{"id":16826,"date":"2026-08-28T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16826"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:24:30","slug":"lazy-anxious-take-the-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16826","title":{"rendered":"Lazy? Anxious? Take the first step"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI find if I\u2019m stressed about something it\u2019s usually because I\u2019m not doing anything about it. I\u2019m listening to my body as a signal that something is wrong, and I find that the stress goes away the second I take the first step.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/amazon-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0founder Jeff Bezos\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7quzqqnz13s\">said<\/a>\u00a0in 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/02\/25\/jeff-bezos-leadership-advice-handling-anxiety-stress-working-harder\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/02\/25\/jeff-bezos-leadership-advice-handling-anxiety-stress-working-harder\/\">during a visit to the Museum of Flight in Seattle<\/a>.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI find if I\u2019m stressed about something it\u2019s usually because I\u2019m not doing anything about it. I\u2019m listening to my body as a signal that something is wrong, and I find that the stress goes away the second I take the first step.\u201d \u00a0Amazon\u00a0founder Jeff Bezos\u00a0said\u00a0in 2017 during a visit to the Museum of Flight in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4no","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16827,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions\/16827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}