{"id":4891,"date":"2024-10-07T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","slug":"avoiding-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4891","title":{"rendered":"AVOIDING NEGOTIATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<spanMinion Pro\", Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif;font-size: 18px' style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">90 percent of success is not getting distracted.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Both of these lines jumped out at me from an email newsletter called <i>Brain Food<\/i>, by Shane Parrish.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">I am one who can &#8220;negotiate&#8221; with himself all morning, every day if I allow it. Some days it&#8217;s not as intense as others, but I find that any amount of negotiating ends in paralysis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">I have been feeling for some time that I need a morning routine beyond drinking coffee and then making breakfast for Melissa and Sarah.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Once they head out for school is when the negotiating starts.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">I do know the centerpiece to a solid morning routine MUST be Scripture and prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">When I go straight to the Bible first thing in the morning, it tends to ground me for the day in all the deeper realities of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">I guess it&#8217;s not surprising that if I don&#8217;t go there first, the doors are thrown open to negotiations and distractions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">In other words, small thinking.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}