{"id":52250,"date":"2024-05-11T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52250"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:50:58","slug":"qotd-enough-time-to-get-things-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/11\/qotd-enough-time-to-get-things-done\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Enough time to &#8220;get things done&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>If you ever wish you could have more time to get something done, just remember: if you did have more time, you wouldn&#8217;t get more done. The extra time would melt away, and you&#8217;d be back feeling pressure to get it done in too little time. You might as well enjoy the free time and not moan about the things you didn&#8217;t achieve. Idle moments at the dining table, talking about this and that, are much more your real life than all those grand accomplishments, achieved and unachieved.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Althouse, <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/easter-and-end-of-spring-break.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Easter and the end of Spring Break&#8221;, <em>Althouse<\/em><\/a>, 2005-03-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever wish you could have more time to get something done, just remember: if you did have more time, you wouldn&#8217;t get more done. The extra time would melt away, and you&#8217;d be back feeling pressure to get it done in too little time. You might as well enjoy the free time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-52250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-randomness","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dAK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88944,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52250\/revisions\/88944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}