{"id":1858,"date":"2015-01-29T01:49:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T06:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2015-01-12T08:55:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T13:55:18","slug":"tell-them-it-is-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/01\/tell-them-it-is-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Them it is Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Life is full of challenges and frustrations. Some of these are normal. When encountering normal with a person who has not encountered it before, explain to them that it is normal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I once tutored a young man through a frustrating process at work. In the middle of the pull-out-your-hair and smash-your-head-through-the-wall day, I told him, &#8220;This is normal. Expect it every time you do this. No one is picking on you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have found many frustrating experiences in life. Most of these are normal. No one was picking on me personally. They treated everyone badly all the time. Normal.<\/p>\n<p>It is so helpful to know that the situation is normal.<\/p>\n<p>Tell people,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the first draft being lousy IS NORMAL<\/li>\n<li>several heartbreaks before you find a spouse IS NORMAL<\/li>\n<li>most of life\u2019s disappointments and run-arounds and frustrating situations and people IS NORMAL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Work your way through the norm and keep going. That is easier on some days than it is on others, but that, too, IS NORMAL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Life is full of challenges and frustrations. Some of these are normal. When encountering normal with a person who has not encountered it before, explain to them that it is normal. I once tutored a young man through a frustrating process at work. In the middle of the pull-out-your-hair and smash-your-head-through-the-wall day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,107,90,63,20],"tags":[154,221,207,183,142],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-consulting","category-education","category-expectations","category-learning","tag-communication","tag-consulting","tag-education","tag-expectations","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}