{"id":4560,"date":"2026-02-19T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:16:52","slug":"working-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/02\/working-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There is time later for thinking deep thoughts. Now, however, is the time to accomplish the work, now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We could do this better&#8221;\u2014said me, many times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know, I know, boy, do I know. We could do this better. &#8220;Let&#8217;s do better,&#8221; is a phrase I often use at the end of these little blog posts. Right now, however, I have something to do\u2014something to do now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s accomplish now&#8217;s work right now. Scribble little notes on the side as reminders that some time after this, I will discuss how to do it better. I will search for better tools that save time and improve quality. I <strong><em>will<\/em><\/strong> do that. I will not, however, do that now. Now I will accomplish the work in front of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And note how I wrote &#8220;I&#8221; instead of &#8220;we&#8221; in the above paragraph. This is MY problem. This is MY solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There is time later for thinking deep thoughts. Now, however, is the time to accomplish the work, now. &#8220;We could do this better&#8221;\u2014said me, many times. I know, I know, boy, do I know. We could do this better. &#8220;Let&#8217;s do better,&#8221; is a phrase I often use at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,316,7,20,9,42,67],"tags":[322,317,130,142,132,164,187],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-improvement","category-judgment","category-learning","category-management","category-process","category-work","tag-accountability","tag-improvement","tag-judgment","tag-learning","tag-management","tag-process","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","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=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4561,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}