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I sometimes make small bargains with myself to keep focused on the things that are important to me (and to reign in my time-wasters).\u00a0 One such bargain is that I often set is that I won’t peer into Facebook until I’ve finished reading my current book.\u00a0 So I’m up to that again, and have promised myself to finish Christina Lamb’s Farewell Kabul<\/a>, which I picked up in the airport last week.\u00a0 It’s a pretty dense read, but is fascinating.\u00a0 I am learning so much.<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>(photo is of my new Little Free Library, where I can pass along all of the awesome books that I read, to others!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sometimes make small bargains with myself to keep focused on the things that are important to me (and to reign in my time-wasters).\u00a0 One such bargain is that I often set is that I won’t peer into Facebook until I’ve finished reading my current book.\u00a0 So I’m up to that again, and have promised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-deep-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"\nbargains with myself - PilgrimSteps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2016\/06\/26\/bargains-with-myself\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"bargains with myself - 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