{"id":469,"date":"2014-04-06T14:19:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:31:30","slug":"day-17-of-84-days-of-84-ribbons-more-ballet-truths-more-life-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/04\/06\/day-17-of-84-days-of-84-ribbons-more-ballet-truths-more-life-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 17 of 84 Days of 84 Ribbons:  More Ballet Truths &#8211; More Life Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Day 13 I mentioned Melanie Doskocil&#8217;s blog, <em>Ballet Pages. <\/em>Here are two more universal truths worth contemplating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Someone else will always have more than you or be better than you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s money, fame or a position earned by hard work, eventually another person will take over your spot.\u00a0 Therefore, focus on what you can accomplish, do your best and be grateful for the experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The only person who can make you happy is you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The root of our happiness is our relationship with ourselves, What we fo affects our mood; what we feel affects our attitude, so strive to keep +learning, do your best and be happy with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to realize we&#8217;re expendable when we&#8217;ve put so much work into developing our skills, raising our family, following our dream.\u00a0 Looking back to the universals from day 13, I think being ready and able to relinquish our varied roles is difficult. We&#8217;ll never get everything we want and we&#8217;ll never be 100% ready for that change but, if we can see how we&#8217;ve influenced those who take out places perhaps that will ease the transition (for us).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Day 13 I mentioned Melanie Doskocil&#8217;s blog, Ballet Pages. Here are two more universal truths worth contemplating. &nbsp; 1. Someone else will always have more than you or be better than you. It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s money, fame or a position earned by hard work, eventually another person will take over your spot.\u00a0 Therefore, focus on what you can accomplish, do your best and be grateful for the experience. &nbsp; 2. The only person who can make you happy is you. The root of our happiness is our relationship with ourselves, What we fo affects our mood; what&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84-ribbons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}