{"id":3644,"date":"2022-05-12T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2022-04-24T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T14:49:11","slug":"the-tyranny-of-the-urgent-vs-the-primacy-of-the-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/05\/the-tyranny-of-the-urgent-vs-the-primacy-of-the-relevant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tyranny of The Urgent vs The Primacy of The Relevant\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is urgent and what is relevant often do not match. Should I balance them or is that not relevant?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are you saying or doing today? Is that the most urgent thing you can say or do today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, but we have a plan. We are working towards something big, we cannot allow the urgent to rule us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what about relevance? Where are we today? What are we doing today? Are our actions serving our needs and situations today? What is relevant? Let&#8217;s be and do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And how do we balance these? There is something that is needful today, right now. It is both relevant and urgent. Let\u2019s do it now. Or is it relevant? My teenager needs counseling on college and career and happiness. Our dinner is burning in the oven. My teenager\u2019s life is more important, more relevant \u2026 sorry, gotta\u2019 pull dinner out of the over and baste it and cool it and \u2026 what was I talking about? Was I talking to someone? I\u2019m the only person in the kitchen. What just happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is relevant and what is urgent often do not match. I can\u2019t let dinner burn. The lives of my children are primary. Tonight\u2019s ham is not, but I cannot let \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This should be simpler, right? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dwayne Phillips What is urgent and what is relevant often do not match. Should I balance them or is that not relevant? What are you saying or doing today? Is that the most urgent thing you can say or do today? No, but we have a plan. We are working towards something big, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,269,474,473],"tags":[173,270,476,475],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-decide","category-relevant","category-urgent","tag-choose","tag-decide","tag-relevant","tag-urgent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","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=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}