{"id":11951,"date":"2010-09-11T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=11951"},"modified":"2010-09-07T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T19:19:05","slug":"guest-post-angela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/09\/guest-post-angela\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Angela"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi gang!\u00a0 I’m off to Atlanta this weekend to enjoy a foodie seminar put on by Food Blog Forum<\/a>. <\/em> If you think you cannot live without me, you can follow my adventures via Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ll try and tweet when I get a chance! <\/em><\/p>\n

While I’m out drinking, eating, and socializing<\/span>, learning how to better improve my blog and recipes, I have some awesome guest posts lined up for you!\u00a0 Today’s guest post is from Angela at Pretty in Orange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hi all, my name is Angela and I am the blogger behind Pretty in Orange<\/a>.\u00a0 I have been reading Off Her Cork for some time now and am lucky enough to be able to hang with Miss Andrea in person as we live in the same city.\u00a0 When she put out the call for guest posts, I was more than thrilled to volunteer.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s world, I think we are all suffering from some degree of ADD.\u00a0 I know that I have trouble concentrating sometimes.\u00a0 I start a task and then \u2013 oooo, shiny!\u00a0 Yup, I\u2019m gone.<\/p>\n

I actually need to have at least two things going on at one time to be able to focus \u2013 one that can occupy a part of my brain (such as music or TV) so that I can work on something else.<\/p>\n

When I would leave work, I would miss people greeting me on the way to the parking lot, because in my mind, I was already in my car, driving on the freeway.\u00a0 I found it impossible to live in the moment, as it were.<\/p>\n

I was laid off from my last job in January of 2009.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a blow to my ego to have not found a job yet.\u00a0 Still, I feel as though this time has been a gift and has forced me to slow down and find those elusive moments.<\/p>\n

I know we can\u2019t all be out of work for nearly two years and survive.\u00a0 I\u2019m lucky that I have a supportive fianc\u00e9 and that we\u2019re not in a position where we need my salary just to survive.<\/p>\n

So what can you do to live more in the moment?\u00a0 Here is what worked for me:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Realizing that trying to make everyone else happy would never work \u2013 because you can\u2019t ever get to 100% on that one.\u00a0 My time is better spent trying to make myself happy.\u00a0 I radiate happiness and that lifts the moods of those around me.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Giving myself permission to not be Superman\/Superwoman.\u00a0\u00a0 Stop holding yourself to some standard that can\u2019t possibly exist.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Figuring out what\u2019s really important in life.\u00a0 No one is ever going to look back on their lives and say, if only I had done more laundry.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Not going to happen.\u00a0 Think about what you DON\u2019T want to regret on your deathbed and go after that.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Yoga.\u00a0 I wish I had words to tell you what a difference this has made in my life.\u00a0 At first I thought I would never get to the point where I could slow down my mind enough to enjoy more than just the physical benefits.\u00a0 But through time and practice, I can now quiet my mind.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Focusing on the senses.\u00a0 I love to sit out on our deck and just take it all in.\u00a0 I try to imprint on my mind the scent of the air and the grass, the sounds of the geese and ducks (we have a pond), and just the general feeling of that particular moment.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve noticed is a real improvement in my relationships with people.\u00a0 I am focused on them when we\u2019re talking, really listening instead of just thinking about what I want to say.\u00a0\u00a0 I look at people while they\u2019re talking, instead of being distracted by what\u2019s going on around us.<\/p>\n

I hope that these tips can help you live in the moment more often!<\/p>\n

Thanks Angela!\u00a0 It’s always nice to take time and smell the flowers along the way right?\u00a0 I know I’m guilty of being so focused on other things, I forget to breathe!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi gang!\u00a0 I’m off to Atlanta this weekend to enjoy a foodie seminar put on by Food Blog Forum. If you think you cannot live without me, you can follow my adventures via Twitter.\u00a0 I’ll try and tweet when I get a chance! While I’m out drinking, eating, and socializing, learning how to better improve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,83],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-36L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}