{"id":1348,"date":"2021-02-03T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2021-02-07T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:45:48","slug":"get-off-the-hamster-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/get-off-the-hamster-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Off The Hamster Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1348\" class=\"elementor elementor-1348\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-009828f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"009828f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-006530a\" data-id=\"006530a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e18185c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e18185c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"\" data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\"><em>\u201cHow are you?\u201d<\/em><\/p><p class=\"\"><em>\u201cBusy.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p class=\"\">Surely you\u2019ve heard this all too common response or given it yourself when someone has asked how you\u2019re doing.<\/p><p class=\"\">While we might complain about being busy, busyness is frequently worn as a badge of honour in our world where many fear being left behind by the rapid pace of change.<\/p><p class=\"\">The thing is, busyness is not forward motion. It\u2019s a trap. Busyness is a hamster wheel that keeps us circling around the mundane while on auto-pilot. The busier we are, the faster we circle. Round and round, in motion yet going nowhere.<\/p><p class=\"\">While it might seem counterintuitive, if we want to move forward, we need to overcome inertia and slow down so we can get off the hamster wheel.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"\">When we slow down, we make space for curiosity, imagination, exploration, discovery, clarity, connection, creativity, and learning. These are what make up the fuel of forward motion.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it might seem counterintuitive, if we want to move forward we need to slow down so we can get off the hamster wheel of busyness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,3,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-collaboration","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Get-Off-The-Hamster-Wheel.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}