{"id":50,"date":"2009-02-17T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/abundance-inspiration-and-a-new-favorite-quote\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:25:07","slug":"abundance-inspiration-and-a-new-favorite-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/abundance-inspiration-and-a-new-favorite-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Abundance, Inspiration, and a new favorite quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a frequent reader of Chris Guillebeau over at <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisguillebeau.com\/3x5\/\">The Art of Non Conformity<\/a>.  He seems to be a good guy and have some great advice on unconventional life strategies.  I read enough, actually maybe too much, about personal development and non conventional living, so sometimes I just skim a lot of these articles.  I am at a point in my life where I know what I need to know to make a change, now it&#8217;s up to me to finally put into action what I have been reading for the past few years.  For some reason I just can&#8217;t seem to get over the invisible hump I am facing.  There are times when I am flowing with ideas, inspiration, and creativity, yet at other times I get down on myself and wonder what the heck I am doing.  During these times, the inspiration fades and I find myself cursing these people whos websites I follow, wondering how they&#8217;ve made it happen while I seem to be running in place.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when I read this <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisguillebeau.com\/3x5\/expanding-the-pie\/\">latest post over at The Art of Non Comformity<\/a>, it was truly inspirational to me.  It was the first time in reading his blog that he shared a lot the struggles he&#8217;s been having as of late.  Not that I am happy he is struggling and second guessing himself, but seeing someone who in my eyes has been rather successful strugglimg with issues tht are similiar to what I and we all face each day makes him a bit more of an inspiration.  So head over there and <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisguillebeau.com\/3x5\/\">check him out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Also, a new motto to live by?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading Ayn Rand&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0451187849%3Fie%3DUTF8%26tag%3Didealistcafe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D1789%26creativeASIN%3D0451187849&amp;tag=idealistcafe-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">We The Living<\/a>, which lead me to do some research about Rand herself.  During that time I stumbled onto a quote of hers which I&#8217;d like to make me new motto.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question isn&#8217;t who is going to let me; it&#8217;s who is going to stop me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a frequent reader of Chris Guillebeau over at The Art of Non Conformity.  He seems to be a good guy and have some great advice on unconventional life strategies.  I read enough, actually maybe too much, about personal development and non conventional living, so sometimes I just skim a lot of these articles.  I am at a point in my life where I know what I need to know to make a change, now it&#8217;s up to me to finally put into action what I have been reading for the past few years.  For some reason I just can&#8217;t seem to get over the invisible hump I am facing.  There are times when I am flowing with ideas, inspiration, and creativity, yet at other times I get down on myself and wonder what the heck I am doing.  During these times, the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/abundance-inspiration-and-a-new-favorite-quote\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[152],"tags":[67,50,47,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}