{"id":48931,"date":"2024-01-21T22:08:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48931"},"modified":"2024-01-21T22:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:08:26","slug":"take-time-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48931","title":{"rendered":"Take Time Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-48932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Take_Time_Out-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Take Time Out\" width=\"753\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Take_Time_Out-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Take_Time_Out-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Take_Time_Out-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Take_Time_Out-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Take_Time_Out.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In chatting to many people I have been able to help them identify their basic purpose. It has always been a specialization of the desire to help.<\/p>\n<p>I think the problem is that we are not taught to look for it, to recognize and pursue it. In many cases we are dissuaded from it &#8211; &#8220;You can&#8217;t make enough money doing that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like some ideas on how to identify your basic purpose, here&#8217;s a blog post I wrote to help you:<\/p>\n<p>How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Hv9AEaFwEI\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=37862\">How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life&#8221; &#8212; Tom&#039;s Blog on Life\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=37862&#038;embed=true#?secret=XRpR8CdgXL#?secret=Hv9AEaFwEI\" data-secret=\"Hv9AEaFwEI\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In chatting to many people I have been able to help them identify their basic purpose. It has always been a specialization of the desire to help. I think the problem is that we are not taught to look for it, to recognize and pursue it. In many cases we are dissuaded from it &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Take Time Out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48933,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931\/revisions\/48933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}