{"id":529,"date":"2007-09-19T13:17:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2007-09-19T13:17:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T19:17:59","slug":"motivational-monday-the-glad-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/motivational-monday-the-glad-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivational Monday: The Glad Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses<\/strong>. &#8211;<em>Confucius<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trying really hard with this one today. It seems that people are more inclined to remember injuries and to be honest, I\u2019m one of them. Learning to let go of personal injuries to the emotions is a hard lesson, but not impossible. Lately I\u2019ve been playing the \u2018glad game\u2019. Remember PollyAnna?  If you\u2019ve never read that book, take a chance and read it. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2018glad game\u2019 is taking the time to think of ways to be glad over everything that happens to you. The harder it is, the better it is for your soul. For example\u2026you didn\u2019t get the promotion you wanted or a job you wanted didn\u2019t come through. Well, perhaps you can be glad that you don\u2019t have to spend the extra time on the job and you can spend it with your loved ones instead. Maybe you need eyeglasses, but you can be glad you are not blind, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The Glad Game is hard, but easier than living with constant regret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. &#8211;Confucius I\u2019m trying really hard with this one today. It seems that people are more inclined to remember injuries and to be honest, I\u2019m one of them. Learning to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,64,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-development","category-conflict-and-anger","category-mental-environment","category-stress-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}