{"id":960,"date":"2020-10-21T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2020-10-21T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:32:28","slug":"time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trees.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trees.png 500w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trees-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Colorful autumn trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I set goals. Every year I try to lay out a three year plan. It&#8217;s a little obsessive, but it keeps things moving and gives me a North Star for navigation in decision making. Every month, I re-evaluate them. And quarterly, I do a brain dump to see if what I&#8217;m thinking about now squares with where I wanted to go. I tried to do my monthly review at the beginning of the month and the associated brain dump and&#8230;it all stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked at the different categories and some of them are just&#8230;meaningless in our current climate. So many things either don&#8217;t matter anymore or are not achievable that I have to toss out major chunks of The Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now look, I already did that when we made a massive move to another state during a global pandemic. But even the last bits of lattice I had from The Plan in the Before Times is now gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife and I walked the dogs at the park Sunday. It was quiet and beautiful. The trees are lit up in colors and the dogs got good and tired. I felt much calmer after that (and before the puppy threw up in the car on the way home). It occurs to me that I need to give more room to the recreational. Maybe what I need are goals around things that aren&#8217;t capitalized in &#8220;Plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to see that we&#8217;re not going back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set goals. Every year I try to lay out a three year plan. It&#8217;s a little obsessive, but it keeps things moving and gives me a North Star for navigation in decision making. Every month, I re-evaluate them. And &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=960\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,49,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}