{"id":666,"date":"2009-03-28T19:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=666"},"modified":"2009-03-28T19:25:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:25:34","slug":"a-balancing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"A Balancing Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post on Triiibes someone wrote <strong>&#8220;You Suck&#8221;<\/strong> as the title then went into how you shouldn&#8217;t be complacent &amp; that there&#8217;s always someone out there, bigger, better &amp; faster than you.<\/p>\n<p>This may well be, but beating yourself up and thinking you&#8217;re a pile of crap, isn&#8217;t a good approach or that productive, although on the flip side, bigging yourself up as the King of the World, ain&#8217;t doing you any favours either.<\/p>\n<p>If everyone thought they couldn&#8217;t take on those bigger, better &amp; faster, then nothing would ever change for the better. <strong>If you don&#8217;t believe in yourself, no one else will.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post on Triiibes someone wrote &#8220;You Suck&#8221; as the title then went into how you shouldn&#8217;t be complacent &amp; that there&#8217;s always someone out there, bigger, better &amp; faster than you. This may well be, but beating yourself up and thinking you&#8217;re a pile of crap, isn&#8217;t a good approach or that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[193,194,8,5],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","tag-belief","tag-confidence","tag-inspiration","tag-leading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}