{"id":3162,"date":"2020-07-09T01:38:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2020-07-13T05:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T10:14:31","slug":"perspective-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/07\/perspective-urgency\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective Urgency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is urgent. Is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">adjective: urgent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(of a state or situation) requiring immediate action or attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immediate attention. Do it right now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is a relative statement. Someone else tells me, &#8220;Do it before doing these other things on this list that someone has created. I deem this more important than those.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah, now we are getting somewhere. This is about the other person and their perspective on the world. And they have decided what I should do, now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a different perspective. I have a different list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If my salary depends on me doing what the other person says, and this item isn&#8217;t going to betray my ethics or in some way ruin my life, then okay, I will do this thing first, right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otherwise, I will act from my perspective and choose what I believe to be important or urgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips This is urgent. Is it? adjective: urgent (of a state or situation) requiring immediate action or attention. Immediate attention. Do it right now! That is a relative statement. Someone else tells me, &#8220;Do it before doing these other things on this list that someone has created. I deem this more important than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,10],"tags":[173,133],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-people","tag-choose","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","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=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}