{"id":769,"date":"2019-11-29T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T03:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2023-06-29T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:45:32","slug":"taking-road-less-traveled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/2019\/11\/29\/taking-road-less-traveled\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking The Road Less Traveled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am certain you know the road I am referring to. It may very well be that you&#8217;re on such a path now? It&#8217;s rarely an easy one and often filled with those that make claims that things can&#8217;t be done.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever noticed that when you&#8217;re attempting to pursue something new in your life you run across people that (often unknowingly) fill you with doubts? When this happens it&#8217;s imperative that we keep in mind that it&#8217;s not necessarily that they doubt us, but rather that they doubt that they would be capable of pulling off such an effort themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I think we all have a tendency to try and base a task on our own experiences. For example, you might say to me &#8220;Josh, what do you think of me climbing Mount Fuji?&#8221;. Now since I am not big on heights, if I were to base your question on my own life experiences I would say that sounds like a crazy idea! The sad part is that if you were to take my answer as the absolute truth you might have missed another great adventure in your life.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s your life, LIVE BIG<br \/>\nJosh Hinds<\/p>\n<p>* Author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/successpack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Perfect Timing is a Myth: Tips for Staying Inspired and Motivated Day in and Day out!<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0089LOGYS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0089LOGYS&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=themotivationame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s Your Life, Live BIG<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=themotivationame&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0089LOGYS\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CPVF9M6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00CPVF9M6&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=themotivationame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motivational Quotes for Living BIG<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=themotivationame&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00CPVF9M6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am certain you know the road I am referring to. It may very well be that you&#8217;re on such a path now? It&#8217;s rarely an easy one and often filled with those that make claims that things can&#8217;t be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}