One of my new things (of which there are many these days\u2014I feel sort of adolescent, changing and growing and trying new things faster than I can keep up with, in a good way) is playing.<\/p>\n
Playing: spending time lavishly, staring into space, wandering around the block, sitting on the kitchen floor eating blueberries with Mac.<\/p>\n
My goal upon returning to real life after lake life is to keep my summer heart\u2014my flexible, silly, ready-to-play, ever-so-slightly irresponsible heart. What I\u2019ve been delighted to find is that it\u2019s not that our real life is all wrong, by any means\u2014it\u2019s not that I\u2019m doing work I hate or that I\u2019m ill-fit for the life we\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s that for all sorts of reasons, I default to hustle mode all too often.<\/p>\n
Hustle is the opposite of heart.<\/p>\n
And so one of the tiny little things I\u2019m learning to do is to play\u2014essentially, to purposely waste time. Strategically avoid strategy, for five minutes at a time. Intentionally not be intentional about every second. Have no purpose\u2014on purpose.<\/p>\n
There \u00a0are \u00a0lots \u00a0of \u00a0conversations \u00a0right \u00a0now \u00a0about \u00a0how to do everything better\/faster\/smarter, how to streamline, multitask, \u00a0layer, \u00a0balance, \u00a0flow, \u00a0juggle. \u00a0How to \u00a0monetize, strategize, and on and on. This is good stuff. Necessary stuff. But my jam these days is wasting time, playing, becoming aware of that internal engine that always wants to go faster, faster, faster. That engine is not the best part of me. My heart\u00a0is the best part of me.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m finding that my heart loves to play. My heart loves to color and draw, loves to dance in the kitchen, loves to shoot baskets, loves to do cartwheels with my nieces in the front yard.<\/p>\n
What would our lives be like if our days were studded by tiny, completely unproductive, silly, nonstrategic, wild and beautiful five-minute\u00a0 breaks,\u00a0 reminders\u00a0 that\u00a0 our\u00a0 days\u00a0 are for loving and learning and laughing, not for pushing and planning, reminders that it\u2019s all about the heart, not about the hustle?<\/p>\n
Taken from Present Over Perfect<\/strong> by Shauna Niequist Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Shauna Niequist. Used by permission of Zondervan. www.zondervan.com.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my new things (of which there are many these days\u2014I feel sort of adolescent, changing and growing and trying new things faster than I can keep up with, in a good way) is playing. Playing: spending time lavishly, staring into space, wandering around the block, sitting on the kitchen floor eating blueberries with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":3738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[493,494],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","tag-present-over-perfect","tag-shauna-niequist"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}