{"id":3803,"date":"2023-01-12T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T21:36:03","slug":"one-thing-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/01\/one-thing-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"One Thing at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to you accomplish a big task? One thing at a time. Sorry, I wish there were magic here, but I have yet to see any of that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently removed 6,000 pounds of items from a home. Given each item weighed half a pound on average, that is &#8230; a whole lotta&#8217; items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you remove 10,000 or 20,000 items? One at a time. Pick up one item. Remove it. Repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There must be a better way. If there is, I have yet to find it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was in the third of four semesters of Calculus in college a few decades ago. The professor explained it something like, &#8220;We take a problem we don&#8217;t know how to solve, break it down into parts that we don&#8217;t know how to solve, and repeat this until we have problems we do know how to solve. Then we start solving.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This approach of break-it-down and do one thing at a time worked then, it has worked over the decades, and it still works. Seemingly impossible tasks are possible. How do you write 1,526 blog posts? One keystroke at a time. How do you remove 20,000 items? One item at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magic? I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips How to you accomplish a big task? One thing at a time. Sorry, I wish there were magic here, but I have yet to see any of that. I recently removed 6,000 pounds of items from a home. Given each item weighed half a pound on average, that is &#8230; a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,48,30,53,42,337],"tags":[294,170,152,174,164,338],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts","category-general-systems-thinking","category-lifecycle","category-problems","category-process","category-solutions","tag-concepts","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-lifecycle","tag-problems","tag-process","tag-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}