{"id":6276,"date":"2023-08-12T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:47","slug":"a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6276","title":{"rendered":"A GOOD DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just finished writing a 3,000 word paper for my hermeneutics class and I am toast. But also feeling joyful.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I woke up dreading the day because I knew I was going to have to spend the majority of the given hours at my laptop, finishing this paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then I worked at changing my mindset.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remembered that there are far worse ways to spend a day than in a comfortable office in my comfortable house in the comfortable air conditioning.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I reminded myself that I would get some very pleasant breaks throughout the day &#8211; moments when I would pick some tomatoes in the garden, go for a run with one of the dogs, or enjoy a bowl of ice cream. The day wasn&#8217;t going to be ALL bad.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And besides, what&#8217;s so bad about spending the day looking closely at a passage from the Bible and writing about it. That&#8217;s not bad at all &#8211; in fact, it is an incredible privilege!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change in mindset made all the difference in my experience of this day &#8211; it changed my attitude and that changed my energy level.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In reflection, if I had retained my mindset of misery, I am not sure I would have finished by the midnight deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished writing a 3,000 word paper for my hermeneutics class and I am toast. But also feeling joyful.\u00a0 I woke up dreading the day because I knew I was going to have to spend the majority of the given hours at my laptop, finishing this paper.\u00a0 But then I worked at changing my [&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-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","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=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6277,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/6277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}