I’m adding a new chapter to my book Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder. The chapter is on medications and the draft needs to be to my coauthor Dr. John Preston on Monday. I have a DRAFT….. and here I am at a coffee shop working with my friend Avi and guess what I just did for 30 minutes?<\/p>\n
Email<\/p>\n
Messed around with some Internet blogs (American Idol!)<\/p>\n
Opened the files I need to work on and wrote a few sentences.<\/p>\n
And then I caught myself- this is no way to work and this is not how I can work if I want to be successful. I know better.\u00a0 So, the internet goes off. I simply turn off the wireless. All extraneous material I have around me goes in my bag. My files are open, my pens are ready and I am going to keep saying my favorite work mantra\u00a0 from Get it Done When You’re Depressed \u00a0– until I get into the groove and write a great chapter.<\/p>\n
FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m adding a new chapter to my book Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder. The chapter is on medications and the draft needs to be to my coauthor Dr. John Preston on Monday. I have a DRAFT….. and here I am at a coffee shop working with my friend Avi and guess what I just did for 30 minutes?<\/p>\n
Email<\/p>\n
Messed around with some Internet blogs (American Idol!)<\/p>\n
Opened the files I need to work on and wrote a few sentences.<\/p>\n
And then I caught myself- this is no way to work and this is not how I can work if I want to be successful. I know better. So, the internet goes off. I simply turn off the wireless. All extraneous material I have around me goes in my bag. My files are open, my pens are ready and I am going to keep saying my favorite work mantra from Get it Done When You’re [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11748,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/11748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}