<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" border="0" alt="jim stovall " class="alignleft" />Each of us that lives in a free society charts our own course and are masters of our own destiny.  </p>
<p>I realize not all of us enjoy total freedom in our personal and professional lives.  This realization should be a wake-up call to all of us who live in nations where we have the blessings that freedom brings.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/07/advice-about-adversity-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: Advice About Adversity By Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1134,"date":"2012-07-04T07:31:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2012-07-17T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:15:00","slug":"advice-about-adversity-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/07\/advice-about-adversity-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice About Adversity By Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-stovall-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"jim stovall \" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Each of us that lives in a free society charts our own course and are masters of our own destiny.  <\/p>\n<p>I realize not all of us enjoy total freedom in our personal and professional lives.  This realization should be a wake-up call to all of us who live in nations where we have the blessings that freedom brings.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/07\/advice-about-adversity-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Advice About Adversity By Jim Stovall\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"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":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}