{"id":4414,"date":"2024-06-04T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2024-06-04T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:50:29","slug":"the-main-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/the-main-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The main thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.<\/p>\n<cite>Proverbs 4:7<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The main thing, is to keep the main thing, the main thing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This phrase was apparently by Stephen Covey, author of <em>The 7 Habits<\/em> of Highly Effective People.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s also a song I heard  <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MZA1aFsIs4I\">from a guy playing piano in a small church hall<\/a> in North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen&#8217;s insight is that every goal has a &#8220;main thing&#8221;, a single success factor that is the linchpin of the entire enterprise. And success is simply identifying this &#8220;main thing&#8221; and organising your energy around keeping &#8220;the main thing, the main thing&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The insight from Proverbs is that the Main Thing is wisdom. Wisdom is the principal thing&#8230;the main thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Put wisdom on centre stage, and remove everything that detracts from that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Proverbs 4:7 The main thing, is to keep the main thing, the main thing. This phrase was apparently by Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It&#8217;s also a song I heard from a guy playing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/the-main-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The main thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}