{"id":272,"date":"2017-08-10T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2017-08-10T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:50:48","slug":"walking-on-the-beach-and-calling-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Walking on the beach and calling it work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/walking-on-the-beach-871297516032sFP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/walking-on-the-beach-871297516032sFP-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/walking-on-the-beach-871297516032sFP-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/walking-on-the-beach-871297516032sFP-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I love the beach.\u00a0 Whatever the season I find it one of the most relaxing places to be and I know, from the many people who I see there, that I am not alone.<\/p>\n<p>For me it is\u00a0a great &#8216;thinking place&#8217; with ideas or solutions seeming to come more easily\u00a0during a long walk by the sea on a blustery winters day, or a gentle stroll along the sand on a sunlit summer&#8217;s evening.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds idyllic, but isn&#8217;t that just for holidays? We can often feel guilty if we take time away from the immediate pressures and demands of the &#8216;day job&#8217; to spend time just thinking and processing, but such time can be some of the most productive, in terms of the longer term plans and developments for your organisation.<\/p>\n<p>My encouragement is that whether as teams or individuals, you regularly schedule in time away; giving yourselves the\u00a0space to consider the bigger picture or\u00a0look for solutions to\u00a0the knottier problems your organisation faces.<\/p>\n<p>If you need someone to help you or your organisation as you do that, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?page_id=8\">contact me<\/a>, particularly if it involves a seaside location!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the beach.\u00a0 Whatever the season I find it one of the most relaxing places to be and I know, from the many people who I see there, that I am not alone. For me it is\u00a0a great &#8216;thinking place&#8217; with ideas or solutions seeming to come more easily\u00a0during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charities","category-churches","category-organisational-development","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}