{"id":12121,"date":"2020-08-19T23:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12121"},"modified":"2020-08-19T23:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:05:01","slug":"dont-focus-on-the-insignificant-at-the-expense-of-the-profound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/dont-focus-on-the-insignificant-at-the-expense-of-the-profound\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Focus On The Insignificant At The Expense Of The Profound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reminders like this one are always worth taking the time to read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Years ago, a Lockheed 1011 jumbo jet crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing over 100 people&#8230;  After the accident, investigators tried to determine the cause. The landing gear had indeed lowered properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane was in perfect mechanical condition. Everything\nwas working properly\u2014all except one thing: a single burned-out lightbulb. That\ntiny bulb\u2014 worth about 20 cents\u2014started the chain of events that ultimately led\nto the tragic death of over 100 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the malfunctioning lightbulb didn\u2019t cause the\naccident; it happened because the crew placed its focus on something that\nseemed to matter at the moment while losing sight of what mattered most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tendency to focus on the insignificant at the expense of the profound happens not only to pilots but to everyone. We are all at risk. . . . Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?&#8221;   &#8211; Dieter F. Uchtdorf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Awesome-Looks-Like-Business\/dp\/1946633763\">What Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business &amp; Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminders like this one are always worth taking the time to read: &#8220;Years ago, a Lockheed 1011 jumbo jet crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing over 100 people&#8230; After the accident, investigators tried to determine the cause. The landing gear had indeed lowered properly. The plane was in perfect mechanical condition. Everything was working properly\u2014all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,3892,24107,24106],"class_list":["post-12121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-dieter-f-uchtdorf","tag-dont-focus-on-the-insignificant-at-the-expense-of-the-profound","tag-focus-on-what-matters-most"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13049,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions\/13049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}