{"id":273,"date":"2008-10-20T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2008-10-20T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:02:18","slug":"thought-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Thought and Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think for a while now I&#8217;ve lived with a seperation of thought and action.\u00a0 I mean to do one thing in my mind but my actions indicate otherwise.\u00a0 The downfall of it all is that I&#8217;m equipped to succeed yet I choose to drift along.\u00a0 My will power required to break bad habits isn&#8217;t strong enough.\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost as though I need to be brought straight to failure to realize that I have to change up my lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Waking up today to my cat pawing at my mouth, I realized that instead of just talking about the things I need to accomplish and finish, I need to set in motion the plan to actually do the things I need to accomplish and finish.\u00a0 I snapped at someone this weekend for talking about all these things they wanted to do.\u00a0 I basically said, &#8220;Ok shut up already, just do it!&#8221;\u00a0 As I typed it out, it resounded within me for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Without going into too much detail, I think I&#8217;ve had this philosophical notion of my life that&#8217;s put a handicap on my abilities and progress.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve lived a life of trying to be behind the scenes and non-interfering with everything around me.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time I became a bit selfish and self indulgent to my own needs and priorities.<\/p>\n<p>So with that, this is my declaration of progress moving forward!\u00a0 I need to finally break into programming as a hobby instead of just an activity I do for grades.\u00a0 I need to reduce the amount of time I participate in my other hobby and turn it into a form of study for my future endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I think the use of Google Reader and Twitter compounded this feeling that I watch life instead of live it.\u00a0 I have an abundance of things I read about other people doing yet all I can say is an uninspired snippet here and there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think for a while now I&#8217;ve lived with a seperation of thought and action.\u00a0 I mean to do one thing in my mind but my actions indicate otherwise.\u00a0 The downfall of it all is that I&#8217;m equipped to succeed yet I choose to drift along.\u00a0 My will power required to break bad habits isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}