{"id":819,"date":"2011-04-21T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewliberty.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2011-04-21T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:22:54","slug":"ponder-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threeadventure.com\/matthewliberty\/2011\/04\/21\/ponder-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponder This"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em\">\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Thinker%2C_Rodin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A photo of The Thinker by Rodin located at the...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/5\/56\/The_Thinker%2C_Rodin.jpg\/300px-The_Thinker%2C_Rodin.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of The Thinker by Rodin located at the...\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Quick thought for the day&#8230;no answers, no anything&#8230;just some thoughts I was having.<\/p>\n<p>What if we spent less time being critical and more time being helpful? It is SOOOOO in our nature to complain and criticize but not a single thing ever in the history of all thing forever was ever fixed or made better by complaining or criticizing. So why does this continue? Not sure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also quite curious as to why we are so deathly afraid of being wrong or screwing up, and then admitting that we had. Life is too short to be perfect people, screw up, admit it, learn from it, and move forward!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening, cheers!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=400ec32c-679d-4aaa-8146-447a25a15072\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick thought for the day&#8230;no answers, no anything&#8230;just some thoughts I was having. 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