{"id":638,"date":"2015-01-16T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T04:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=638"},"modified":"2015-01-16T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T04:18:43","slug":"jan-16-when-the-flow-changes-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 16 – When the Flow Changes Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today I had my whole day mapped out before I arrived at work.\u00a0 The items I wanted to accomplish had accumulated during the week.\u00a0 I only achieved 1 of the items on my list even though I worked the whole 8 hour shift. What happened to my master plan?\u00a0 Life happened when I needed to respond to new emergent items that I did not anticipate before they happened.<\/p>\n

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In chaplaincy that is how life is.\u00a0 We can have a list of worthwhile things we want to accomplish, but we have to practice triage when new items come along throughout the day.\u00a0 Today triage was the game I played.\u00a0 I was proud of myself because I did not let the change in plans sour my mood or frustrate me.\u00a0 I know I can only be in 1 place at 1 time, and as long as I was where I needed to be, it was not important if it where I envisioned being earlier.<\/p>\n

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That is one of the things that keeps chaplaincy \u201calive\u201d for me.\u00a0 It has a movement of its own often with surprising changes to the original plan for the day.\u00a0 The ability to handle change and not be thrown off by the change is a good skill to develop.\u00a0 Since I like variety it fits my personality very well. \u00a0The next time your day changes from how you thought it would be shaped don\u2019t feel like you are in that boat all alone, many others are in their boat experiencing the same thing.<\/p>\n

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Today I had my whole day mapped out before I arrived at work.\u00a0 The items I wanted to accomplish had accumulated during the week.\u00a0 I only achieved 1 of the items on my list even though I worked the whole 8 hour shift. What happened to my master plan?\u00a0 Life happened when I needed to … Continue reading Jan. 16 – When the Flow Changes Direction<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}