It\u2019s over. The presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is mercifully over. Look, forget who won or lost, just for a moment. If your candidate won, you\u2019re still smiling and gloating. If your candidate lost, you\u2019re still researching real estate in Canada. I get it. It\u2019s been a tough one on all of us. It\u2019s been emotional. It\u2019s been trying. It\u2019s tested us, individually and as a nation. <\/p>\n
But mercifully \u2014\u00a0whether you won or lost \u2014\u00a0there is this: We can all start to get our lives back. <\/p>\n
This election has been all-consuming \u2014\u00a0as if the oxygen was sucked from the room. We spent the past year or two straining for breath. It\u2019s felt like that. Without making light of it \u2014\u00a0without trying to sweep under the rug what is a major victory for some and a difficult-to-heal loss for the rest \u2014\u00a0we at least don\u2019t have to listen to speeches anymore. <\/p>\n
So in the spirit of moving on \u2014\u00a0at your own pace \u2014\u00a0I suggest a few things to fill your time now that you don\u2019t have to worry about the election, or hanging on endless polls, or watching all those TV pundits you couldn\u2019t stand anyway. <\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Have a meal with your family where you actually feel present again \u2014 not worrying about this statement or that poll. We been so invested in this election that dinner conversation has become background noise. Something we\u2019ve heard, but not really taken part in. You know what? The most important words you hear should be the ones taking place right at your dining room table. Tune in to THAT.
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\u2022\u00a0Make a backyard fort for your kids with all the election signs piled up and littering the county. They should go to some good use. It\u2019s a great way to show that politics can come to something tangible. <\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Grow back all the hair you pulled out. Election night was tough, wasn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Get some sleep. I mean REAL sleep. Not the kind where you wake up in the middle of the night screaming, \u201cDid so-and-so win? Do I have to move to Canada? I don\u2019t even speak Canadian! Why didn\u2019t I take Canadian in school!?!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Get a new addiction. A useful one. Like basket weaving. Helping the elderly. Reading a book. Going out and making a difference in the world instead of expecting someone else to do it. You know what struck me about this election? That as a country we uniformly agreed on one thing: we were stuck with two weak candidates. A choice between worse and worse-er. But I know some pretty amazing people. America is filled with them. YOU are them. Get out there! Give us something to be excited about. Lead. Do good. Be better. <\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0And if all else fails, start worrying about the next election. Start reading endless polls and watching all those pundits you couldn\u2019t stand anyway. After all, it\u2019s only 4 years away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s over. The presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is mercifully over. Look, forget who won or lost, just for a moment. If your candidate won, you\u2019re still smiling and gloating. If your candidate lost, you\u2019re still researching real estate in Canada. I get it. It\u2019s been a tough one on all of us. It\u2019s been emotional. It\u2019s been trying. It\u2019s tested us, individually and as a nation. But mercifully \u2014\u00a0whether you won or lost \u2014\u00a0there is this: We can all start to get our lives back. This election has been all-consuming \u2014\u00a0as if the oxygen was sucked from the room. We spent the past year or two straining for breath. It\u2019s felt like that. Without making light of it \u2014\u00a0without trying to sweep under the rug what is a major victory for some and a difficult-to-heal loss for the rest \u2014\u00a0we at least don\u2019t have to listen to speeches anymore. So in the spirit of moving on \u2014\u00a0at your own pace \u2014\u00a0I suggest a few things to fill your time now that you don\u2019t have to worry about the election, or hanging on endless polls, or watching all those TV pundits you couldn\u2019t stand anyway. \u2022\u00a0Have a meal with your family where you actually feel present again \u2014 not worrying about this statement or that poll. We been so invested in this election that dinner conversation has become background noise. Something we\u2019ve heard, but not really taken part in. You know what? The most important words you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-nutshells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}