{"id":981,"date":"2006-12-13T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T13:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathodavid.malibulist.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2006-12-13T08:34:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T13:34:26","slug":"clearing-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/13\/clearing-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have become over the years a believer in using cleaning of a space as a mind clearing exercise. There is just a feeling of peace when looking at a clean space to me. I find that I have to clean up from one project to get another one started. I can&#8217;t  get into the groove of the next thing I am doing creatively without clean-up from the previous creative mess. This has been a lesson long in the learning. I am hoping to teach it to Caroline as an early age. I have been insisting that she clean up her previous project (puzzle, drawing, princesses) before going onto her next one. She is getting to be a self-starter on this now so maybe she is learning this lesson now.<\/p>\n<p>I got into the habit of making lists and breaking down projects into smaller components while I was stage-managing. I am a champion list maker now. I can break a job down into its tiniest parts. I have my long-term lists and my short-term lists. Again this helps me clear out the mind. It can be interesting to go back and see lists I made years ago both long term and short term.<\/p>\n<p>Not much else is coming to mind this morning to write about. My mind is already sorting out a puppet idea that I need to finish today.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for peaceful minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have become over the years a believer in using cleaning of a space as a mind clearing exercise. There is just a feeling of peace when looking at a clean space to me. I find that I have to clean up from one project to get another one started. I can&#8217;t get into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}