{"id":87,"date":"2007-10-22T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T02:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2017-06-10T16:56:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T23:56:01","slug":"the-definition-of-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/the-definition-of-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Definition of Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2011 Update: I think one of the dumbest posts a blogger can make is a post about how we are too busy to write a post&#8230; \u00a0But it&#8217;s a mistake almost all of us make. Here is mine from 2007:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-88\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Busy\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/busy-200x127.gif\" alt=\"How to define Busy\" width=\"200\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/busy-200x127.gif 200w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/busy-300x190.gif 300w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/busy.gif 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>How do you define &#8220;busy&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s mine: You know you are busy when you catch yourself making a list for all the things you need to make lists for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a list of things I need to do for the adoption process.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list of things I need to do for my Thesis.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list of homework projects that are coming due soon.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list of high priority projects at work.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list of things I need to do around the house and to the car to keep everything working.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list of edits and changes that need to be done to the website.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list of things to do to keep from going crazy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How about you? How do you know when you&#8217;ve taken on too much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think one of the dumbest posts a blogger can make is a post about how they are too busy to write a post&#8230;  But it&#8217;s a mistake almost all of us make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2245],"tags":[6,19,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-87","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-redeeming-life","8":"tag-blogging","9":"tag-discipleship","10":"tag-writing","11":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Definition of Busy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I think one of the dumbest posts a blogger can make is a post about how they are too busy to write a post... 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