{"id":553,"date":"2008-12-21T21:34:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T21:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/12\/21\/get-it-done-when-you%e2%80%99re-depressed-tip-do-half\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:30","slug":"get-it-done-when-youre-depressed-tip-do-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/get-it-done-when-youre-depressed-tip-do-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed Tip: Do Half!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are so American here in the states! Everything has to be FAST, PERFECT and ALL AT ONCE! In reality, it\u2019s fine to do half of something now and then the rest later. I would rather get at least one room vacuumed than get frustrated that I didn\u2019t do the whole house like I should have! I would rather decorate one room with holiday lights than get mad at myself that I didn\u2019t do the whole house like others wanted me to do! <\/p>\n<p>I always remind myself that doing half is a good thing- half a project gets finished eventually. Doing nothing\u2026. well, it never gets done. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about a sense of accomplishment. When we get something done, even if it\u2019s small, we feel better and want to feel that good again, so we many even just keep working, even if we are still depressed. <\/p>\n<p>Julie <\/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>We are so American here in the states! Everything has to be FAST, PERFECT and ALL AT ONCE! In reality, it\u2019s fine to do half of something now and then the rest later. I would rather get at least one room vacuumed than get frustrated that I didn\u2019t do the whole house like I should have! I would rather decorate one room with holiday lights than get mad at myself that I didn\u2019t do the whole house like others wanted me to do! <\/p>\n<p>I always remind myself that doing half is a good thing- half a project gets finished eventually. Doing nothing\u2026. well, it never gets done. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about a sense of accomplishment. When we get something done, even if it\u2019s small, we feel better and want to feel that good again, so we many even just keep working, even if we are still depressed. <\/p>\n<p>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\/553"}],"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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12110,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/12110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}