{"id":782,"date":"2013-12-12T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/?p=782"},"modified":"2018-11-30T18:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:54:19","slug":"start-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2013\/12\/12\/start-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2648\/4093575863_9ba39f1a07_z.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"via laszlo-photo on flickr\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2648\/4093575863_9ba39f1a07_z.jpg\" height=\"212\" title=\"via laszlo-photo on flickr\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">[cc via laszlo-photo on Flickr]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;m a horrible procrastinator. I think a big reason is that I dream big, and I plan big, and I always, always want to START big.<\/p>\n<p>That might be an okay way to do things for some people. But for me too often the &#8220;go big or go home&#8221; attitude equates to &#8220;go home&#8221;, or in this case, &#8220;put it off for a little while longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like writing.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, and I&#8217;m making an effort, this time, to start small.<\/p>\n<p>This is a baby step. After this, I&#8217;ll take more baby steps. I&#8217;ll start small, and maybe I&#8217;ll even keep it small; if I do that for long enough, eventually it will have become something big.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is: starting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[cc via laszlo-photo on Flickr] I&#8217;m a horrible procrastinator. I think a big reason is that I dream big, and I plan big, and I always, always want to START big. That might be an okay way to do things for some people. But for me too often the &#8220;go big or go home&#8221; attitude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}