{"id":3598,"date":"2017-07-24T23:54:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2017-07-24T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:54:25","slug":"heres-what-you-should-do-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/heres-what-you-should-do-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What You Should Do Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Annie Dillard)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old story about a guy who wanted to be a poet.<\/p>\n<p>Poets don&#8217;t typically get paid much, so he reckoned it best to move to Australia and work on a cattle ranch until he could save enough money to go back home and start writing.<\/p>\n<p>After about 40 years, he reckoned himself sufficiently funded for poetry, so he moved back to London and set up an office.<\/p>\n<p><em>Then he had a heart attack and died.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3600\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3600\" src=\"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Annie-dillard.gfdl_.288.jpg\" alt=\"Author Annie Dillard on Roadturn\" width=\"288\" height=\"433\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Annie Dillard (GFDL license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know, it&#8217;s a ludicrous idea and a sad story.<\/p>\n<p>We prefer happy endings and longshot champions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the point<\/strong>: Don&#8217;t wait any longer to do what you&#8217;ve been called to do.<\/p>\n<p>Stop trying to lose weight &#8216;some day,&#8217; and do something about your health on THIS day.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the stuff your life is made of. Tomorrow never comes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenge<\/strong>: What is the goal you most want to achieve? Write it down. Now list 20 micro-steps you can take to move towards accomplishing that goal. Pick one and do it TODAY. Then rinse, wash, and repeat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roadturn Principle<\/strong>: Change your direction and you change your future.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard) &nbsp; There&#8217;s an old story about a guy who wanted to be a poet. Poets don&#8217;t typically get paid much, so he reckoned it best to move to Australia and work on a cattle ranch until he could save enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}