{"id":8647,"date":"2021-09-14T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=8647"},"modified":"2021-09-14T23:30:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:30:34","slug":"investment-or-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/investment-or-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment or Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes I feel like a broken record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m exhausted.  SO exhausted! ALWAYS EXHAUSTED!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_8584.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_8584.jpeg?resize=511%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8649\" width=\"511\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_8584.jpeg?resize=1021%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1021w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_8584.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_8584.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_8584.jpeg?resize=768%2C770&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_8584.jpeg?w=1125&amp;ssl=1 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 85vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, we are focusing  a lot of our energy on our business and  I understand that I&#8217;m working hard towards a goal; but I&#8217;m a firm believer in working smarter and not harder and yet I feel like I&#8217;m just working as hard as I can to just not drown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I struggle with is working so hard, for so long, that I end up feeling like I can barely function. This is kind of where I&#8217;m at right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I boil it all down, I think I&#8217;m talking about trying to find balance.  At this exact moment, I&#8217;m definitely way beyond actually &#8220;living in balance&#8221;; but where do you draw the line between investment and insanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s stupid to think that I can &#8220;invest&#8221; at this level for the next few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So where do I go from here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is one of the big questions in my mind, these days; and I don&#8217;t know that I have a quick or easy answer for myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I feel like a broken record. I&#8217;m exhausted. SO exhausted! ALWAYS EXHAUSTED! it sucks. Right now, we are focusing a lot of our energy on our business and I understand that I&#8217;m working hard towards a goal; but I&#8217;m a firm believer in working smarter and not harder and yet I feel like I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/investment-or-insanity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Investment or Insanity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,5,16,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-life","category-me","category-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}