{"id":1346,"date":"2020-10-14T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2021-09-16T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:04:43","slug":"want-to-make-a-difference-make-it-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/want-to-make-a-difference-make-it-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to make a difference? Make it PERSONAL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpbf-responsive-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Want to make a difference? Make it PERSONAL!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c7t-06mYUq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the talk about how shitty the world is &#8211; how we\u2019re disconnected, divided, polarized, angry, impatient, unforgiving, etc &#8211; is NOT making the world a better place. Sure, it\u2019s raising awareness. But ask yourself a question\u2026 ARE YOU ALREADY AWARE?If the answer is YES\u2026 then you don\u2019t need to get more aware.<\/p>\n<p>You know what you need to do?<\/p>\n<p>Make it PERSONAL.<\/p>\n<p>What are YOU going to do. TODAY. To make it different in YOUR life, with YOUR spouse, with YOUR family, with YOUR colleagues.How are YOU going to be more patient, forgiving, understanding, kind, compassionate, vulnerable?When you get triggered today (because it WILL happen), what are you going to do to prevent yourself from traveling down the slippery slope of anger, defensiveness, and upset?<\/p>\n<p>If each of us makes a commitment to do SOMETHING to improve communication, awareness, and the energy we\u2019re giving off\u2026 THAT will make a difference.\u201cNever underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.\u201d ~ Margaret Mead<br \/>\nYou want CHANGE? Stop watching the news, complaining about how bad things are, looking \u2018out there\u2019 at the problems in the world and wishing things would get better.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, choose SOMETHING\u2026 ANYTHING to do something different in YOUR LIFE, TODAY. Then we\u2019ll start seeing a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the talk about how shitty the world is &#8211; how we\u2019re disconnected, divided, polarized, angry, impatient, unforgiving, etc &#8211; is NOT making the world a better place. Sure, it\u2019s raising awareness. But ask yourself a question\u2026 ARE YOU ALREADY AWARE?If the answer is YES\u2026 then you don\u2019t need to get more aware. You know what you need to do? Make it PERSONAL. What are YOU going to do. TODAY. To make it different in YOUR life, with YOUR spouse, with YOUR family, with YOUR colleagues.How are YOU going to be more patient, forgiving, understanding, kind, compassionate, vulnerable?When you get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypetranek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}