{"id":4936,"date":"2024-12-17T14:32:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T14:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/yesterday-i-had-an-opportunity-to-connect-more-deeply-with-somebody-i-respect-and-admire-and-i-messed-it-up\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:32","slug":"yesterday-i-had-an-opportunity-to-connect-more-deeply-with-somebody-i-respect-and-admire-and-i-messed-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/yesterday-i-had-an-opportunity-to-connect-more-deeply-with-somebody-i-respect-and-admire-and-i-messed-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7274793702651256832>Yesterday I had an opportunity to connect more deeply with somebody I respect and admire. And I messed it up.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had an opportunity to connect more deeply with somebody I respect and admire. And I messed it up.<\/p>\n<p>People think that they need more opportunities. But opportunities happen all the time. And we can&#8217;t control when they occur.<\/p>\n<p>What we can control is how well we prepare for opportunities. I &#8220;knew&#8221; what to do in that situation, but I wasn&#8217;t able to execute in that moment because I hadn&#8217;t practiced my skills of presence and connection enough. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to think that knowing the idea is enough, but consistent deliberate practice is what translates ideas into habits and muscle memory so we don&#8217;t have to think about what to do when an opportunity arises. <\/p>\n<p>The good news is that I felt terrible all day as a result. I intend to use that feeling as motivation to invest in my practices of awareness and presence so that I will be more prepared for the next opportunity, instead of getting distracted in the key moment.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? What are you practicing each day? Are you practicing getting distracted by incoming notifications or scrolling social media, as I was? Or are you practicing going deeper into your craft so you&#8217;re prepared for the next opportunity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had an opportunity to connect more deeply with somebody I respect and admire. And I messed it up. People think that they need more opportunities. But opportunities happen all the time. And we can&#8217;t control when they occur. What we can control is how well we prepare for opportunities. I &#8220;knew&#8221; what to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}