{"id":2352,"date":"2017-01-09T01:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2016-12-27T09:11:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:11:18","slug":"how-would-i-act-if-i-were-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/01\/how-would-i-act-if-i-were-a\/","title":{"rendered":"How would I Act if I were a&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to be something? Ask a simple question and live the answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty something years ago, Robin Williams was in the movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107614\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Mrs. Doubtfire<\/a>.&#8221; He impersonates a woman and gets a job as a nanny to his former wife so he can be near his children. He is the best, most fun, most wonderful person around kids since Julie Andrews in &#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; and &#8220;Mary Poppins&#8221; combined.<\/p>\n<p>He was a failed father. He became the best person to be near his kids. How? The movie doesn&#8217;t reveal it, but he asked the question, &#8220;If I was the best person to be with my kids, what would I do?&#8221; And then he did it.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I were a great people person, what would I do at this party?<\/li>\n<li>If I were a great supervisor, what would I do at work?<\/li>\n<li>If I were a great leader, what would I do?<\/li>\n<li>If I were a diligent writer, what would I do?<\/li>\n<li>If I were a great husband or wife, what would I do?<\/li>\n<li>If I were a great parent, what would I do?<\/li>\n<li>If I were a great news reporter, what clothes would I wear? How would I stand?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on and can include the one thing I want to be. I have yet to find an exception to this technique for better living.<\/p>\n<p>Ask. Answer seriously. Begin living\u2014better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Want to be something? Ask a simple question and live the answer. Twenty something years ago, Robin Williams was in the movie &#8220;Mrs. Doubtfire.&#8221; He impersonates a woman and gets a job as a nanny to his former wife so he can be near his children. He is the best, most fun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,51,247],"tags":[143,173,248],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-choose","category-questions","tag-change","tag-choose","tag-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}