{"id":47153,"date":"2023-11-04T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T00:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47153"},"modified":"2023-11-04T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T00:11:51","slug":"what-a-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47153","title":{"rendered":"What A Circus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-47154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/What_A_Circus-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"What A Circus!\" width=\"756\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/What_A_Circus-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/What_A_Circus-768x777.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/What_A_Circus-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/What_A_Circus.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The truth is even more reason not to get eaten up by trivialities. The truth is that we are immortal, indestructible spiritual beings enjoying a mortal existence. The truth is that nothing can hurt you as a being unless you agree to being hurt.<\/p>\n<p>My advice? Stop being so damned agreeable to being hurt! Enjoy the ride! Decide what game you want to play then play it!<\/p>\n<p>The game you will enjoy most is one based on your basic purpose and for which you have a natural talent and suits your personality.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not know what your basic purpose is in life, here are some tips to find it.<\/p>\n<p>In chatting to many people I have been able to help them identify their basic purpose. It has always been a specialization of the desire to help.<\/p>\n<p>I think the problem is that we are not taught to look for it, to recognize and pursue it. In many cases we are dissuaded from it &#8211; &#8220;You can&#8217;t make enough money doing that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like some ideas on how to identify your basic purpose, here&#8217;s a blog post I wrote to help you:<\/p>\n<p>How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"V9bvy81uRK\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=37862\">How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life&#8221; &#8212; Tom&#039;s Blog on Life\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=37862&#038;embed=true#?secret=xlIfKMmPeN#?secret=V9bvy81uRK\" data-secret=\"V9bvy81uRK\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth is even more reason not to get eaten up by trivialities. The truth is that we are immortal, indestructible spiritual beings enjoying a mortal existence. The truth is that nothing can hurt you as a being unless you agree to being hurt. My advice? Stop being so damned agreeable to being hurt! Enjoy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What A Circus!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47153","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\/47153","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=47153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47155,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47153\/revisions\/47155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}