{"id":2373,"date":"2006-05-30T22:48:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T22:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2006-05-30T22:48:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T22:48:20","slug":"dont_stopstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Stop&#8230;.Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fastcompany.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/30\/leading_ideas_dont_stopstart.html\">Doug Sundheim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If you want to change something in your life, it&#8217;s common to try to stop the behaviors you don&#8217;t like. While this certainly seems logical, it seldom works. The reason is simple &#8211; it unintentionally creates a vacuum where the old behaviors used to be. And since nature hates a vacuum it will fill it with anything it can find &#8211; usually the very behaviors you&#8217;re trying to stop since they&#8217;re so familiar. Instead of stopping certain behaviors, try focusing on what you want to create &#8211; and the new behaviors you need to get there. Eventually, with practice, new behaviors will develop enough muscle to naturally replace the old ones.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Sundheim: If you want to change something in your life, it&#8217;s common to try to stop the behaviors you don&#8217;t like. While this certainly seems logical, it seldom works. The reason is simple &#8211; it unintentionally creates a vacuum where the old behaviors used to be. And since nature hates a vacuum it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}