{"id":26,"date":"2024-03-16T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2024-03-16T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:09:30","slug":"professional-vs-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/16\/professional-vs-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional vs. Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The distinction between personal and professional is difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On one hand, it takes passion and conviction and a very strong personal work ethic to succeed at anything that is challenging enough to draw interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But heaping personal emotion on a business situation is not just not desirable, it can be a sign of a lack of control, which can be &#8212; should be &#8212; worrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finding the balance, knowing how to draw on reserves of grit while keeping hard-headed about facts and probabilities, is one area of business and pursuit of complex goals that come only with experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you define &#8220;Professional?&#8221;  &#8220;Personal?&#8221;  What blend is important to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distinction between personal and professional is difficult. On one hand, it takes passion and conviction and a very strong personal work ethic to succeed at anything that is challenging enough to draw interest. But heaping personal emotion on a business situation is not just not desirable, it can be a sign of a lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,7,8],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-balance","tag-personal","tag-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothymwalter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}