{"id":2401,"date":"2017-03-20T01:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2017-03-11T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T15:14:07","slug":"in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/03\/in-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have seen this in people often, especially when looking in the mirror.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not off to a good start, but let&#8217;s try to pull something useful from this.<\/p>\n<p>We all tend to do what we like and avoid what we don&#8217;t like. Not surprising. I like ice cream. I hate paper cuts. My following actions are obvious.<\/p>\n<p>I like solving some types of problems over others. Again, my following actions are obvious.<\/p>\n<p>So what to do with all these meta-obvious-ness? Here are some things I have told myself to push me into the less-liked actions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is your job. You are paid to do it. Do it.<\/li>\n<li>The longer you delay, the more it will hurt.<\/li>\n<li>Surprise yourself and do it, you might actually learn something.<\/li>\n<li>Well, we&#8217;re waiting&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are other things I tell myself. The list could continue, and it will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I have seen this in people often, especially when looking in the mirror. Not off to a good start, but let&#8217;s try to pull something useful from this. We all tend to do what we like and avoid what we don&#8217;t like. Not surprising. I like ice cream. I hate paper cuts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,21,51,18],"tags":[120,143,173,140],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-change","category-choose","category-employment","tag-adults","tag-change","tag-choose","tag-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","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=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}