{"id":3354,"date":"2026-09-15T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:45:17","slug":"week-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/week-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 &#8211; I feel like I am in complete control of my attention when I have less to stress about. Stress and tasks that I need to do tend to occupy my mind and can make it hard to focus. Also when I am in a low stimulating enviornment. Especially when it comes to school, overstimulating places make it hard for me to pay attention to the task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Pinterest helps me with my creative process and finding inspiration. I have used it for so many mediums, sewing projects, recipes, graphic design, to name a few. It can still be distracting since it is a platform that I can endlessly scroll on.<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Instagram is useful for staying updated on stuff going on locally in my circle and also worldwide. I think adding age restrictions to social media would be a good thing since there is a lot of dark content on there. Also less advertisements. Big corperations push these adds that not only overshadow small buisinesses, but also take up a lot of space on the feed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A big issue that bothers me in the American culture today is that good nutrition is hard to maintain. Food is getting recalled all the time. Food regulations are either not followed or not good enough, especially in comparison to other countries. To eat organic or trustworthy food is expensive and not always accessible to everyone. Low income familes, the working class or college students can&#8217;t always afford the time or money it costs to eat healthy. A good diet can improve your life so much. Because of these issues there&#8217;s also a great need for healthcare in America to treat weight related or weight caused issues. Not to mention how healthcare is not always accessible and incredibly expensive in this country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4 &#8211; 3 tips I do &#8211; No phone while working, Make focused work easier by removing distracting obstacles, and Take care of my &#8220;hardware&#8221;.\u00a0 3 tips I would try &#8211; Set limits on distracting apps, Take real breaks, and Work in timed focus blocks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 &#8211; I feel like I am in complete control of my attention when I have less to stress about. Stress and tasks that I need to do tend to occupy my mind and can make it hard to focus. Also when I am in a low stimulating enviornment. Especially when it comes to school, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-task"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}