<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" border="0" alt="" align="left" />Life is a marathon, not a sprint; however, there are times &#8212; even in a marathon &#8212; when sprinting is required.</p>
<p>Most of us here in the 21st Century have very complex professional and personal lives.  Our ancestors often went to work and did one thing at a set pace all day.  Then they went home to enjoy their families only to go back to work and do the same thing the following day.   <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/03/pacing-your-day-and-life-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: Pacing Your Day and Life By Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":590,"date":"2011-03-16T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2012-07-24T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T16:37:32","slug":"pacing-your-day-and-life-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/03\/pacing-your-day-and-life-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacing Your Day and Life By Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-stovall-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>Life is a marathon, not a sprint; however, there are times &#8212; even in a marathon &#8212; when sprinting is required.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us here in the 21st Century have very complex professional and personal lives.  Our ancestors often went to work and did one thing at a set pace all day.  Then they went home to enjoy their families only to go back to work and do the same thing the following day.   <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/03\/pacing-your-day-and-life-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Pacing Your Day and Life By Jim Stovall\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}