{"id":463,"date":"2008-10-22T15:45:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/10\/22\/get-it-done-when-you%e2%80%99re-depressed-27\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:06","slug":"get-it-done-when-youre-depressed-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/get-it-done-when-youre-depressed-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed # 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><o :p><font face=\"Calibri\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o><o :p><font face=\"Calibri\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o><font face=\"Calibri\">Focus, Focus, Focus.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">I often space out and float around when things aren\u2019t going well. I\u2019ve learned a simple technique that works. I say, \u201cFocus Julie. Just focus Julie. Focus now. What comes first? Focus Julie.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">This targets my jumbled brain. I can then actually look at something such as a pile of papers and say, \u201cFocus Julie and pick the first step.\u201d<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Saying this out loud especially helps. It\u2019s better than the thoughts in my head that say I never get anything done! <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Julie <\/font><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Focus, Focus, Focus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">I often space out and float around when things aren\u2019t going well. I\u2019ve learned a simple technique that works. I say, \u201cFocus Julie. Just focus Julie. Focus now. What comes first? Focus Julie.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">This targets my jumbled brain. I can then actually look at something such as a pile of papers and say, \u201cFocus Julie and pick the first step.\u201d Saying this out loud especially helps. It\u2019s better than the thoughts in my head that say I never get anything done! <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Julie <\/p>\n<p> <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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\/463"}],"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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12159,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/12159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}