4518,4520,218,76,180,64,2057,1284,4513,1656,4515,88,123,413,949,4521,1416,440,275,1248,4514,4512,78,54,172,4519],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anxiety","tag-balls","tag-beat-up","tag-bruises","tag-bumps","tag-delegate","tag-distress","tag-effective","tag-eliminate","tag-evaluate","tag-failure","tag-goals","tag-happy","tag-life","tag-manage","tag-management","tag-match","tag-outsource","tag-possessed","tag-pressure","tag-priorities","tag-prioritize","tag-priority","tag-reevaluate","tag-serve","tag-simplify","tag-stress","tag-successful","tag-swing","tag-tennis","tag-time","tag-time-management","tag-try","tag-unnecessary-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}