{"id":1972,"date":"2016-07-19T05:05:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2016-07-19T05:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T12:09:41","slug":"im-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150117.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1973\" \/><\/a>I scored highest on Zimbardo\u2019s future time perspective. According to him, futures are planners, keep to-do lists and balance their checkbooks (yep, that\u2019s me).<\/p>\n<p>We exercise regularly and are more likely to get yearly medical checkups. Because we sacrifice present gratification for future reward, we succeed academically.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, futures are hopeful (that&#8217;s why we believe in the future).<\/p>\n<p>The Negatives\u2014we futures don\u2019t help others as much as \u201cpresents\u201d do (have the inclination but not the time). And we tend to be workaholics, giving less time to leisure activities, including vacations. Thus, futures can carry a lot of stress.<\/p>\n<p>So my goals are these: Try to live more in the present, and use my future orientation to plan, work and dream, but not to stress and worry.<\/p>\n<p>Sure Mike, good luck with that.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Tomorrow we will have a driveway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I scored highest on Zimbardo\u2019s future time perspective. According to him, futures are planners, keep to-do lists and balance their checkbooks (yep, that\u2019s me). We exercise regularly and are more likely to get yearly medical checkups. Because we sacrifice present gratification for future reward, we succeed academically. Most importantly, futures are hopeful (that&#8217;s why we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}