{"id":5053,"date":"2014-10-09T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2014-10-09T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T21:25:04","slug":"subversive-mobilization-you-can-quit-anything-on-a-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5053","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Mobilization: You Can Quit Anything on a Thursday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The provocative and winsome <a href=\"http:\/\/bobgoff.com\/\">Bob Goff<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-Does-Discover-Secretly-Incredible-ebook\/dp\/B0078FA8HU\/\">Love Does<\/a>, famously asserts that<a href=\"http:\/\/donaldmcallister.com\/quit-anything-thursday\/\"> you can quit anything on a Thursday!<\/a> And he does. Reportedly Bob quits something every Thursday. I wonder what he\u2019s quitting today?<\/p>\n<p>His logic is that you can\u2019t get the really good stuff into your life if your life is already stuffed with other things.<\/p>\n<p>Makes sense to me. So what should I quit today? TV? Writing the Practical Mob column? I considered quitting Facebook, but then I thought maybe I should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shanedar1\">invite you to be my friend there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I am quitting. First the easy one, then the harder one:<\/p>\n<p>1. I\u2019m quitting the Christmas gift edition of Practical Mobilization that has occupied my December slot for the past five years. Thank you, Thursday!<\/p>\n<p>2. I\u2019m also going to quit thinking and acting like people who think differently from me are dumb. They may be wrong. And heck, they may be dumb, but I don\u2019t want to assume that, and I certainly don\u2019t want to imply that in conversations with others.<\/p>\n<p>So how about you? It\u2019s Thursday. What are you going to quit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The provocative and winsome Bob Goff, author of Love Does, famously asserts that you can quit anything on a Thursday! And he does. Reportedly Bob quits something every Thursday. I wonder what he\u2019s quitting today? His logic is that you can\u2019t get the really good stuff into your life if your life is already stuffed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Subversive Mobilization: You Can Quit Anything on a Thursday!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-mobilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}