{"id":190,"date":"2011-12-08T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2011-12-22T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T05:00:24","slug":"taking-it-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/balancing-thoughts\/taking-it-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking it Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take it easy, <\/strong>to make it easy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s snowing.\u00a0 A lot.<\/p>\n

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I can either look at it as an obstacle to the flow of my life, including shoveling snow and cancelling appointments.\u00a0 Or I can look at it as a really beautiful day to stay home, indoors, and make soup, and enjoy the security of my home.\u00a0 No matter how I look at it, I can\u2019t change the reality of knee-deep snow and more coming.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever thought about what it means to \u201ctake it hard\u201d?\u00a0 We usually apply it to death or some disaster or upheaval in our lives.\u00a0 But it\u2019s really about attitude.\u00a0 It\u2019s about judging an occurrence in reality and the emotional label you paste on it.\u00a0 If you \u201ctake it hard\u201d it\u2019s a pain, a burden, even a disaster.\u00a0 But oddly enough, and we almost never look at it this way, to \u201ctake it easy\u201d is really the exact opposite.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about relaxing.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the judgment you put on an occurrence in reality and how you allow it to impact your life, the flow of your reality.<\/p>\n

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If I take it easy my life isn\u2019t entirely screwed up by bad weather.\u00a0 If I take it easy, the death of a loved one is a loss to me but a joyful release for them.\u00a0 If I take it easy, I\u2019m not sick and angry over something bad that\u2019s happened.\u00a0 I can look for alternatives.\u00a0 If I take it easy, an obstacle becomes a challenge.\u00a0 And a challenge is a gift to prove I can do better, find a way around.<\/p>\n

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No, of course it\u2019s not easy, to learn to take it easy.\u00a0 But if I take it easy today, then I get<\/em> to go out and have some fun shoveling snow.\u00a0 And the appointments can wait till we\u2019re shoveled out.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not like I don\u2019t have plenty to do at home today.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve just made my whole to-do list a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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