{"id":7416,"date":"2025-04-21T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:56:19","slug":"d-o-m-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7416","title":{"rendered":"D.O.M.E."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1&#8211; There comes a time when you can&#8217;t afford to waste what you have&#8212;your resources, your energy, your time, your mind, your emotions, your relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the same statement, with one word added and underlined:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2&#8211; There comes a time when you can&#8217;t afford to waste what you have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">left<\/span>&#8212;your resources, your energy, your time, your mind, your emotions, your relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we get older, we start facing that second statement, with the word, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">left<\/span>, because we must accept less in many areas.<br>The key is dealing with it without adding more stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For anyone out there who feels you&#8217;re losing it, a little or a lot,<br>we need the<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">D<\/span>epartment<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">O<\/span>f<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">M<\/span>ental<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">E<\/span>fficiency<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find waste, fraud, theft, inefficiency, in the use of mental energy, especially as the available supply becomes a premium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need D.O.M.E.<br>But who can we find to do what needs to be done&#8212;identify our unaffordable mental inefficiencies and give practical suggestions to address them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe it must be done.<br>I feel it can be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I&#8217;ll start writing notes when ideas come.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1&#8211; There comes a time when you can&#8217;t afford to waste what you have&#8212;your resources, your energy, your time, your mind, your emotions, your relationships. Now, the same statement, with one word added and underlined: 2&#8211; There comes a time when you can&#8217;t afford to waste what you have left&#8212;your resources, your energy, your time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-financial","category-health","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}