{"id":6589,"date":"2016-03-31T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T08:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T08:51:30","slug":"one-important-day-at-a-time-words-of-wisdom-from-todd-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/one-important-day-at-a-time-words-of-wisdom-from-todd-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"One important day &#8230; at a time!  Words of wisdom from Todd Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"620\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"600\"><strong>One important day\u2026 at a time\u00a0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cImagine for a moment that you will have a guest accompanying you throughout your day tomorrow. This person\u2019s task will be to follow you around from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep. They will take copious notes about your schedule, how you interact with your family and friends, how you engage in your tasks and projects, and your mind-set through it all. Once the day is over, this person will spend the next few days processing their observations, draw conclusions about your motivations, and compile their notes into a book about you that will stand as the definitive record of your life and work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How would you act differently tomorrow if you knew that your actions and attitude on that one day were going to be a permanent testament to your life? If you\u2019re like many people to whom I\u2019ve posted this question, you would probably get up a little earlier, pay extra attention to your family and the barista at Starbucks, be fully vested in every meeting, be meticulous in every task, call up an old friend for lunch, reconcile with an alienated colleague, and generally wrap up loose ends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Next I ask, \u2018How does your imagined behavior compare with how you are actually living your life today?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014Todd Henry <\/strong>from <a href=\"http:\/\/brianjohnson.us9.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=a8b0e968d05b8c09166451657&amp;id=979c4e1d07&amp;e=17b521d1fc\"><strong><em>Die Empty<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One important day\u2026 at a time\u00a0: \u201cImagine for a moment that you will have a guest accompanying you throughout your day tomorrow. This person\u2019s task will be to follow you around from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep. They will take copious notes about your schedule, how you interact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.less-stress-more-success.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}