{"id":225,"date":"2012-07-31T23:18:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T23:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionexplorer.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2012-08-20T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T17:44:53","slug":"affirmation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/affirmation-2","title":{"rendered":"The Dream of Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the surest paths toward feelings of inadequacy and an inability to move forward in life is to set unrealistic goals for myself. That is, to have standards that represent \u201cgetting there\u201d that are so high that I always fall short. More likely, the effect of these overly high standards will be to keep me from ever beginning because the point of arrival looks too far away, and I cannot imagine how to find and take all of the intermediate steps. Today I will be realistic. I know that<br \/>\nthere is no such thing as perfect, so why should I worry about getting there? There is the here and now, and when I get there, it will be that day\u2019s here and now. I recognize that perfection is only an illusion, and I will learn to take daily pleasure and fulfillment from the process.<br \/>\nI live in today.<br \/>\nWe have trained them (men) to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain \u2013 not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.<br \/>\n<strong>C. S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the surest paths toward feelings of inadequacy and an inability to move forward in life is to set unrealistic goals for myself. That is, to have standards that represent \u201cgetting there\u201d that are so high that I always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/affirmation-2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiandayton.com\/emotionexplorer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}