{"id":79,"date":"2025-06-04T06:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beng.today\/?p=79"},"modified":"2025-06-04T07:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:11:18","slug":"taking-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beng.today\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Taking control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I haven\u2019t taken full control yet, but I\u2019m trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday felt like the first step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now comes the hard part: continuing to feel that way\u2014and acting on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a designer by profession, but I feel like I\u2019ve neglected it for a long time. It&nbsp;<em>was<\/em>&nbsp;my passion. I used to design in my free time, take photos, and share them on Instagram for friends and family to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it\u2019s endless scrolling, listening, and watching media without ever doing anything with the knowledge. It gets frustrating when I go to bed and think about how the day went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost never feel like I\u2019ve used my time to the fullest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking control is the first step. What I\u2019m trying to do now is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Make a daily plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do one important task<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do something meaningful in the evening before bed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t taken full control yet, but I\u2019m trying. Yesterday felt like the first step. Now comes the hard part: continuing to feel that way\u2014and acting on it. I\u2019m a designer by profession, but I feel like I\u2019ve neglected it for a long time. It&nbsp;was&nbsp;my passion. I used to design in my free time, take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beng.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}