{"id":2355,"date":"2021-04-11T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2021-04-10T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T16:34:12","slug":"the-middle-a-nice-place-to-visit-but-you-wouldnt-want-to-live-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/2021\/04\/11\/the-middle-a-nice-place-to-visit-but-you-wouldnt-want-to-live-there\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle &#8211; A nice place to visit but you wouldn&#8217;t want to live there"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Middle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice place to visit, but&#8230;  What is the middle?   Well, let me use it as a window to see something you normally wouldn&#8217;t.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bell Curve<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of this, yes?  Teachers sometimes grade &#8216;on a curve.&#8217;  I first learned about it many years ago playing Dungeons and Dragons.  #NERD.  It&#8217;s about probability, in which the majority of the stuff happens in the middle, the excellence and the really bad stuff are concentrated on either end.  Thus <em>the middle<\/em>.  But we are not talking about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creatives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Creatives who have to write an article, a book, or create a painting, etc. can sometimes get stuck.  They sometimes have to just do something else, because all the staring at the blank sheet of paper ain&#8217;t gonna produce anything.  They go &#8216;play&#8217; and then hopefully they can return to &#8216;work.&#8217;  You do the same when you take a break.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multitasking can sometimes be the middle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not going to say multitasking is a bad thing, but in can be.  As I have said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/2017\/06\/25\/multitasking-forgotten-glue\/\" title=\"Multitasking and the forgotten glue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Multitasking and the glue that holds it together<\/a> there is an aspect that requires you to spend <em>more<\/em> energy, and become <em>less<\/em> productive.  That&#8217;s not good, but it&#8217;s not exactly what we are talking about.  Listen to that podcast to learn even more. So what am I talking about? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing: <strong>if you are trying to work and play at the same time you have shoved yourself into the middle.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I&#8217;m talking about trying do live in the space between where you feel good about working, and feel good about playing, and then you end up feeling bad about both.  I expand on this greatly in the podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Commiting to playing <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Commiting to playing is just as important as committing to working.  When you overlap them, via eating at your desk, etc., then you are living in the middle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visiting is nice though<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Short visits to the middle can be nice.  it can be a way to hold things together, to overlap, and to feel some comfort when you need it.  But don&#8217;t live there.  <strong>If you make a commitment to one thing, it makes you value the other<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the podcast to get the complete picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Do you live in the middle?  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