by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We “just” … Nothing is easy. We might as well describe the situation as it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Everything is easy if someone else is supposed to do it. When I have to do it, not so easy. Yet, we describe things as easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll just do this and that and be done with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Substitute \u201cjust\u201d with \u201cstruggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Original: We\u2019ll just tell him that we don\u2019t want him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Revised: Well\u00a0struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to tell him that we don\u2019t want him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Original: We\u2019ll just move across the country and set up shop somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Revised: We\u2019ll struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to\u00a0move across the country and set up shop somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Original: We\u2019ll just hire a new builder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Revised: We\u2019ll struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to \u00a0hire a new builder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Original: We\u2019ll just start over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Revised: We\u2019ll struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to\u00a0start over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Original: I\u2019ll just write a blog post explaining how the word \u201cjust\u201d shouldn\u2019t be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Revised: I\u2019ll struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to\u00a0write a blog post explaining how the word \u201cjust\u201d shouldn\u2019t be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I could go on. Nothing is easy. Let’s be candid about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips We “just” … Nothing is easy. We might as well describe the situation as it is. Everything is easy if someone else is supposed to do it. When I have to do it, not so easy. Yet, we describe things as easy. We\u2019ll just do this and that and be done with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,105,286,63,312,66],"tags":[228,219,287,183,313,186],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic","category-competence","category-conversation","category-expectations","category-humility","category-word","tag-authentic","tag-competence","tag-conversation","tag-expectations","tag-humility","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","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=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}