{"id":2132,"date":"2014-01-07T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:16:05","slug":"great-looking-effort-no-real-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/great-looking-effort-no-real-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Looking Effort, No Real Accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being busy does not always mean real work.<br \/>\nThe object of all work is production or<br \/>\naccomplishment and to either of these ends<br \/>\nthere must be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Forethought<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>System<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Planning<\/strong><\/span>,<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Intelligence<\/strong><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Honest Purpose<\/strong><\/span>, as well as<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> Perspiration<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 Seeming to do is not doing&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Thomas Edison<\/p>\n<p>Given the measure of accomplishments Thomas Edison made in his lifetime his words bear listening to, in every arena of your life.\u00a0 Many of us are simply robots going through the motions of life, busy like bees in a hive, yet what do we accomplish?\u00a0 We approach everything in this manner.\u00a0 We workout for 22 minutes because that is what someone told us, no forethought, no real goals.\u00a0 Take a moment today and think about what you want to accomplish, meaning figure out what your goals are.\u00a0 Look at how you are going to do this (system and planning).\u00a0 Make sure your system and plan make sense, not a pie-in-the-sky unintelligent plan but one that is realistic.\u00a0 Be honest with yourself and your abilities.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t take that long to go through these steps!\u00a0 Now all you need to add is perspiration!<\/p>\n<p>Train Once, Train Often!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be Forethought, System, Planning, Intelligence, and Honest Purpose, as well as Perspiration.\u00a0 Seeming to do is not doing&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Edison Given the measure of accomplishments Thomas Edison made in<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/great-looking-effort-no-real-accomplishment\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23,16],"tags":[174,173,14,46],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-zen-thing","category-state-of-mind","category-training-notes","tag-in-the-news","tag-it-is-a-zen-thing","tag-training","tag-zen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}