{"id":2571,"date":"2014-11-30T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2015-07-01T18:15:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T18:15:39","slug":"the-road-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/the-road-not-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Not Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"

The name for this website was inspired by Robert Frost’s\u00a0poem, “The Road Not Taken.” Choices in my own life took me to a place where I was unsure of my next step. I had resigned from a position many folks aspire to. It was “secure” and paid exceptionally well.<\/p>\n

So, I quit.<\/p>\n

I finished a long-delayed bachelor’s degree, then went on to complete a master’s. I had long known I wanted to focus on writing, but\u00a0couldn’t quite drum up the faith to take the leap into full-time freelancing.<\/p>\n

I encouraged others to become entrepreneurs, but held back myself.<\/p>\n

When Paul Potts<\/a> made his rapid ascent from obscurity and poverty to plenty-of-cash stardom in 2006, I began pondering the two-roads concept earnestly. I began asking others whether they had ever experienced a “Roadturn” in life — one that really did make “all the difference.”<\/p>\n

Let’s stop there, for now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s look at Frost’s poem and then look within. Are you at a fork in the road? Have you been there before? Your story is welcome here.<\/p>\n

The Road Not Taken<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
\nAnd sorry I could not travel both
\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood
\nAnd looked down one as far as I could
\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/p>\n

Then took the other, as just as fair,
\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,
\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;
\nThough as for that the passing there
\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/p>\n

And both that morning equally lay
\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.
\nOh, I kept the first for another day!
\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,
\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n

I shall be telling this with a sigh
\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:
\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I …
\nI took the one less traveled by,
\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n

(Robert Frost)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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