{"id":5952,"date":"2019-12-25T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T01:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2019-12-25T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T01:51:42","slug":"2019-letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5952","title":{"rendered":"2019: Letting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3278\">2010<\/a>, it was a person. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3798\">2011<\/a>, it was an idea.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4147\">2012<\/a>, it was a symbol represented by a person.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4553\">2013<\/a>, I let go fear. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4955\">2014<\/a>, I let go of humility (or the desire to appear humble). In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5284\">2015<\/a>, I let go of perfection. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5583\">2016<\/a>, I let go of expectations. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5775\">2017<\/a>, I let go of things and people I don&#8217;t need. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5864\">2018<\/a>, I let go of constant discovery.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I let go of expectations.  For years, I know that I have expectations, especially from another, things don&#8217;t happen. What I do know is that you can make your own destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I believe that I demonstrate it through my ridiculous behavior of making sure everyone knows that it&#8217;s my birthday! :D<\/p>\n<p>I only know that I can make it happen.  If nothing happens, it&#8217;s not because the world isn&#8217;t listening, but it&#8217;s because I didn&#8217;t make an effort to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, my manager told everyone at an all-hands meeting about the best advice he ever received.  When he was young, tt was some random guy who pointed him and said, &#8220;You make it happen, captain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s about making it happen.<\/p>\n<p>The job. The &#8220;big&#8221; life changes.  The people around me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why? In 2010, it was a person. In 2011, it was an idea. In 2012, it was a symbol represented by a person. In 2013, I let go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5952\">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-5952","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\/5952","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=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}