{"id":281,"date":"2011-07-28T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/viewing-failure-as-a-necessary-part-of-success\/"},"modified":"2012-03-05T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:45:45","slug":"viewing-failure-as-a-necessary-part-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/viewing-failure-as-a-necessary-part-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing &quot;Failure&quot; as a Necessary Part of Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-s4hNIu8_mQU\/TjFmLvB4CHI\/AAAAAAAAAJM\/q-er4vKv478\/s1600\/stumbling%2Bblock.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-s4hNIu8_mQU\/TjFmLvB4CHI\/AAAAAAAAAJM\/q-er4vKv478\/s400\/stumbling%2Bblock.jpg?resize=400%2C236\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"236\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8220;In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8211; Anonymous<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;ve been working toward your goals all year or you&#8217;re just getting started, it is important to remember that fitness goals are never attained over night. \u00a0Instead of getting discouraged because you haven&#8217;t lost twenty pounds or haven&#8217;t been able to run a consecutive mile, set a smaller goal you can accomplish in the meantime. \u00a0Before you can lose twenty pounds you&#8217;ve got to lose five. \u00a0Likewise, before you are able to complete a mile you&#8217;ve got to execute a quarter mile.<\/p>\n<p>Use small goals to encourage yourself to stay on track. \u00a0When you&#8217;re developing timelines for your larger goals make sure they are realistic. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t lose twenty pounds in twenty weeks or less don&#8217;t look at it as complete failure. \u00a0Keep at it and the twenty pounds will come off. \u00a0The key to success is consistency. \u00a0Use your stumbling blocks as reason to keep going and you can achieve the impossible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.&#8221; &#8211; Anonymous Whether you&#8217;ve been working toward your goals all year or you&#8217;re just getting started, it is important to remember that fitness goals are never attained over night. \u00a0Instead of getting discouraged because you haven&#8217;t lost twenty pounds or haven&#8217;t been able to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/viewing-failure-as-a-necessary-part-of-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Viewing &quot;Failure&quot; as a Necessary Part of Success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,8,7],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accountability","tag-goal-setting","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digorg.com\/napfitpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}