<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-medium" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/apryl-schlueter-motivational-author.jpg" alt="Apryl Schlueter inspirational author and coach" width="145" height="223" />When I decided to become an author, I knew that the story I wanted to share was a rather personal one, and I wanted to make sure what was captured in Finding Success in Balance was 100% mine.</p>
<p>For many years, I spent time worrying about the implications of any actions I took; “What will they think? Will they like me? What if I am judged in a negative way? Am I good enough?” These thoughts and questions were exactly the language that prevented me from achieving a lot of the success I craved. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2017/06/my-journey-to-the-cheerful-mind/" title="Permanent Link: The influences behind &#8220;Finding Success in Balance: My Journey to The Cheerful Mind&#8221;" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2989,"date":"2017-06-28T07:25:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2020-12-19T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:25:07","slug":"my-journey-to-the-cheerful-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2017\/06\/my-journey-to-the-cheerful-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"The influences behind &#8220;Finding Success in Balance: My Journey to The Cheerful Mind&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/apryl-schlueter-motivational-author.jpg\" alt=\"Apryl Schlueter inspirational author and coach\" width=\"145\" height=\"223\" \/>When I decided to become an author, I knew that the story I wanted to share was a rather personal one, and I wanted to make sure what was captured in Finding Success in Balance was 100% mine.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, I spent time worrying about the implications of any actions I took; \u201cWhat will they think? Will they like me? What if I am judged in a negative way? Am I good enough?\u201d These thoughts and questions were exactly the language that prevented me from achieving a lot of the success I craved. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2017\/06\/my-journey-to-the-cheerful-mind\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The influences behind &#8220;Finding Success in Balance: My Journey to The Cheerful Mind&#8221;\" 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\/2989"}],"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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}