{"id":176,"date":"2010-01-12T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2010-01-12T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:42:34","slug":"work-as-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/work-as-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-arranging the deckchairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/distractions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-183\" title=\"distractions\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/distractions.png\" alt=\"distractions\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>My &#8220;multi-tasking&#8221;, &#8220;threaded&#8221;, &#8220;distributed&#8221;, &#8220;distracted&#8221; world tends to make concentrated work and thought rare. This year, I&#8217;d like to see if I can look up, look inside, take time to breathe, talk to myself, be still and mindful before I jump straight into the vast connected chamber that I work in.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flow_(psychology)\">Flow<\/a> : The Psychology of Optimal Experience describes this Zone as a place where focus is complete and involvement (and success) in the activity at hand keeps you concentrated. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m trying something new. I&#8217;ve re-arranged the garden furniture outside my office door. Before I sit down at the computer, check\u00a0 my email \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/weblearning\">Twitter stream<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/shared\/user%2F09230831286297707131%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred\">feeds<\/a>, I haul out my analogue blog (my journal), disconnect from the world and attempt to\u00a0connect my centre, with another reality (call it God if you like) before I jump into the set of distractions that constitute my work.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it could be that I&#8217;m merely re-arranging the deck chairs.  I hope that I&#8217;m redrawing boundaries to protect and preserve the mental and emotional space required be connected to me, and then  to enter that totally immersed, passionate and timeless space where I can creatively engage with the tasks at hand. We&#8217;ll see how it goes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;multi-tasking&#8221;, &#8220;threaded&#8221;, &#8220;distributed&#8221;, &#8220;distracted&#8221; world tends to make concentrated work and thought rare. This year, I&#8217;d like to see if I can look up, look inside, take time to breathe, talk to myself, be still and mindful before I jump straight into the vast connected chamber that I work in. Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/work-as-prayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Re-arranging the deckchairs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-file","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}