{"id":3689,"date":"2017-08-16T05:39:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T22:48:00","slug":"you-either-want-it-or-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/you-either-want-it-or-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"You Either Want It or You Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>Putting up with it is the same as endorsing it.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Quote attributed to Larry Winget)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it: you either want it or you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s &#8220;it&#8221;?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Could be that roll of fat around your gut<\/li>\n<li>Could be the dust in your wallet<\/li>\n<li>Could be your ability to maintain a loving relationship<\/li>\n<li>Could be anything you keep putting up with, but can&#8217;t stand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>If you&#8217;re putting up with it, you&#8217;re endorsing it<\/h3>\n<p>You get what you settle for, friend.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>If you can stand the situation, it will persist.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll do what needs to be done to change it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roadturn Challenge<\/strong>: Consider something in your life you&#8217;re sick and tired of. (Don&#8217;t start with your spouse, though :). It&#8217;s probably better to choose something simple to practice on &#8212; like that perennial sink of dirty dishes, or a car in severe need of cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>Decide, right now, whether you can live with it the way it is, or whether the situation is going to HAVE to change. I&#8217;m not asking you to DO anything here, just to make a decision. Do that, and the solution will follow.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide you CAN live with things the way they are, then quit griping and stressing about the situation. Give yourself and everyone else a break.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide you CAN&#8217;T put up with it, then make your decision. This MUST change. Put you foot down. Draw the line. Make up your mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roadturn Principle<\/strong>: In the end, you always get what you&#8217;ll settle for.<\/p>\n<p>How does that feel?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting up with it is the same as endorsing it. (Quote attributed to Larry Winget) Let&#8217;s face it: you either want it or you don&#8217;t. What&#8217;s &#8220;it&#8221;? Could be that roll of fat around your gut Could be the dust in your wallet Could be your ability to maintain a loving relationship Could be anything [&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\/3689"}],"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=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35964,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions\/35964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}