{"id":3696,"date":"2017-08-18T04:20:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T22:47:19","slug":"you-must-be-convinced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/you-must-be-convinced\/","title":{"rendered":"You Must Be Convinced of This One Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Quote attributed to U.S. President John F. Kennedy)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You&#8217;ve decided something about your present situation isn&#8217;t acceptable. You refuse to put up with it. You&#8217;re ready for change.<\/p>\n<p>But moving from griping and resenting to doing something about it requires \u00a0a &#8216;program of action.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>If nothing changes, nothing changes.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one thing you must be convinced of before that can happen: the costs of taking action are far less than the costs you&#8217;re suffering right now by doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>You get what you settle for.<\/p>\n<p>Roadturn Challenge: Pick one thing in your life that absolutely must change. Write it down. Then make two columns. In the first, write down what it&#8217;s costing you to do nothing. In the second, write down what it will take to change the situation. Then weigh the two. Which is most expensive?<\/p>\n<p>Roadturn Principle: We&#8217;re always making our own bed. If you don&#8217;t like it, change it.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. (Quote attributed to U.S. President John F. Kennedy) You&#8217;ve decided something about your present situation isn&#8217;t acceptable. You refuse to put up with it. You&#8217;re ready for change. But moving from [&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\/3696"}],"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=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35963,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/35963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}