{"id":10936,"date":"2015-05-02T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2024-07-04T04:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:45:56","slug":"famous-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10936","title":{"rendered":"Famous Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FamousFailures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10937\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FamousFailures-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"Famous Failures\" width=\"780\" height=\"686\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo you tried and failed?<br \/>\nGOOD!<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re on the road to success!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a trying road, a testing road, a challenging road.<br \/>\nBut doing things that matter is what matters.<br \/>\nThose who mind that you tried and failed don&#8217;t matter.<br \/>\nThose who matter don&#8217;t mind that you tried and failed.<br \/>\nWhat matters is that you matter.<br \/>\nGreatly.<br \/>\nBecause you have no limits to your beingness.<br \/>\nWhen you are being your true, native self you are far greater than anybody ever permitted to to believe.<br \/>\nWhen you assume that viewpoint you will contemplate vast action and vast results.<br \/>\nIt also matters that you are doing things that matter.<br \/>\nBecause what you do matters.<br \/>\nEven more greatly than who you are.<br \/>\nSo next time you are feeling REALLY good, grab some paper and write down what major matter you are going to address, what product you would like to accomplish.<br \/>\nThen work out what actions it will take to get the result you desire.<br \/>\nEnvision the result and take action.<br \/>\nYou want to change things?<br \/>\nDecide the product you want and take action to attain it.<br \/>\nYou want to feel better?<br \/>\nDecide the product you want and take action to attain it.<br \/>\nOnly action leads to a product.<br \/>\nYou and I want the product of a better society.<br \/>\nThe freedom from oppression.<br \/>\nWell, to get that product we need to take bigger action than has been taken.<br \/>\nWe need to get more people aboard.<br \/>\nIn whatever capacity they wish to contribute.<br \/>\nIf you cannot yet contemplate leading the charge in an area, find a group with whose product you agree and put your shoulder to their wheel.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zLYECIjmnQs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zLYECIjmnQs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you tried and failed? GOOD! You&#8217;re on the road to success! It&#8217;s a trying road, a testing road, a challenging road. But doing things that matter is what matters. Those who mind that you tried and failed don&#8217;t matter. Those who matter don&#8217;t mind that you tried and failed. What matters is that you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Famous Failures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53624,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions\/53624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}