{"id":638,"date":"2009-02-24T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2009\/02\/24\/bipolar-disorder-and-work-im-unsure-what-to-do-but-i-will-do-something-anyway\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:25","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-work-im-unsure-what-to-do-but-i-will-do-something-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-work-im-unsure-what-to-do-but-i-will-do-something-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Work: I&#8217;m unsure what to do, but I will do something anyway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working will show you the way!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m almost done with my latest book proposal. It got sidelined when I got so sick in January. There are times when I truly can\u2019t work because of the bipolar disorder- but I can usually get through it and finish my work. Now it\u2019s time to get it done.<\/p>\n<p>I always write in my books that you don\u2019t have to want to do something to get it done. It\u2019s true! But I have found out something else as well- even if you\u2019re confused about the next step of a project- even when you feel overwhelmed and that you can\u2019t do it! \u2013 sitting down and starting the work actually tells you the direction you need to take.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I\u2019m going through today. This is a very difficult project- by far my most difficult book- and I just feel like watching a DVD and forgetting about it all. But I won\u2019t. I know what I want my future to look like- which means I have to sit down and work. So here I am in Starbucks. I wrote this blog to get myself started and now it\u2019s time to finish the proposal and get a new deal! I can do it! If you\u2019re working on a tough project \u2013 you can do it too!<\/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>Working will show you the way!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m almost done with my latest book proposal. It got sidelined when I got so sick in January. There are times when I truly can\u2019t work because of the bipolar disorder- but I can usually get through it and finish my work. Now it\u2019s time to get it done.<\/p>\n<p>I always write in my books that you don\u2019t have to want to do something to get it done. It\u2019s true! But I have found out something else as well- even if you\u2019re confused about the next step of a project- even when you feel overwhelmed and that you can\u2019t do it! \u2013 sitting down and starting the work actually tells you the direction you need to take.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I\u2019m going through today. This is a very difficult project- by far my most difficult book- and I just feel like watching a DVD and forgetting about it all. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-work-im-unsure-what-to-do-but-i-will-do-something-anyway\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- 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\/638"}],"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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12058,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/12058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}