{"id":11354,"date":"2015-02-20T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2015-02-20T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:01:43","slug":"todays-important-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2015\/02\/20\/todays-important-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Most Important Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11357\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/15879216380_91e5d4876f_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11357\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/15879216380_91e5d4876f_o-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Because some days, the most important thing is taking some time for coffee with Stijn.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/15879216380_91e5d4876f_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/15879216380_91e5d4876f_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/15879216380_91e5d4876f_o-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/15879216380_91e5d4876f_o.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Because some days, the most important thing is taking some time for a spiced latte with Stijn.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I often feel a bit at odds with &#8220;productivity&#8221; articles.\u00a0 Perhaps this resistance began last year when I realized that most of my goals were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2014\/01\/31\/getting-things-done-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">actually about slowing down<\/a> and reducing the frantic, seemingly &#8220;productive,&#8221; pace that I&#8217;d been maintaining and that probably led to some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2013\/04\/20\/between-scylla-charybdis\/\" target=\"_blank\">significant health problems<\/a> that I was grappling with.<\/p>\n<p>So lately, to combat the tendency to fritter away much of my time at time-consuming tasks that aren&#8217;t actually all that productive, I&#8217;ve started each day with a question for myself:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What&#8217;s the most important thing that I could accomplish today?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leading with that question, rather than beginning with whatever is screaming on my To-Do list, is not only giving me more peace of mind, but is also helping me to better-prioritize my daily work schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Note: This <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/pause-clarify-decide\" target=\"_blank\">excellent article at ProfHacker<\/a> is what inspired my thoughts about productivity this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often feel a bit at odds with &#8220;productivity&#8221; articles.\u00a0 Perhaps this resistance began last year when I realized that most of my goals were actually about slowing down and reducing the frantic, seemingly &#8220;productive,&#8221; pace that I&#8217;d been maintaining and that probably led to some of the significant health problems that I was grappling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-productivity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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