{"id":514,"date":"2012-10-27T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2012-10-27T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T17:34:53","slug":"first-things-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"First Things First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have another \u201cabridged\u201d day for research.\u00a0 We have some car issues to grapple with today, so I need to depart early so we can see our mechanic.\u00a0 Increasingly these shortened days are becoming the norm!\u00a0 It is a challenge, but I am trying to get better at simply making the most of the time that I can devote to research versus being cranky that I am unable to have a full day to focus.\u00a0 This is hard for me because I continue to grapple with the desire to progress rapidly and achieve milestones.<\/p>\n<p>The above notwithstanding, I am getting very comfortable with ensuring that I focus on priority items within the available time.\u00a0 Today was a great example of this.\u00a0 I was tempted to do some quantitative analysis first.\u00a0 Instead I focused on creating an interview template that I will use\u00a0during the interviews.\u00a0 Essentially I simply reorganized some of my interview schedule and added some new sections and spacing so that it will be easier to take notes during the interview.\u00a0 My first interview is on Monday and I am excited.\u00a0 Thanks to prioritizing, I am also now prepared!<\/p>\n<p>Next week I will be travelling to BC and will conduct 6 interviews.\u00a0 This phase is very exciting stuff.\u00a0 I hope that it does not rain too much!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have another \u201cabridged\u201d day for research.\u00a0 We have some car issues to grapple with today, so I need to depart early so we can see our mechanic.\u00a0 Increasingly these shortened days are becoming the norm!\u00a0 It is a challenge, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/?p=514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-highs-and-lows-of-the-dba-journey","category-time-management","category-tips-and-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}