{"id":12331,"date":"2019-07-20T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12331"},"modified":"2019-07-20T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:03:59","slug":"book-review-juliets-school-of-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12331","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Juliet&#8217;s School of Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Juliets-School-Possibilities-Little-Priorities\/dp\/0525538941\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2WY8COXYMJCOH&amp;keywords=laura+vanderkam&amp;qid=1563659981&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=laura+vand%2Caps%2C139&amp;sr=1-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12332 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/juliets-school-of-possibilities.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/juliets-school-of-possibilities.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/juliets-school-of-possibilities-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/juliets-school-of-possibilities-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/juliets-school-of-possibilities-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Juliets-School-Possibilities-Little-Priorities\/dp\/0525538941\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2WY8COXYMJCOH&amp;keywords=laura+vanderkam&amp;qid=1563659981&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=laura+vand%2Caps%2C139&amp;sr=1-2\"><em>Juliet&#8217;s School of Possibilities<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/lauravanderkam.com\/\">Laura Vanderkam<\/a> is one of the best books I&#8217;ve read in a while.\u00a0 A friend recommended it after he read it and I&#8217;m so glad he did!\u00a0 Just a few chapters in, I stopped for a quick break to delete my work email off my phone.\u00a0 I&#8217;m four days into this new email habit&#8230;and I&#8217;m super grateful for the space it&#8217;s created.\u00a0 That might not be a big deal to you, but that was one thing I decided to &#8220;choose well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I highlighted several things while reading and posted those notes below&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>I cannot do everything, so I do what I find most meaningful and enjoyable to myself and the people I care about.\u201d Location 377<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\u201cOf all the things you\u2019ve done in your life, what are you most proud of?\u201d Location 519<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\u201cOur actions determine our courses. How we live our hours is how we live our lives.\u201d Location 532<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Rushing just made me feel rushed. Telling myself I had no time made me feel like I had no time. When I told myself I had time for what mattered, something did change. Location 669<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Expectations are infinite. Time is finite. You are always choosing. Choose well. Location 689<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juliet&#8217;s School of Possibilities by Laura Vanderkam is one of the best books I&#8217;ve read in a while.\u00a0 A friend recommended it after he read it and I&#8217;m so glad he did!\u00a0 Just a few chapters in, I stopped for a quick break to delete my work email off my phone.\u00a0 I&#8217;m four days into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,16,23,28,17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-creative","category-family","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-leadership","category-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}