{"id":197,"date":"2015-07-02T22:09:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentequip.info\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2015-07-02T22:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:09:55","slug":"2-break-your-personal-rules-deliberately","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/?page_id=197","title":{"rendered":"2. BREAK YOUR PERSONAL RULES DELIBERATELY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dnn_ctr512_HtmlModule_lblContent\" class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #2e3d47;\">\n<p>Break your own personal rules of\u00a0<b>expecting too much of yourself<\/b>; expecting to have the shopping list fulfilled perfectly, expecting to be able to do &amp; be everything &amp; beyond; expecting to work &amp; be there for your kids &amp; others &amp; to keep it all together. It&#8217;s okay if you can&#8217;t do everything &amp; fulfil everyone else&#8217;s expectations of you as the mother, the wife, the friend, the church member, etc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Realize that if someone around you is bored, unsettled, miserable it&#8217;s NOT actually your fault or responsibility; it&#8217;s not necessarily your problem to fix. Stop being the rescuer! Life is to be enjoyed! And that means YOUR life also!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>B<b>egin expecting to thrive, not to just survive!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b>SUCCESS<\/b>\u00a0is NOT necessarily measured by achievement, or by the standards of others, our church, our family!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If necessary give yourself permission to have\u00a0<b>deliberate &#8216;non-productive&#8217; days<\/b>\u00a0where you read a novel, knit, paint, go to the beach, garden, etc. Something that is hands-on, &#8216;non&#8217;productive&#8217; ,on purpose! (Consider a season of self-imposed therapy!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Break your own personal rules of\u00a0expecting too much of yourself; expecting to have the shopping list fulfilled perfectly, expecting to be able to do &amp; be everything &amp; beyond; expecting to work &amp; be there for your kids &amp; others &amp; to keep it all together. It&#8217;s okay if you can&#8217;t do everything &amp; fulfil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/?page_id=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2. BREAK YOUR PERSONAL RULES DELIBERATELY!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":193,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}