{"id":884,"date":"2023-05-11T20:45:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/?p=884"},"modified":"2023-05-11T20:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:45:50","slug":"february-2-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/11\/february-2-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I subscribe to four principles of doing good work, any kind of work from the most mundane to the most complicated.\u00a0 The four principles are: 1) Give your full attention to the work surface, 2) Work for the work\u2019s sake, 3) Use the right tools and 4) Know when it\u2019s time to stop. I confess that these principles will elude me at times but when all are exercised appropriately I find the time spent is satisfying and joyful.<\/p>\n<p>This week I was continuing work on the \u201ccousins\u201d quilt.\u00a0 I received a digital copy of some artwork from one of the cousins and I am in the process of transferring the artwork to fabric to be incorporated into the border of the quilt.\u00a0 I want to embellish the piece and began with an idea that I had in mind.\u00a0 I started by making a prototype using scraps of fabric in order to strategize how I would do this with the final application.\u00a0 I was determined to complete the process without unnecessary seams that would interfere with the embellishment.\u00a0 I cut, sewed, cut again and sewed again, all to no avail.\u00a0 After several iterations, no matter the obstacles I overcame there was always another.\u00a0 I concluded it wasn\u2019t going to happen and called it a day.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing when to stop can be a difficult principle for me, given that I incline towards the obsessive when it comes to sewing (my husband might add others). I also labor over letting go of an idea that I am sure is just fabulous.\u00a0 However, <strong>knowing when to quit<\/strong> can be just as helpful as knowing when to start.\u00a0 In this case, I found it <em>liberating<\/em>, free to explore other possibilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I subscribe to four principles of doing good work, any kind of work from the most mundane to the most complicated.\u00a0 The four principles are: 1) Give your full attention to the work surface, 2) Work for the work\u2019s sake, 3) Use the right tools and 4) Know when it\u2019s time to stop. I confess &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,9,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-example","7":"tag-articulatingyourstrengths","8":"tag-strengthsfocused","9":"tag-strengthsfocusedpractices","10":"anons"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Barb","author_link":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/author\/barb\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I subscribe to four principles of doing good work, any kind of work from the most mundane to the most complicated.\u00a0 The four principles are: 1) Give your full attention to the work surface, 2) Work for the work\u2019s sake, 3) Use the right tools and 4) Know when it\u2019s time to stop. I confess&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}