{"id":3581,"date":"2017-07-23T00:11:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2017-07-23T00:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:11:51","slug":"how-long-has-it-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/how-long-has-it-been\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Has It Been?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span draggable=\"false\">One of the greatest moments in life is realizing that two weeks ago your body couldn&#8217;t do what it just did.<\/span><span draggable=\"false\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Anonymous &#8211; Author Not Known)<\/p>\n<p>One way to boost today&#8217;s encouragement level is by looking ahead to the goal &#8212; to the end result being sought.<\/p>\n<p>If my goal is to lose weight, for instance, I can sometimes stay strong enough to pass on the cookies and ice cream by remembering my vision. I can recall how I looked and felt when I was in better shape, \u00a0and I can reaffirm my desire to get there.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something you can do to leverage today&#8217;s desire in order to make tomorrow better.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3583\" src=\"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/kettlebell-love.288.pop_.jpg\" alt=\"Loving Kettlebells\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" \/>Challenge<\/strong>: Choose something you&#8217;d like to accomplish over the next 15 days. Make it something that&#8217;ll make a noticeable difference in your life &#8212; something you can&#8217;t do now, but really do want to do.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s run a certain distance, lose a certain amount of weight, or stand up for yourself better at work. You decide.<\/p>\n<p>NEXT, set the attainment of that goal as a priority. Decide how you can reach it within two weeks, then act on that plan. Share your decision with friends for extra credit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roadturn Principle<\/strong>: The secret to success: Make this day &#8220;some day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question<\/strong>: How long has it been since you felt the thrill of doing something today you couldn&#8217;t do two weeks ago? Is it time to get back into action?<\/p>\n<p>Today is the day to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest moments in life is realizing that two weeks ago your body couldn&#8217;t do what it just did.\u00a0 (Anonymous &#8211; Author Not Known) One way to boost today&#8217;s encouragement level is by looking ahead to the goal &#8212; to the end result being sought. If my goal is to lose weight, for [&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\/3581"}],"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=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}