{"id":6174,"date":"2008-12-18T22:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T05:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2008-12-18T22:30:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T05:30:47","slug":"random-thoughts-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6174\/random-thoughts-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts For The New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only folks I know who can multitask without dumbing down the results are stay at home moms, God bless ’em. They’re seemingly capable of doing a dozen tasks simultaneously while being asked to kiss the booboo on Suzie’s knee, or laugh at the faces being made by Suzie’s big brother. The rest of the population? Multitasking for them is an ongoing disaster generating mediocre results at best, and shamefully embarrassing results at worst. <\/p>\n

Go ahead, tell me you haven’t victimized yourself via multitasking, I dare ya. ‘Course I’m uh, challenged when it comes to doing too many things at once. It’s only been a recent victory — talking on the cell while pacing. Little steps I guess. <\/p>\n

For 30 days, consciously eschew multitasking when it comes to your professional life. Focus like a laser beam on the task at hand. Produce the best of which you’re capable. Just 30 days. Try it and you should find out what I did. Everything I did improved in an easily measurable way. <\/p>\n

Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite Two and a Half Men episode is ‘Call the Guy’<\/em>. Because one brother refuses to get a pro to fix the satellite dish, he ends up with several painful injuries. He abhors calling the guy. Of Course, the running joke then becomes, ‘Hey, why didn’t you just call the guy?’<\/p>\n

I bring this up because I’ve come close to tossing my cookies more than once after reading or hearing someone talk about their website woes. Seems they do everything themselves, but I’m thinkin’ they didn’t get the memo — they’re not web guys. <\/p>\n

Yeah, I know, the proprietor of this site does everything himself. Well duh. If I had his ‘puter programming background I’d consider doing mine myself too. Probably not, but I’d consider it.<\/em> But since most folks adopting the do-it-yourself approach could study what Greg knows on the subject for a year, and still not know what he’s forgotten, why bother? <\/p>\n

Not convinced? Look, I get it if it’s because of the additional cost a pro brings to the party. If that’s the case, it is what Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thought: The only folks I know who can multitask without dumbing down the results are stay at home moms, God bless ’em. They’re seemingly capable of doing a dozen tasks simultaneously while being asked to kiss the booboo on Suzie’s knee, or laugh at the faces being made by Suzie’s big brother. The rest of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-enduring-interest","7":"category-realty-reality","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12109,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12109\/a-month-with-the-ipad\/","url_meta":{"origin":6174,"position":0},"title":"A Month With the iPad","author":"Damon Chetson","date":"May 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I got the iPad - 64gig 3G enabled - about a month ago. Unfortunately - or fortunately given how busy I've been - I haven't had enough time to truly explore the possibilities. Here's my set-up. My MacBook laptop has been retired to serve as my home computer. I got\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}