{"id":821,"date":"2009-07-13T19:11:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2009-07-13T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T13:41:31","slug":"20-life-learnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2009\/07\/20-life-learnings\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Life Learnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DumbLittleMan is an engaging blog on &#8220;tips for life&#8221; that&#8217;s neither little nor dumb by any standards.\u00a0 I find its content to be rich and insightful and full of wisdom.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a recent post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dumblittleman.com\/2008\/02\/20-things-im-glad-life-taught-me.html\" target=\"_blank\">20 Things I&#8217;m Glad Life Taught Me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here are 20 things that I personally came to understand and believe in. Your 20 could be totally different. Perhaps you only have 5, it doesn&#8217;t matter. The key is that you learn from your life, your failures and your successes&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You must create and look for opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Negativity will only bring more of it<\/li>\n<li>Where you are does not determine where you can go<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t help others, you can&#8217;t help yourself<\/li>\n<li>Follow your passion, money will follow<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy yourself<\/li>\n<li>If it were easy everyone would do it<\/li>\n<li>Planning is good but so is being spontaneous<\/li>\n<li>You have many talents<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t work hard without rewards<\/li>\n<li>Money does bring happiness<\/li>\n<li>Someone always has it worse<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll need others<\/li>\n<li>Being open-minded is the key to more knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Failure is great<\/li>\n<li>Most people are actually nice<\/li>\n<li>Words and thoughts control everything<\/li>\n<li>Your view is the reality<\/li>\n<li>Inspiration and motivation are everywhere<\/li>\n<li>You can change the world<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I found all of these to ring true with my own learnings from Life.\u00a0 While some of these I already believed, others served as a gentle reminder, and still others were a nice surprise!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dumblittleman.com\/2008\/02\/20-things-im-glad-life-taught-me.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to the site<\/a>, and you can also read the descriptions that accompany each of these powerful pearls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DumbLittleMan is an engaging blog on &#8220;tips for life&#8221; that&#8217;s neither little nor dumb by any standards.\u00a0 I find its content to be rich and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}