{"id":3548,"date":"2022-01-06T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2021-12-06T08:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:22:50","slug":"i-said-that-last-week-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/01\/i-said-that-last-week-too\/","title":{"rendered":"I Said that Last Week, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Common thoughts foretell a general consensus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone tells me something. Wait, I said that last week when talking to yet another person. Wait, two independent conversations with different audiences, and the same idea is stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a trend here. A consensus is forming. Perhaps great minds think alike (wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if that were true). Perhaps it is all just an accident, and we should go on and forget it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my experience, this is an opportunity that I have neglected too often. Sometimes different persons in different situations have the same idea. Momentum is building. If I like the idea, I should keep it going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We don&#8217;t have to talk bad about the person who is not in the room<\/li><li>We don&#8217;t have to let work expand to the time allotted<\/li><li>We don&#8217;t have to let things be the way they have always been<\/li><li>We can change<\/li><li>We can do something that makes a difference<\/li><li>We can continue this list for a long time<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seize the moment. Seize the momentum. Keep a good idea moving. And always give credit to the person who repeated your good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Common thoughts foretell a general consensus. Someone tells me something. Wait, I said that last week when talking to yet another person. Wait, two independent conversations with different audiences, and the same idea is stated. There is a trend here. A consensus is forming. Perhaps great minds think alike (wouldn&#8217;t it be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,43,398,108,253],"tags":[154,165,222,254],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-ideas","category-practice","category-reaction","category-synergy","tag-communication","tag-ideas","tag-reaction","tag-synergy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","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=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}