{"id":324,"date":"2008-01-04T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T21:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2008-07-02T20:08:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T00:08:49","slug":"do-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Just Do Something!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, years ago, I realized that I wasn&#8217;t pursuing any of the many ideas I had. I remember saying, &#8220;If I did half of what I thought about doing, I&#8217;d be twice as successful in life.&#8221; It sounded wise, but I didn&#8217;t listen until I became so desperately unhappy that I finally said to myself, &#8220;Just do something!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when enrolled in library school. True, I left the program after a single semester, but it wasn&#8217;t a failure. I learned things that I needed to know and that I still need to keep in mind.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t want to be a librarian. That&#8217;s good to know, and because I gave it a shot, I&#8217;ll never have to wonder &#8220;what if?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I like school and I&#8217;m good at it. Though I can&#8217;t make a career out of taking classes, I can do something with the interests and skills that make school so enjoyable for me.<\/li>\n<li>Change is good. When I went back to school, I felt more energized. I met new people. I had new things to do, to think about, to say.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was right. Doing something is better than doing nothing. Even though I took the wrong path, it gave me answers to questions, sharpened my skills, and kept me active.<\/p>\n<p>Now here I am at the same place again&#8212;full of ideas, pursuing none of them, and becoming desperately unhappy. So I say again, &#8220;Just do something!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, years ago, I realized that I wasn&#8217;t pursuing any of the many ideas I had. I remember saying, &#8220;If I did half of what I thought about doing, I&#8217;d be twice as successful in life.&#8221; It sounded wise, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1],"tags":[26,72,82,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}