{"id":3449,"date":"2017-07-01T18:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2017-07-01T18:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T18:51:24","slug":"if-you-dont-do-this-who-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/if-you-dont-do-this-who-will\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Don&#8217;t Do This&#8230; Who Will?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>If you don&#8217;t design your own life plan, chances are you&#8217;ll fall into someone else&#8217;s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. (Jim Rohn)<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tough pill to swallow, but one we all need to learn at some point in life: we&#8217;re the ones making our own bed. Nobody else has the power to make my life choices.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The quality of my life is very much up to me.<\/li>\n<li>The quality of my health is very much up to me.<\/li>\n<li>The quality of my relationships is very much up to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3462\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Rohn#\/media\/File:Jim-rohn-PASSES-AWAY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3462\" src=\"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jim_rohn_cc-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Rohn photo\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Rohn &#8211; creative commons photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oh, I might TRY to blame someone else for my wrong decisions, or I might TRY to put the responsibility for myself off on another person&#8230; but that&#8217;s always a huge mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Watch yourself for the tendency to say things like &#8220;I&#8217;d love to eat better, but it&#8217;s impossible in my family&#8221; or &#8220;How can I possibly workout on a regular basis when I have to take care of everybody else?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The airlines tell you to put your own oxygen mask on first.<\/p>\n<p>If YOU don&#8217;t take care of YOU&#8230; who will?<\/p>\n<p>Christians can especially have trouble with this concept. We&#8217;re supposed to be self-sacrificing and not care about our own comfort&#8230; right? Yes, we are to serve others&#8230; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Mark+12%3A30-31&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scripture says<\/a> &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself&#8221;&#8230; not INSTEAD of yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t design your own life plan, chances are you&#8217;ll fall into someone else&#8217;s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. (Jim Rohn) It&#8217;s a tough pill to swallow, but one we all need to learn at some point in life: we&#8217;re the ones making our own bed. Nobody else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}