{"id":3997,"date":"2018-01-12T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T22:40:05","slug":"one-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/one-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The ONE Question Everyone Should Ask Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Email from an online business tool: &#8220;Next week, things are going to look and feel different [on our site].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My response: &#8220;I hope that means you&#8217;re fixing your customer experience issues, not just prettying up the brand. Fix the car before you paint it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How often do we try to cover up the blemishes in our own lives with solutions like these?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m drinking too much, guess I&#8217;ll lay off the hard stuff and stick with beer<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re fighting too much, let&#8217;s try not talking at all<\/li>\n<li>I hate my work, if only I could find a job that pays more money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a few minutes today to consider <strong>this one question<\/strong>: &#8220;What personal problem or roadblock am I trying to cover up instead of fix?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Fix the Car Before You Paint It &#8211; Hypertension and Cholesterol<\/h2>\n<p>For the past several years, I&#8217;ve been taking a &#8220;blood pressure pill&#8221; daily. Worse yet, the doc says I should add a &#8220;cholesterol pill&#8221; into the mix. That&#8217;s a problem, you see, because I don&#8217;t like the idea of painting the car instead of fixing it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doc, isn&#8217;t there something I can do with diet and exercise that would help?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. This is all about heredity. You must play the cards you&#8217;re dealt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve been taking the blood pressure pills, but I&#8217;m bucking hard against the statin drugs for cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I experienced some remarkable success with an eating plan I developed. Then came the holidays, and I got off track. For awhile, I was off the blood pressure medication altogether (the doctor was amazed). But it wasn&#8217;t sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than paint the car, though &#8230; I&#8217;m working on a repair. I&#8217;ve re-grouped, I&#8217;m back on the plan, and I&#8217;m hoping to duplicate the results.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN UP: I&#8217;m not saying you should stop taking your medications. This is about me and my car. I can&#8217;t drive two cars at once. You are in charge of your own. I do urge, you, though, to consider the core of this idea and ask yourself that one critical question: What am I trying to cover up that I should be dealing with instead?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/roadturn-principles\/\">Roadturn principle<\/a>: Fix the car before you paint it.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Don<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: I\u2019m not a psychiatrist. I don\u2019t even play a doctor on TV. I write from my own life experience and observations. I\u2019ve a master\u2019s degree in the humanities, I&#8217;m a believer and philosopher, and I\u2019m the author of\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2CBG9PK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2CBG9PK\">How to LIVE<\/a>, a field manual for getting unstuck. I&#8217;m not a physician, and I don&#8217;t intend to dispense medical advice here. My aim is to share what&#8217;s working (and not working) for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email from an online business tool: &#8220;Next week, things are going to look and feel different [on our site].&#8221; My response: &#8220;I hope that means you&#8217;re fixing your customer experience issues, not just prettying up the brand. Fix the car before you paint it.&#8221; How often do we try to cover up the blemishes in [&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":[395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997"}],"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=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35953,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/35953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}