{"id":163,"date":"2020-05-15T14:26:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.jomec.co.uk\/life360\/?p=163"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:01:17","slug":"have-we-quarantined-ourselves-with-productivity-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/have-we-quarantined-ourselves-with-productivity-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Have we quarantined ourselves with productivity guilt?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The world has been infected and halted our society as we know it. Yet, our hyper-capitalist mindset lives on.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a desk with books and a laptop\" class=\"wp-image-1154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited-770x547.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited-293x208.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a desk with books and a laptop\" class=\"wp-image-1154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited-770x547.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Feature-Photo-edited-293x208.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Do we need to force productivity on ourselves?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Bryony opens her eyes; the sun is shining through her blinds in her ground-floor window. She looks at her phone, it is 9:30 am, and it is time to get up. She forcefully sits up from the bed, \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll start today,\u201d she thinks to herself. Bryony needs to be productive and get a new job, as she lost her previous livelihood to a microscopic parasite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The small parasite which was only but a faint echo that rung from the east in early December 2019. Has now blown into a full global pandemic that has paralysed the world. Country after country was forced to impose strict lockdown measures on its citizens, inevitably, altering everyone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel like time is going really fast even though everything is stood still\u201d sights Bryony, \u201cSo I force myself to wake up at 9:30 am these days then I take my run and then all of a sudden its bedtime!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"422\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Bryony-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Bryony-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Bryony-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Bryony-1-293x190.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Bryony-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Bryony-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Bryony-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Bryony-1-293x190.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Bryony  finds some comfort that not everyone is making sourdough and achieving their life\u2019s dreams during lockdown <br>Photo Credit: Bryony Adams <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bryony Adams, 27, lives in a shared house in the suburban area of Adamstown in Cardiff. Two months ago, she was going to work, going out, socialising, and plodding along with her day-to-day life. But now, Bryony is confined within her four walls, trying to be as productive as she can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy productivity is awful\u201d she exclaims, \u201cI find it really difficult at the minute. I need to be doing job applications and it\u2019s really important that I do it, but I just can\u2019t bring myself to do it.\u201d At the beginning of the lockdown, she was still employed but was eventually let go as her project was put on hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the lockdown, she has time to work on job applications, but she struggles. \u201cI feel constant guilt, but I trick myself into thinking \u2018it\u2019s okay behaviour until I try to sleep at night and that\u2019s when she gets me!\u201d Bryony sighs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>All other desire to achieve has gone out the window<\/p><cite>Bryony Adams<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, she keeps herself busy with fitness and diet. \u201cI feel like it, cause that\u2019s the only thing I have control over at the minute.\u201d She says as she is getting ready to go out for her daily run and adds: \u201cthat and making my bed, I make sure I do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Productivity is a tool for control <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Control is perhaps what is our antidote to these uncertain times that we are in, according to Adam Print, a life coach and founder of Enhance Coaching in Cardiff. He explains that: because people are suddenly out of a routine. The ability to tick things off lists and to achieve tasks is somehow putting them in the driver\u2019s seat again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing productive and assemblance is a way of some form of control,\u201d Adam explains from his kitchen. \u201cPeople have a preference in being in a routine and creating rules and putting pressure on themselves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf people just focus on what is under their control, they will be able to drop a lot of stuff, because so much of this, is worrying about things that they don\u2019t have any control over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15325024.2014.949161?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true&amp;instName=Cardiff+University\">Research<\/a> confirms this notion. A study revealed that if we focus on what we can control, presently. It led to better adjustments under stressful and traumatic events. This is what&#8217;s called &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/316747941_Perceived_control\/link\/5910911a0f7e9bfa06960bb6\/download\">Perceived control<\/a>&#8216;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam has 15 years of experience coaching in a wide variety of industries. Specialised in both personal development and career support, he has worked with numerous clients. Many who have experienced a high demand for achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"324\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print-293x146.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Adam-Print-293x146.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Adam Print, founder of Enhance Coaching <br>Photo Credit: Enhance Coaching  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe focus so much on productivity anyway,\u201d Adam explains, \u201cpeople are already in the mindset that they got to achieve this, got to do this and having done this to be satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He elaborates: \u201ceverything people try and achieve, they target it as it is black and white, but the world is grey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>We are programmed to &#8216;do&#8217; rather than think and we are feeling guilty when we are not &#8216;doing&#8217;.<\/p><cite>Adam Print<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam believes the difference between our pre-lockdown achievement-expectations and what we expect from ourselves now, is \u2018more time\u2019. \u201cEspecially at the beginning of lockdown, people thought I got all this time, I must be able to do this, I should do this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Should we be encouraged to be productive or should we reflect?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no hiding from the fact that this pandemic has had a huge impact on people&#8217;s mental health. Millions of people are facing economic turmoil, uncertainty, fear and distress by physical isolation. While others are afraid of the infection itself, according to a recent World Health Organisation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/05\/united-nations-global-mental-health-crisis-covid19-pandemic\">report<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So endorsed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/covid-19-guidance-for-the-public-on-mental-health-and-wellbeing\/guidance-for-the-public-on-the-mental-health-and-wellbeing-aspects-of-coronavirus-covid-19\">UK government<\/a>, by engaging in activities and learning new skills; is a way to look after our own wellbeing. However, if taken too seriously, the cultural obsession with capitalistic productivity hijacks us. Evidence of this fact is circulating on social media, a motivational post, that is meant to inspire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you don\u2019t come out of this quarantine with either:<br><br>1.) a new skill<br>2.) starting what you\u2019ve been putting off like a new business<br>3.) more knowledge <br><br>You didn\u2019t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline<\/p>&mdash; Jeremy Haynes (@TheJeremyHaynes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJeremyHaynes\/status\/1245767684484202496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>One of many &#8216;motivational&#8217; messages that has sparked a debate about how much we need to succumb to &#8216;capitalist productivity&#8217; source: Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not helpful,\u201d says Adam, he had also been a witness to this tweet, he clarifies \u201cit is good for people to be encouraged to do something with their time, but what this [tweet] is not allowing people to do, is having space to think and process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, understandably, we have perhaps not given ourselves the time to do this. We are, after all, grieving the loss of a way of life; we are collectively going through a trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 100%\"><div style=\"padding-bottom: 45.666666666666664%;padding-top: 0;height: 0\"><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"1200\" height=\"345\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/view.genial.ly\/5ebe19878e243b0d5a32b00b\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"1200\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/view.genial.ly\/5ebe19878e243b0d5a32b00b\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\"><\/iframe><\/noscript> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAccepting big changes is like grief really, we go through a cycle,\u201d he says whiles eagerly demonstrating the Kubler-Ross grief curb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, with motivational messages such as this, Adam believes it is pushing the notion that we have to go straight from denial to acceptance, without any processing. This is what creates more pressure and allowing the guilt to consume us if we do not achieve through productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut\u201d he adds, \u201cthis depends on the person, because, that tweet works for me, I do have more time and I have things I want to.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is not alone in this thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">About 400 miles further north, Wenxian is sitting on her couch in her rented flat in Edinburgh. She is sipping her newly brewed tea, whilst her laptop is slowly turning on. This is yet another day she spends inside her flat; another day she spends in front of the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wenxian Mu, 24, living in Edinburgh and a former Sociology student at the University of Edinburgh. She was enjoying her gap year when the pandemic suddenly slammed the breaks on everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am doing something [activities] not because I want to be productive, I just want something to do, something to occupy my mind,\u201d she explains. Wenxian has accepted her new lifestyle, but it wasn\u2019t straight forward, it was a rollercoaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized-293x196.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-reading-Sized-293x196.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Wenxian is one of many that has been forced to rethink how she spends her days. <br>Photo Credit: Wenxian Mu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI went through the emotional part,\u201d she admits whilest sipping her tea, \u201cin the beginning I was in a really miserable emotional place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only was the uncertainty in her life down to the lockdown, but also down to where she would go. Initially, her flight was booked to go back home to China, but this was cancelled last minute. So, she had to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, I started to accept my new situation, and make new plans for myself,\u201d she says. She eventually moved to a new flat in Edinburgh, which gave her more space and fuelled her productivity spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Weinxian-sitting-on-her-computer-resized-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Wenxian spend much of her time educating herself about art, she has more time on her hand to be productive.  <br>Photo Credit: Wenxian Mu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">An eager learner: she studies French, read journals, writes articles, draws, and dances. \u201cI tell myself, that I have to do three things per day, like an hour each,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a coping mechanism for her, a form of control, \u201cyou are like a computer and it\u2019s like you are writing a code for yourself,\u201d she muses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also does not seem to be putting herself under the same amount of pressure as some do, yet she does not escape the \u2018guilt\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI do sometimes feel a little bit guilty\u201d she laughs, \u201cJust enjoy your day, I always think, even if I don\u2019t think I follow my schedule today, I will do it tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>I am the director of what I want to do.<\/p><cite>Wenxian Mu<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She gives herself a day or two off, then she resumes her carefully structured daily plan. Wenxian proudly declares: \u201cI don\u2019t complain about what I have to do. I just feel like this is something I want to do\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps this self-declared pressure and our inner critic that screams at us, when we have &#8220;failed to meet our goals, is over the top?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFocus on progress rather than achievements\u201d nods Adam, \u201cstop focusing on achievements being a success,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDirect your attention on the progress you have made, this measured success and you will be moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These comforting considerations would perhaps be beneficial for Bryony, now back from her daily jog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She hopes once this pandemic is over, productivity will be resumed: \u201cI\u2019m just waiting for that day where I can sit at my laptop and bash out all these job applications, but perhaps, now you\u2019ve made me think about it &#8211; I wasn\u2019t that productive in that area beforehand,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaybe I can become a professional dancer,&#8221; she muses. &#8220;Although I\u2019ve not been productive in terms of applying for jobs, I\u2019ve certainly done a lot of dancing around my room. Just hope my neighbours like Prince, that\u2019s all I can say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/821038678%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-AoeRPKmf3RH&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/821038678%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-AoeRPKmf3RH&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\n\n\n<p>Life coach Adam Print shares top tips on avoiding feeling guilt during for not meeting your inner-critic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has been infected and halted our society as we know it. 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