{"id":296,"date":"2010-02-10T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:40:00","slug":"sweater-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Sweater Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n

Yesterday I shared the following post on Facebook:<\/p>\n

“Celia McBride wants you to know that hand-washing your cashmere sweaters can actually boost your self-esteem.”<\/p>\n

Was I being facetious? Not entirely.<\/p>\n

Sweaters love me and I love sweaters. I actually wear sweaters in July, much to the chagrin of my t-shirt loving girlfriends. Some of my sweaters need hand-washing and, like vacuuming (see earlier post)<\/a>, I will put this task off for as long as humanly possible.<\/p>\n

A few days ago I finally started taking action to wash the four sweaters that so badly needed it. I told myself I could tackle the job one sweater at a time. And that is what I did. In baby steps.<\/p>\n

First sweater came out of the closet and onto the chair. Then into the kitchen. Then into a pot with soap. Let it soak. That evening scrubbed and rinsed and hung to dry. Why not number two? Out of the closet, directly into the pot, repeat.<\/p>\n

Four days later and the last one has been soaking overnight in the pot and will be hung to dry today. Not exactly OHIO<\/a>, but progress, friends, not perfection.<\/p>\n

Where does the self-esteem part come in? Well, after sweater number two, I felt good about myself<\/i> for having done the thing I was avoiding. My energy shifted. I experienced satisfaction and pleasure knowing the job was getting done and I had taken the action necessary to do it. <\/p>\n

Bonus track: four clean sweaters!<\/p>\n

Inspiring Message of the Day: We can feel good about ourselves by accomplishing the simplest of tasks. Today I will take on a simple task in order to boost my self-esteem and feel the joy of accomplishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers, Yesterday I shared the following post on Facebook: “Celia McBride wants you to know that hand-washing your cashmere sweaters can actually boost your self-esteem.” Was I being facetious? Not entirely. Sweaters love me and I love sweaters. I actually wear sweaters in July, much to the chagrin of my t-shirt loving girlfriends. Some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-your-self-esteem","category-inspiration","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}