{"id":1357,"date":"2014-09-23T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2014-09-23T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T21:44:56","slug":"survive-or-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"Survive or Thrive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survival means we&#8217;re trying to get by. \u00a0Or it could mean what&#8217;s happening now is only serving a seemingly more important goal. \u00a0Either way, we&#8217;ve accepted some reality as a given and we&#8217;re dealing with it as best we can. \u00a0There&#8217;s something we can&#8217;t change. \u00a0We&#8217;ve created ourselves around something else. \u00a0But we can do better. \u00a0We want to do better. \u00a0We want to THRIVE. \u00a0We want to be the best we can be and we want to be happy doing it. \u00a0Why should we be satisfied with who we are until now? \u00a0When it comes to others we may need to accept something as a given, as a reality to wrap ourselves around. \u00a0But when it comes to ourselves, we need to demand more. \u00a0We can&#8217;t just survive and get by. \u00a0We need to thrive, and that means taking a look into ourselves and recognizing what it is we really want to accomplish. \u00a0And when we bring out the best in ourselves then we&#8217;re happy, because real happiness is when we&#8217;re doing what we&#8217;re meant to be doing. \u00a0That&#8217;s a message to carry us into a new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survival means we&#8217;re trying to get by. \u00a0Or it could mean what&#8217;s happening now is only serving a seemingly more important goal. \u00a0Either way, we&#8217;ve accepted some reality as a given and we&#8217;re dealing with it as best we can. \u00a0There&#8217;s something we can&#8217;t change. \u00a0We&#8217;ve created ourselves around something else. \u00a0But we can do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/583.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}