{"id":2063,"date":"2014-10-26T14:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T18:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2014-10-26T14:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T18:01:45","slug":"time-to-put-an-end-to-drifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/2014\/10\/26\/time-to-put-an-end-to-drifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to put an end to drifting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A colleague of mine told me about Napoleon Hill\u2019s book Unwitting the Devil<\/em> months ago, and a few weeks ago finally bought\"quote-every-day-you-spend-drifting-away-from-your-goals-is-a-waste-not-only-of-that-day-but-also-of-the-ralph-marston-120367\"<\/a> it.\u00a0 I started reading it on Monday, and I\u2019m already half way through it. If you haven\u2019t read it yet, I highly suggest it. I admire Napoleon Hill\u2019s ability to share his wisdom in such a timeless manner.\u00a0 If you\u2019re read Think and Grow Rich<\/em> you know what I mean!<\/p>\n

In Unwitting the Devil<\/em>, the concept of the drifter is discussed, and it made me wonder how many of us are willing to admit that we\u2019re drifting through life? In the book, a drifter is defined as someone who has a \u201ctotal lack of a major purpose in life.\u201d It goes through a list of the many characteristics of a drifter, including eating too much with little exercise, never finishing what you start, indecisiveness, judgement and laziness. A drifter is someone who goes through life passively, being controlled by life\u2019s events rather than taking control of his\/her life.<\/p>\n

I think that we all have had moments of drifting. I know that after my father died, my drifting became more obvious and more uncomfortable. It was in the years afterwards that I finally began to take control of my life; making a plan, taking responsibility and taking action. There are moments when things become challenging, that it is tempting to revert back to drifting, to feeling sorry for myself and that nothing I do matters anyway. The drifting doesn\u2019t last long though. It doesn\u2019t even feel right. If it doesn\u2019t feel good, I\u2019ve learned that you have to keep going until you find a state of mind you feel good about.<\/p>\n

In the book, there would appear that there is a point of no return in drifting. That you can drift for so long that there\u2019s no coming back from it. That\u2019s a worrisome thought. To think that some of us will be condemned to live a life of drifting saddens me. It also empowers me with the will to ensure that this isn\u2019t my fate. I believe that I have a purpose, a gift that I was meant to share with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re still not sure about what your purpose is, I can help! If you already know what you were put here to do, then tell me how I can support you in sharing your gift with the world. I feel like it\u2019s our duty to help one another and nip drifting in the bud before it is too late! Are you up to joining this challenge with me?\u00a0\u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A colleague of mine told me about Napoleon Hill\u2019s book Unwitting the Devil months ago, and a few weeks ago finally bought it.\u00a0 I started reading it on Monday, and I\u2019m already half way through it. If you haven\u2019t read it yet, I highly suggest it. I admire Napoleon Hill\u2019s ability to share his wisdom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[597,383,703,609,445,789,398,588,790],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtoftheday","tag-achievement","tag-achieving-goals","tag-clarity","tag-focus","tag-goals","tag-life-fulfillment","tag-napoleon-hill","tag-success","tag-unwitting-the-devil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}