{"id":42,"date":"2002-07-28T22:37:41","date_gmt":"2002-07-29T02:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2002\/07\/28\/the-right-amount-of-time\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T05:08:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:08:34","slug":"the-right-amount-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/28\/the-right-amount-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The right amount of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, nothing really special, thats why i kept quiet in the last days. I am really busy right now with a 4 days\/week freelance contract, trying to update my portfolio, and trying to build up the new unitedsituation website.<\/p>\n<p>Why am i always running against time? Even when i stopped to work, i didnt had enough time. When i had enough time, then i was not really using this time. Looks like i have a problem here&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why i included the brian eno quote in this month&#8217;s newsletter (Quote was a definition of well-being by brian eno, &#8220;having just the right amount of time&#8221;)<br \/>\nI think having too much free time is somehow not helping me.<br \/>\nKnowing that i will not have all the time i would like to have keeps me pushing myself to realize my goals and kick my ass because its the only time i have to do so. I call this self pressure.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, having too less time is for me really stressy. I get totally anxious and stressed out just at the idea that the next 2 days are fully &#8220;booked&#8221;. I need an empty agenda, with more free time than busy time. Thanks god, i think i have some kind of balance right now, but i always feel on the edge of not having enough.<\/p>\n<p>So, with all that in mind, i tried to spend a &#8220;as relax as possible&#8221; weekend. Well, i didnt really had the choice since i was totally brain dead from the last 2 weeks of work and keeping up personal projects. <\/p>\n<p>Still, after 2 weeks of rain, we got a super sunny weekend, and i had to go out for a ride thru hamburg. I took some pictures, some sun, and some time to enjoy life, something i think we often forget to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> * * * <\/p>\n<p>Talking about time, july 28th is the date where i headed up to germany 3 years ago&#8230; and yes, that&#8217;s the day i met my german boyfriend! Memories&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, nothing really special, thats why i kept quiet in the last days. I am really busy right now with a 4 days\/week freelance contract, trying to update my portfolio, and trying to build up the new unitedsituation website. Why am i always running against time? Even when i stopped to work, i didnt had&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/28\/the-right-amount-of-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The right amount of time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10832,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/10832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}