{"id":1862,"date":"2022-11-23T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","slug":"holding-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"HOLDING ON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<i>Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.<\/i>\u201d \u2013 David Allen.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the clearest lessons I have learned in the past two years of writing on a daily basis is this reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing daily has trained me to pay greater attention to my own thinking.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An idea will often pop into my head during the day &#8211; while in the shower or walking the dog or studying the Bible &#8211; and if I don&#8217;t write it down immediately, it evaporates, disappearing as quietly as it came.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even writing an idea down doesn&#8217;t guarantee that I will &#8220;hold onto&#8221; it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have come to discover that in order to truly hold onto an idea, it must be acted upon.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the mind is for having an idea, it is the responsibility of the body &#8211; the hands, the feet, and the mouth &#8211; to hold onto it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYour mind is for having ideas, not holding them.\u201d \u2013 David Allen. One of the clearest lessons I have learned in the past two years of writing on a daily basis is this reality.\u00a0 Writing daily has trained me to pay greater attention to my own thinking.\u00a0 An idea will often pop into my head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}