{"id":1848,"date":"2006-07-28T22:28:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T05:28:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jeff, I have been nearly a regular reader of <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com\/\\\">iwillteachyoutoberich<\/a>, a blog of a  young entrepreneur with great financial and life advice.  Although he\\&#8217;s cocky and arrognant, there were some \\&#8221;duh why didn\\&#8217;t i think of that!\\&#8221; tips.<\/p>\n<p>But what I like is the entire philosophy which is: Save more than you spend, but do not be afraid to seize opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, carpe diem.  With due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>I am a hypocrite, because like many people, I am stifled by fear of failure.  Fear of embarrassment.  Fear of intrusion into places not mine.  Fear of rejection.  But it\\&#8217;s overcoming that fear that new opportunities appear.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine is visiting the Bay Area this Friday.  I probably won\\&#8217;t see him for more than 6+ months and I barely know him.  I am starting my new job Tuesday and can see work extending into long hours.  San Francisco is nearly an hour commute from my house.  My first reaction to his visit was <i>I will be too tired<\/i>  <i>there will be too much work<\/i>  <i>i\\&#8217;ll be busy<\/i>.  But I realized I could lose out.  Sleep is not an obstacle when there are opportunities for the future.<\/p>\n<p>When I am 30, I don\\&#8217;t want to look back and think that I was too lazy.  Or worse yet, I was too fearful.<\/p>\n<p>Next: submit something for publication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jeff, I have been nearly a regular reader of iwillteachyoutoberich, a blog of a young entrepreneur with great financial and life advice. Although he\\&#8217;s cocky and arrognant, there were some \\&#8221;duh why didn\\&#8217;t i think of that!\\&#8221; tips. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}