{"id":1678,"date":"2019-05-31T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:00:19","slug":"hurry-up-and-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Hurry Up and Do Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/images-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/images-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>In our current state of technology overload and the expectations of busyness, we&#8217;ve seemingly forgotten our\u00a0need for quiet and calm. \u00a0New studies are showing that our bodies need this time to rest, reconnect, and even become more creative. \u00a0The New York Times article,\u00a0<span class=\"balancedHeadline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/29\/smarter-living\/the-case-for-doing-nothing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\"><strong>The Case for Doing Nothing<\/strong> <\/a>recommends finding the state of &#8220;Niksen,&#8221; a Dutch word meaning to do nothing. \u00a0Keeping our bodies in motion and our brains occupied may feel productive but often leads to exhaustion and a reduced capacity to work efficiently. \u00a0Turns out that we actually need extreme down time, or as they say in the article, boredom. \u00a0Give it a try! \u00a0Take an afternoon to sit and daydream, go to the park and people watch, sit on the couch and imagine, then see how you feel afterward. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our current state of technology overload and the expectations of busyness, we&#8217;ve seemingly forgotten our\u00a0need for quiet and calm. \u00a0New studies are showing that our bodies need this time to rest, reconnect, and even become more creative. \u00a0The New York Times article,\u00a0The Case for Doing Nothing recommends finding the state of &#8220;Niksen,&#8221; a Dutch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hurry Up and Do Nothing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1273,1282,1276,1272,1279,1275,1277,469,1274,1280,1283,1278,1281,83],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-boredom","tag-calm","tag-daydreaming","tag-doing-nothing","tag-efficiently","tag-exhaustion","tag-more-productivity","tag-new-york-times","tag-niksen","tag-people-watch","tag-rest","tag-technology-overload","tag-the-park","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}