{"id":7965,"date":"2013-10-27T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2015-05-05T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:37:22","slug":"find-a-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/10\/27\/find-a-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time, we talked about the hour per day to get you started in developing any new interest. Just as important is establishing a place<\/em> dedicated for that venture.<\/p>\n

It’s only reasonable: We live in time and space.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t have to be any place special to start with. I mentioned how my painting started at a card table. I had no easel, no brush storage or paint drawer or anything like that. It was just a table and a chair, a source of light and a trash can.<\/p>\n

That’s all I needed; but I needed that. I needed a place where I could leave it all out.<\/p>\n

You can get started at the kitchen table, of course, but what happens when you need to clean it all up? Such a solution works against regularity.<\/p>\n

Being able to leave the work out is part of the secret to success. To integrate the new interest naturally into your life, you need to be able to sit right down (or stand) in the midst of it all and immediately pick up right where you left off.<\/p>\n

My kids would laugh at this. When they were young, they would often hear me telling them to put their toys away, or as they got older, their projects. BUT, if they were still playing with them (working on them) that was different. They could leave everything out as long as they were still in process.<\/p>\n

When I determined to become a painter I found a place where I would never have to put it all away . . . because I would never be finished!<\/p>\n

And that was key.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking to integrate a new thing into your life, schedule the time, find the place, and never put it all away.<\/p>\n

It’ll make all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can’t do anything without a place to do it. Determining where will determine what. You knew that; here’s a reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10690,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions\/10690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}