{"id":193,"date":"2014-07-08T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imnodummy.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-07-07T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T21:14:34","slug":"ready-fire-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/ready-fire-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready, Fire, Aim!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard the expression, &#8220;Ready, Fire, Aim!&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/workshouldbefun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Target.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-194 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/workshouldbefun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Target-231x300.gif\" alt=\"Target\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usually when this expression is used, it is said in a way that implies going about things in the wrong order. Perhaps suggesting a failure to plan. &#8220;<em>A failure to plan is planning to fail.<\/em>&#8221; Yeah, yeah. Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been more of a <em>Ready, Fire, Aim!<\/em> kind of guy.\u00a0 Sure, I plan. I rehearse. I prepare.\u00a0 But, there comes a time when you have to pull the trigger and find out whether you&#8217;re even close to the intended target.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. When you are sighting in a rifle, the only way to know if you are on target is to pull the trigger and see where the bullet hits.<\/p>\n<p>Then you can adjust the sight, take aim, and fire again.<\/p>\n<p>The next time you find yourself endlessly spinning on something, trying to be perfect, refusing to accept anything other than a bullseye on the first shot, remember that you can&#8217;t know for sure whether the guide you are using, the assumptions you have made, are accurate &#8211; until you take a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Be willing to make some mistakes. Be willing to miss the bullseye a few times as you adjust your sights and fine tune your approach. Just be sure your rifle is pointed down range.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard the expression, &#8220;Ready, Fire, Aim!&#8221;? Usually when this expression is used, it is said in a way that implies going about things in the wrong order. Perhaps suggesting a failure to plan. &#8220;A failure to plan is planning to fail.&#8221; Yeah, yeah. Whatever. I have always been more of a Ready, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/ready-fire-aim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready, Fire, Aim!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}