I recently read that the happiest people are those who are present in every moment instead of wallowing in the past or planning for the future. I think the problem is society places a lot of focus on future plans as do most work environments so it’s really tough not to get used to that mindset. I catch myself thinking about the future far more than the present. For instance, right now I’ve got two things I’m looking forward to – 1) our annual Thanksgiving potluck at work tomorrow and 2) getting through this insanely busy week (6 hours of overtime already in the bag and it’s only Tuesday) so I can enjoy the entire week of Thanksgiving off. Both of those things make me happy so I guess it’s not always bad to be focused on the future, especially if it helps get you through a not so pleasant present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently read that the happiest people are those who are present in every moment instead of wallowing in the past or planning for the future. I think the problem is society places a lot of focus on future plans as do most work environments so it’s really tough not to get used to that mindset. I catch myself thinking about the future far more than the present. For instance, right now I’ve got two things I’m looking forward to – 1) our annual Thanksgiving potluck at work tomorrow and 2) getting through this insanely busy week (6 hours of overtime already in the bag and it’s only Tuesday) so I can enjoy the entire week of Thanksgiving off. Both of those things make me happy so I guess it’s not always bad to be focused on the future, especially if it helps get you through a not so pleasant Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}