why bother!? Let me get to work!<\/em><\/p>\nTo be sure, we never want the meta work to get in the way. But neither can we skip it. When you look at the meta work in context of the bigger picture, you can instantly see that it is necessary. You cannot skip any of the steps or else you will short-circuit the whole process. But, of course, neither should you spend too much time on the meta steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are 4 necessary steps to doing work that matters: Identify Plan Act Celebrate Only one of those steps is actually doing the work. The other 3 are what we call \u201cmeta work\u201d. Meta work is the work that happens before and after the work itself. If you are cooking dinner, meta work is doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17419,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737\/revisions\/17419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}