{"id":62,"date":"2010-06-15T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-10-26T04:02:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T10:02:45","slug":"inspired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been inspired to be better before, and this time is no different&#8230;except that I want it to be&#8230;I want to actually BE BETTER. I want to be a better person, wife, daughter, and friend. I really do. And not just for a week, but a lifetime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I WANT to work out&#8230;I read an article last week about the exact wording we use when speaking to ourselves about things we want to accomplish. It said we need to use words like &#8220;want&#8221; instead of &#8220;need&#8221; for example, &#8220;I want to work out today&#8221; rather than &#8220;I need to work out today.&#8221; With the justification that saying &#8220;want&#8221; instead of &#8220;need&#8221; makes you more likely to work out because it is not a &#8220;have-to&#8221; it is a &#8220;want-to.&#8221; This could go either way in my book, but I thought it was intriguing. A different take on the self-motivation factor of working out. Honestly, its one I have never heard before and I guess its worth a try.<\/p>\n<p>These two blogs are inspiring to say the least:<\/p>\n<p>This one is written by Jenny Simmons from the band Addison Road:<br \/>http:\/\/www.jennysimmons.com\/2010\/06\/reality-please.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+jennysimmons+%28Jenny%27s+Blog%29<br \/>She is an amazing writer and this particular post is about living in your reality rather than wishing you were somewhere else. <\/p>\n<p>This one is written by Suzanne, a &#8220;non-blogger&#8221; who blogs all the time.<br \/>http:\/\/joiningthejourney.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/balancing-act.html<br \/>It is about balancing your priorities, and how, if you do so, everything else falls into place.<\/p>\n<p>These two blog posts are inpsiring&#8230;strive to create and hold onto my priorities while living in the present rather than on a caribbean island with my toes in the sand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been inspired to be better before, and this time is no different&#8230;except that I want it to be&#8230;I want to actually BE BETTER. I want to be a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","has-meta has-sticky-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}