{"id":369,"date":"2015-03-28T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-03-28T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T15:19:35","slug":"suggestions-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions for a successful life"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.<\/li>\n<li>Work at something you enjoy and that\u2019s worthy of your time and talent.<\/li>\n<li>Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.<\/li>\n<li>Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.<\/li>\n<li>Be forgiving of yourself and others.<\/li>\n<li>Be generous.<\/li>\n<li>Have grateful heart.<\/li>\n<li>Persistence, persistence, persistence.<\/li>\n<li>Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.<\/li>\n<li>Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.<\/li>\n<li>Commit yourself to constant improvement and to quality.<\/li>\n<li>Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.<\/li>\n<li>Be loyal.<\/li>\n<li>Be honest.<\/li>\n<li>Be a self-starter.<\/li>\n<li>Be decisive even if it means you\u2019ll sometimes be wrong.<\/li>\n<li>Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.<\/li>\n<li>Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you\u2019ll regret the things you didn\u2019t do more than the ones you did.<\/li>\n<li>Take good care of those you love.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t do anything that wouldn\u2019t make your Mom proud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 This is a list taken from a poster that was forever hanging in our family rec room. Though it is no longer on the wall, today, most all points are committed to memory.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy and that\u2019s worthy of your time and talent. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know. Be forgiving of yourself and others. Be generous&#8230;.<\/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":[21,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"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=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6238,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/6238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}