{"id":254,"date":"2014-04-17T04:18:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T04:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2019-04-18T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:29:04","slug":"wasting-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wasting-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasting Hours?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Appointment<\/a><\/p>\n

I used to be a type A person (and still am!). You know the type. I’m that type of person who feels if I’m not doing something, I’m totally wasting time. I am that type of person who likes \u201cto do lists.\u201d <\/p>\n

I grew up being nurtured into believing that work is what life is all about. I can still hear my dad teaching us kids, \u201cWork, work, work.\u201d I was brought up by a society that thinks this way and reared up by teachers who give us greater worth as students when we perform well. I grew up thinking that my worth as a person is equal to the amount of work I put in. Worst of all, I am that type of person who gets really upset when those people around me are not doing their responsibilities as they are expected to. In short, I am often a miserable person. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

\"boot3d_sm\"<\/a>I am supposed to be a man of faith and yet because of this nature, prayer has been difficult for me at times because I feel it is getting in the way of me accomplishing something for the day. One time, I was invited to take a walk up the San Gabriel mountain trails and I felt like I was going to waste three hours of precious time. Hmmm\u2026 Three hours! That\u2019s a lot of time wasted! List of things to do march one by one in my mind. I could do gardening. I could vacuum the floor. I can paint a bedroom. I can start learning Spanish. I can study how to edit video movies.<\/p>\n

Now that I am older, I started seeing how wrong I am when I have this attitude! Praying and meditating during my hiking are not wasted hours but invested hours. How many times in my life when it was through prayer that I found strength. Taking the time to walk to appreciate God\u2019s beautiful creation is not a waste. So many occasions in my life, I found wisdom and peace through solitude and meditation. Taking time to press the \u201cpause\u201d button in life is important. <\/p>\n

Out of the silence in my life I hear the whispers of my GOD.<\/strong> Out of quiet comes the understanding that I have people who love me and that I have a wife and a family who care a lot. And best of all, I realize that I care for them too\u2026 and what really matters is not how I perform or what I have accomplished. More important than performance is the relationship I have with my friends, my family and my God. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used to be a type A person (and still am!). You know the type. I’m that type of person who feels if I’m not doing something, I’m totally wasting time. I am that type of person who likes \u201cto do lists.\u201d I grew up being nurtured into believing that work is what life is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bermiedizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}