{"id":104,"date":"2025-10-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:18:13","slug":"saturdays-are-for-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Saturdays are for dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What do I want out of today (my real day off), this week, this month, this year, my life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the sorts of questions I ask on Saturdays. It&#8217;s a worthwhile exercise for your brain. I try to set at least one goal every Saturday &#8211; of any duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every Saturday, I am going to set four goals and revisit the following week and see how I&#8217;m doing&#8230;you can hold me accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;m heading into a busy school week. I&#8217;m refreshed and relaxed after a week off. I didn&#8217;t get as much done as I wanted to, but I did get a lot done and I am feeling decidedly less stressed than I was going into the break. The obvious goal is to make sure the school week doesn&#8217;t destroy all the relaxation progress I made last week. But what does that look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My goals to assess in a week are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Break even on grading (same amount coming into the &#8216;to do&#8217; pile as goes out in the &#8216;finished&#8217; pile). This will keep my stress level manageable.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>deadline: Friday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complete at least four strength workouts (20 min each). These workouts keep me healthy and aging well. I both love doing them and tend to put them off&#8230;what can I say, I&#8217;m complicated.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>deadline: Friday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finish one pleasure reading book. When I was a teen, I read voraciously, but other hobbies snuck in. I have been trying to read more now that the kids are bigger and I have more me time, but I am guilty of reading half a book and then putting it down. For instance, I am partway through Hail Mary by Andy Weir, but I haven&#8217;t touched it in months. This is the one I want to finish next.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>deadline: Nov 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clean office. This is a guest room for Thanksgiving when family comes to visit. And right now it&#8217;s a trash dump. Must. Fix.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>deadline: Nov 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Goals are good, but everything says that accountability is the best. Here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do I want out of today (my real day off), this week, this month, this year, my life? These are the sorts of questions I ask on Saturdays. It&#8217;s a worthwhile exercise for your brain. I try to set at least one goal every Saturday &#8211; of any duration. Every Saturday, I am going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}