{"id":598,"date":"2010-12-25T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2010-12-25T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T15:56:31","slug":"happy-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Happy Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improvementscience.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Xmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-601\" title=\"Xmas\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.improvementscience.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Xmas-230x300.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Have you ever had a Christmas day that felt like you were trying to cram too much into one day &#8211; and ended up feeling\u00a0stressed and irritable &#8211; and not enjoying yourself as much as you wanted &#8211; then doing it all the same next year just because you felt it was what was expected?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a feeling we all get all the time with many things &#8211; we keep doing them the same way and get into a rut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So what would happen if you changed the plan on year?<br \/>\nWould the world come to an end? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What have you got to lose by pacing yourself?<br \/>\nIt is possible to get further by going slower?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We all know that it is &#8211;\u00a0we all know that if we all rush for the same goal as a disorganised rabble we can trip each other up and everyone goes slower &#8211; just observe\u00a0our behaviour sometimes.\u00a0 And the more stressed and panicky we get the more likely we are going to switch to look-out-for-number-one behaviour\u00a0and starting pushing in and pushing others out. Someone will get through first\u00a0but they do not get through as quickly as\u00a0they\u00a0could have. Smooth flow is more efficient\u00a0than turbulent &#8211;\u00a0so with consideration and collaboration everyone gets further, faster and easier. Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had a Christmas day that felt like you were trying to cram too much into one day &#8211; and ended up feeling\u00a0stressed and irritable &#8211; and not enjoying yourself as much as you wanted &#8211; then doing it all the same next year just because you felt it was what was expected? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Xmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}