{"id":185,"date":"2020-03-07T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2020-03-07T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:30:21","slug":"task-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/task-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Task completion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard a story of an Army general giving a talk and he said, \u201cWhy do you think we make them make their beds?\u201d and the answer was, \u201cTask completion.\u201d I think the takeaway was supposed to be that there is some value in completing a task, no matter what the task was. That it sets you up for completing more tasks. That it\u2019s like you telling yourself or proving to yourself that you can complete the task at hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a story of an Army general giving a talk and he said, \u201cWhy do you think we make them make their beds?\u201d and the answer was, \u201cTask completion.\u201d I think the takeaway was supposed to be that there is some value in completing a task, no matter what the task was. That it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/task-completion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Task completion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}