{"id":2748,"date":"2012-01-12T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2012-01-12T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T21:15:10","slug":"motivational-verse-winners-are-people-like-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"Motivational Verse: Winners Are People Like You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winners take chances Like everyone else, they fear failing,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

but they refuse to let fear control them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Winners don’t give up. When life gets rough,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

they hang in until the going gets better.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners are flexible. They realize there is more than one way<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and are willing to try others.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners know they are not perfect. They respect their weaknesses<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

while making the most of their strengths.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners fall but they don’t stay down. They stubbornly refuse<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

to let a fall keep them from climbing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners don’t blame fate for their failures,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

nor luck for their successes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners accept responsibility for their lives.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners are positive thinkers who see good in all things.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

From the ordinary, they make the extraordinary.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners believe in the path they have chosen even when it is hard,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

even when others can’t see where they are going.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners are patient. They know a goal is only worthy as the effort<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

that is required to achieve it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Winners are people that believe in themselves. They make<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

this world a better place to be.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWinners Are People Like You\u201d was written by Nancye Sims. (ed. – Although it is a favourite\u00a0verse of ours, it\u00a0failed to make the final edit of the selected verse within “A Day in the Life of Man”<\/a> –\u00a0our\u00a0provocative collection of daily thought.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winners take chances Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them. \u00a0Winners don’t give up. When life gets rough, they hang in until the going gets better. Winners are flexible. They realize there is more than one way and are willing to try others. Winners know they are not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}