{"id":2672,"date":"2020-01-02T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:19:10","slug":"constructing-a-dont-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Constructing a \u201cDon\u2019t Do\u201d List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2349\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So I\u2019m doing my traditional New Year\u2019s assessment\u2014seeing what got done last year and thinking about what needs to happen in 2020\u2014and I had a thought.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the most important thing is not what I put on my \u201cto do\u201d list but what I leave off.<\/p>\n<p>Because, it\u2019s obvious; I can\u2019t get ALL these things done.<\/p>\n<p>And trying will make me both frustrated and less effective\u2014because, sometimes, good things push out best things.<\/p>\n<p>So I sit here, pencil in hand, deciding what <em>not<\/em> to do.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to take a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I\u2019m doing my traditional New Year\u2019s assessment\u2014seeing what got done last year and thinking about what needs to happen in 2020\u2014and I had a thought. Maybe the most important thing is not what I put on my \u201cto do\u201d list but what I leave off. Because, it\u2019s obvious; I can\u2019t get ALL these things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}