{"id":7390,"date":"2022-02-22T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","slug":"the-right-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7390","title":{"rendered":"THE RIGHT TOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am currently attempting a 12 page research paper for my doctorate work. And it was kicking my butt. Mostly it inspired endless procrastination. (I&#8217;ve had two months to focus on it.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I came across a writing program called Scrivener, downloaded it for $40, and spent two hours looking through its tutorials.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scrivener&#8217;s genius is in breaking long pieces of writing down into smaller parts and keeping it all organized and together.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now I am moving forward on the paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It makes me wonder &#8230; How often in life have I assumed I could go no further because I didn&#8217;t have the <i><b>ability <\/b><\/i>&#8211; when all I was lacking was the <i>tool<\/i>?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The right tool makes all the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe when you don&#8217;t see a way forward, it&#8217;s only because God hasn&#8217;t put the right tool into your hand yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently attempting a 12 page research paper for my doctorate work. And it was kicking my butt. Mostly it inspired endless procrastination. (I&#8217;ve had two months to focus on it.) Then I came across a writing program called Scrivener, downloaded it for $40, and spent two hours looking through its tutorials. Scrivener&#8217;s genius [&hellip;]<\/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-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390","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=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}