{"id":81,"date":"2020-10-26T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.jal.mybluehost.me\/\/?p=81"},"modified":"2021-07-14T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T04:51:06","slug":"doorstep-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/doorstep-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doorstep Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"81\" class=\"elementor elementor-81\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4b44df3e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4b44df3e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-60f0f075\" data-id=\"60f0f075\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23c3cdc2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23c3cdc2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It\u2019s not easy to start a journey.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Beginning requires us to leave our warm, comfortable, familiar milieu and set out into the challenging and possibly scary world of the unknown. Beginning requires us to muster up the force to overcome <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inertia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">inertia<\/span><\/a>\u2014the resistance an object has to a change in its state of motion.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In Scandinavia, there is a wonderful phrase to describe this challenging first part of the journey: <em>the doorstep mile<\/em>.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When seeking to do the hard work of embarking on a journey, of making change happen, of innovating, sometimes the best way to move forward isn\u2019t to think about the grand adventure. Rather, it\u2019s to focus on just getting out the door and taking the first few steps.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Once you\u2019ve started on your journey by completing the doorstep mile, inertia will help you keep moving forward.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><br>h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/alastairhumphreys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alastair Humphreys<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not easy to start a journey. To help you get going, focus on the doorstep mile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-innovation","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/doorstep-mile.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}