{"id":2669,"date":"2018-05-28T01:30:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T06:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2018-05-12T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T14:36:47","slug":"improve-what-you-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/05\/improve-what-you-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve What You Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confronted with a big mess? What do you fix first? What order? Try this suggestion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I once entered a job where everything was a mess. Chaos? Well, I won&#8217;t write that chaos reigned as that implies there was some order someplace. I found none.<\/p>\n<p>It was a mess, where to start? I started with what I was touching at the moment. Something popped up, I fixed it. Then I improved what was connected to it.<\/p>\n<p>There, it was better than I found it. What do I do next? What I do next, that\u2019s what. Pretty soon I had time to go looking for something to fix.<\/p>\n<p>Simple? Yes. Works? Yes. Easy? No. It is much easier to be frustrated. It is much easier to be paralyzed. It is much easier to be demoralized.<\/p>\n<p>Just improve the one thing you are touching right now. Later, do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Confronted with a big mess? What do you fix first? What order? Try this suggestion. I once entered a job where everything was a mess. Chaos? Well, I won&#8217;t write that chaos reigned as that implies there was some order someplace. I found none. It was a mess, where to start? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,316,67],"tags":[240,317,187],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-improvement","category-work","tag-analysis","tag-improvement","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","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=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}