{"id":537,"date":"2012-11-02T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:30:26","slug":"the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"the war"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
:: You versus the Army of Bad Habits ::<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whether you recognize it or not, you\u2019re at war.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not a conventional war:<\/p>\n

The battle lines change every day.\u00a0 The warzone is rarely defined.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the enemy is very clearly in front of you, pummeling you with everything\u00a0they've\u00a0got; other times, the enemy is lurking in the shadows right beside you, waiting for a moment of weakness before they attack.<\/p>\n

And your allies\u00a0aren't\u00a0who you would expect \u2013 but they\u2019re more powerful than you realize.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The warzone is not your physical environment \u2013 although the physical environment can help (or hinder) your campaign.<\/p>\n

The enemy is not a person \u2013 in fact, the enemy is nothing external at all.<\/p>\n

And your allies are not your friends or family, nor are they the people in the cubicle next to you at work.<\/p>\n

This is a war fought in the neural trenches of your brain. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The enemy is the army of bad habits\u00a0<\/strong>you've\u00a0accumulated over the year \u2013 building and expanding its empire one brain-map territory at a time.<\/p>\n

Your allies, if you choose to call upon them, are the virtuous<\/strong> and productive<\/strong> thoughts you put into your mind; they will support you when you are weak, and help you expand your territory when you are strong.<\/p>\n

And you are the insurgent<\/a> <\/strong>because you seek change<\/strong>, you desire improvement<\/strong>, and you want to build<\/strong> something<\/strong> of value<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You are outnumbered and outgunned.<\/p>\n

The enemy controls nearly all brain map territory.<\/p>\n

Your allies can help, but they can't fight the battle themselves; they need you to lead.<\/p>\n

Will you choose to fight? \u00a0Will you lead? \u00a0Will you instigate?<\/p>\n

You're at war whether you\u00a0recognize\u00a0it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether you recognize it or not, you\u2019re at war. This is not a conventional war: The battle lines change every day.\u00a0 The warzone is rarely defined. Sometimes the enemy is very clearly in front of you, pummeling you with everything\u00a0they've\u00a0got; other times, the enemy is lurking in the shadows right beside you, waiting for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[248,268,278,301,341,425,432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommorkes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}