by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Sometimes we simply try too hard when applying what we already know in small doses suffices.<\/strong><\/p>\n It happened again the other day at work…<\/p>\n I needed to know something that I didn’t know. I rushed about frantically screaming to the moon, which is hard to do in the middle of a sunny day, for information. All I had to do was wait for someone to finish a task, wait a whole 15 minutes, and ask them. Instead, I racked my brains for an answer and shot my blood pressure up through the ceiling. I was trying really hard.<\/p>\n I see this all the time in others. I suspect I do it much too often as why would I be special. And on top of the average stuff, I know better. So what?<\/p>\n We want to do well. We try, we try, we try. We go the extra mile. Note that phrase and the word “extra.” Extra isn’t needed. Giving 110% isn’t needed. Those things are ego boosters. I pump out my puny chest and shout to the world, “Look how special I am! I work harder than the rest of you! Give me a blue ribbon!”<\/p>\n Stop. Breathe. Think. Do the simple things. Don’t try too hard. In my experience, life and work are better that way. The persons around me are happier, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we simply try too hard when applying what we already know in small doses suffices. It happened again the other day at work… I needed to know something that I didn’t know. I rushed about frantically screaming to the moon, which is hard to do in the middle of a sunny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,86,123,33,50],"tags":[120,203,124,155,172],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-breathe","category-group","category-health","category-thinking","tag-adults","tag-breathe","tag-group","tag-health","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}