{"id":690,"date":"2013-05-01T06:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickduffel.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2013-05-01T06:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:51:48","slug":"overwhelmed-from-the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"(Over)whelmed [from the archive]"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/buzzy-trent-woody-brown-george-downing.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-287 aligncenter\" alt=\"Buzzy-Trent-Woody-Brown-George-Downing\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/buzzy-trent-woody-brown-george-downing.jpg?resize=300%2C222\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/buzzy-trent-woody-brown-george-downing.jpg?w=378&amp;ssl=1 378w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/buzzy-trent-woody-brown-george-downing.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember this little\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RhUJe3vkLIs\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">gem<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0from\u00a0<em>10 Things I Hate About You<\/em>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed; but can you ever just be whelmed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you can in Europe\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m feeling pretty overwhelmed this week. \u00a0It\u2019s an over-used analogy, but I feel like I\u2019m just barely treading water as the ocean waves are beginning to swell over my head.<\/p>\n<p>But the more I think about it, I don\u2019t want calm waters so it\u2019s easier to swim. \u00a0No. \u00a0I want a surf board so I can ride these waves! \u00a0I think the water and waves are really about circumstances; which sometimes we can control, but often we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not I surf is about attitude. \u00a0That I CAN choose. \u00a0I can choose to take the waves as they come, ready or not, and make something out of them. \u00a0I can choose to bless every person I come in contact with, even if they are interrupting something \u201cimportant,\u201d or their presence in my day seems\u2013God forbid\u2013peripheral to me. \u00a0I can choose to lead and manage myself first, trusting God that other things will fall in line.<\/p>\n<p>I can choose.<\/p>\n<p>As my day is starting, I can see those waves coming. \u00a0Time to surf!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this little\u00a0gem\u00a0from\u00a010 Things I Hate About You? \u201cI know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed; but can you ever just be whelmed?\u201d \u201cI think you can in Europe\u2026\u201d I\u2019m feeling pretty overwhelmed this week. \u00a0It\u2019s an over-used analogy, but I feel like I\u2019m just barely treading water as the ocean waves&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=690\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Over)whelmed [from the archive]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[70,78,84,133,146,183,184],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-2","category-leadership-wednesday","tag-failure","tag-focus","tag-god","tag-people","tag-productivity","tag-stress","tag-success"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-b8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}