{"id":2477,"date":"2014-05-18T06:08:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2014-05-18T06:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:08:42","slug":"slow-down-to-speed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Slow Down to Speed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To complete a task efficiently with high quality results I&#8217;ve found that slowing myself down and concentrating on it to then execute it purposefully is faster in the end than rushing through it just to complete it quickest. When I don&#8217;t slow myself down, I find that I&#8217;m not satisfied with the quality of execution and the final result and have to do it all over again. Or I make mistakes and have accidents that require more work to clean up. All result in slower execution than doing it slightly slower in first place. So I tell myself: &#8220;Slow down to speed up&#8221;. But this works only if you&#8217;ve already mastered the skill of fast execution. Procrastination shouldn&#8217;t be slowed down ;-). \u00a0You should always challenge yourself to complete a task in an aggressive time frame with the risk of not achieving it. That way you discover optimizations unknown to you before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To complete a task efficiently with high quality results I&#8217;ve found that slowing myself down and concentrating on it to then execute it purposefully is faster in the end than rushing through it just to complete it quickest. When I don&#8217;t slow myself down, I find that I&#8217;m not satisfied with the quality of execution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=2477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slow Down to Speed Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}