{"id":286360,"date":"2023-03-30T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T06:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=286360"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:07:52","slug":"planning-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2023\/03\/30\/planning-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/procrastination-resized-1-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-286362 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/procrastination-resized-1-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><\/a> We generally fail to do well when we put off tasks for later (procrastination) Yet we often don&#8217;t confront the reasons. We choose to feel bad about it because we should have done whatever it was we had to do but didn&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>Procrastination is us being emotional beings. We don&#8217;t feel like it. We don&#8217;t like the subject. We are anxious, avoiding, non-confrontational. Until we are called to account. Then it is too late&#8230; the damage is done &#8211; a missed deadline, a loved one let down.<\/p>\n<p>To move forward and break the cycle is to take a moment to appreciate and assess what it is that is stopping you from starting. Then perhaps give yourself a start &#8211; by promising yourself a reward when it is completed. Just commit to making a start &#8211; the first step. <em>Acknowledge your feelings and then do it anyway<\/em>. Growth is achieved through persistence. And you will start to feel better about yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We generally fail to do well when we put off tasks for later (procrastination) Yet we often don&#8217;t confront the reasons. We choose to feel bad about it because we should have done whatever it was we had to do but didn&#8217;t do. Procrastination is us being emotional beings. We don&#8217;t feel like it. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,99,194,118,30,192,31,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-10","category-grade-11","category-dp","category-grade-12","category-grade-7","category-myp","category-grade-8","category-grade-9","category-secondary-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}