{"id":274,"date":"2009-11-09T01:54:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T06:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-11-05T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:12:14","slug":"life-on-the-road-life-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2009\/11\/life-on-the-road-life-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on the Road; Life at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n

Traveling – living in and out of motels – is different from living in a home. This differences points to lessons that can improve home life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I recently spent five weeks on the road<\/a>. Motel after motel, night after night. In the past, I have had jobs where I traveled two and sometimes three weeks a month. Motel after motel, week after week. During these periods of travel, I noticed something about myself:<\/p>\n

I acted differently while on the road<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I,<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. lived slower<\/li>\n
  2. wasn’t rushing in and out of stores<\/li>\n
  3. held doors open for more people<\/li>\n
  4. took the time to smile more<\/li>\n
  5. treasured my family more<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As a logical person (engineer), I could find good reasons for these things. Basically, while on the road I don’t have to do or assist with many time-consuming household tasks like cooking, cleaning, shopping, cutting the grass, and so on. Of course I could take more time to enjoy life and people.<\/p>\n

    Those logical reasons are also conscious-soothing excuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Recently, I saw a blog post about making a home office look like a motel room<\/a>. Hmm. This person changed his home to reflect some of the benefits of traveling. Perhaps I could do the same. Perhaps I could reduce my attention to, i.e. not worry so much about<\/em>, the day-to-day maintenance activities of home life and enjoy life and people more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    by Dwayne Phillips Traveling – living in and out of motels – is different from living in a home. This differences points to lessons that can improve home life. I recently spent five weeks on the road. Motel after motel, night after night. In the past, I have had jobs where I traveled two and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[143,139],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-culture","tag-change","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}