{"id":13457,"date":"2017-11-21T21:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13457"},"modified":"2017-11-21T21:41:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:41:06","slug":"lessons-learned-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13457","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a lot from working on my nature photo album. I wanted to apply those lessons to my current project, so I put them into a handy list. Now I&#8217;m going to post the list here, where I can find it any time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the project is too big, break it into smaller pieces.<\/li>\n<li>Keep track of what you&#8217;ve done, what you&#8217;re doing, and where you&#8217;re going. Don&#8217;t throw away anything until you&#8217;re done, because you never know when you&#8217;ll need to backtrack.<\/li>\n<li>Look for better solutions. Just because you&#8217;ve found a workaround doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s not a better solution. Do what you have to do to keep your forward momentum, but don&#8217;t give up on the idea of a better solution until you&#8217;re absolutely sure there isn&#8217;t one.<\/li>\n<li>Work on the project every day, and do not stop until it&#8217;s done.<\/li>\n<li>Accept that there will be mistakes. Better done and flawed than never done.<\/li>\n<li>Ignore the voice that says, &#8220;No one will like this. This has no value. I am wasting my time. This is a stupid project, and I am stupid.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s talking about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a lot from working on my nature photo album. I wanted to apply those lessons to my current project, so I put them into a handy list. Now I&#8217;m going to post the list here, where I can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13457\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13460,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions\/13460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}