{"id":3856,"date":"2009-07-05T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2009-07-05T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T14:45:07","slug":"house-cleaning-always-has-an-inward-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3856","title":{"rendered":"House Cleaning Always Has An Inward Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m cleaning house here at Casa del Garrett, going through tons of old stuff, and I got into a storage bin I have of posters that go back to my teen years.&nbsp; I found one titled Peter&#8217;s Laws.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not going to keep it&#8230;it really isn&#8217;t my style.&nbsp; But I know why it found its way into my collection: it&#8217;s hilarious.&nbsp; Well&#8230;<em>I<\/em> think it is.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a few of them&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If anything can go wrong&#8230;fix it.&nbsp; To hell with Murphy.<\/li>\n<li>When given a choice, take both.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple Projects lead to multiple successes.<\/li>\n<li>When forced to compromise, ask for more.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t beat them, join them.&nbsp; Then beat them.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t win, change the rules.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t change the rules, ignore them.<\/li>\n<li>Perfection is not optional.<\/li>\n<li>When faced without a challenge, make one.\n<\/li>\n<li>&quot;No&quot;, simply means begin again at one higher level.<\/li>\n<li>The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This poster was subtitled, <em>The Creed Of The Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive<\/em>.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t imagine why.&nbsp; Like I said, I&#8217;m not going to keep it, it&#8217;s not my style.&nbsp; But there are times when I get like this.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t imagine being like that all the time though.&nbsp; You don&#8217;t always need to be relentless.&nbsp; It&#8217;s good to step back from time to time and just watch the chaos happen.&nbsp; You see things you wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise seen.&nbsp; Life takes you places you would never have guessed would be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m cleaning house here at Casa del Garrett, going through tons of old stuff, and I got into a storage bin I have of posters that go back to my teen years.&nbsp; I found one titled Peter&#8217;s Laws.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not going to keep it&#8230;it really isn&#8217;t my style.&nbsp; But I know why it found its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}