{"id":133,"date":"2021-09-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2021-11-05T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:56:11","slug":"stop-complaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Stop Complaining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you blame the universe for all the wrongs done to you, you are wasting your time.&nbsp; If you are constantly talking about it, then you are wasting everyone else\u2019s time too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see, the Universe is stacked against all of us.&nbsp; There\u2019s a universal force of nature called entropy that is constantly and silently sucking the life out of the energy in the world.&nbsp; Look up the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Law of Thermodynamics.&nbsp; Actually, don\u2019t look it up, that would be a waste of time too and what are you reading for if not to figure out how to save a little time.&nbsp; Suffice to say that life is like walking up a sand dune \u2013 it takes way too many steps to get anywhere \u2013 but the view from the top is worth it.&nbsp; Or you could say that it\u2019s more like a house of cards that, once meticulously built with the greatest of care, has only one possible destiny.&nbsp; I could go on &#8211; there are plenty of analogies to describe the human condition \u2013 but why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, instead of brooding over your failings, don\u2019t think or talk about who\u2019s to blame and focus on your to do list.&nbsp; At the top, there is something you\u2019ve been putting off.&nbsp; Get that thing done and then complain all you want, it\u2019s your life after all and you can spend your time any way you want, but don\u2019t expect anyone to listen as long as they have something at the top of their to do list and the universe is conspiring against them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you blame the universe for all the wrongs done to you, you are wasting your time.&nbsp; If you are constantly talking about it, then you are wasting everyone else\u2019s time too. You see, the Universe is stacked against all of us.&nbsp; There\u2019s a universal&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/?p=133\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop Complaining<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[28,27,12],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pronique","category-pronabler","tag-complaining","tag-entropy","tag-to-do-list"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/procrastinomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shutterstock_1452440264-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}