{"id":4792,"date":"2014-07-15T19:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T01:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2014-07-08T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:02:22","slug":"a-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/a-good-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u201cA good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realize how blessed you are.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 &#8211; Anonymous<\/p>\n<p>Is it really that simple to have a good life?\u00a0 In many ways I actually believe it is.\u00a0 I really think that so much of our level of happiness in life depends on us \u2013 on our own attitude and how we handle the circumstances life throws us.\u00a0 But without question it is a daily challenge to keep our own attitudes in check.\u00a0 I know it is a daily struggle for me.\u00a0 I have to constantly remind myself to \u201csnap out of it\u201d, or to \u201clet it go\u201d, or to \u201csee the positive\u201d, or to \u201cstop stressing out\u201d, or that \u201cit will all be okay in the end\u201d.\u00a0 Some days I wish that it wouldn\u2019t take so much reminding for me to recognize what I already know in my heart \u2013 MY LIFE WILL BE AS HAPPY AS I DECIDE TO LET IT BE.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that is the case for all of us.\u00a0 We have to tell ourselves to do the things in the opening quote \u2013 assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realize how blessed we are.\u00a0 If we can do those things every day then of course we will be happy.\u00a0 Even in hard times those things will help us stay happy and positive.\u00a0 And that equates to a very\u00a0 GOOD LIFE!<\/p>\n<p>Have a HAPPY DAY!<\/p>\n<p>~Amy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realize how blessed you are.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; Anonymous Is it really that simple to have a good life?\u00a0 In many ways I actually believe it is.\u00a0 I really think that so much of our level of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[501,4523,46,368,550,4528,4526,778,1786,219,3095,3157,364,606,2004,55,629,439,464,181,4530,4525,64,53,4524,1068,3497,1745,349,4527,1051,1050,4531,112,81,4529,941,4532,1439,172,418],"class_list":["post-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appreciate","tag-assume","tag-attitude","tag-believe","tag-blessed","tag-daily-challenge","tag-depends-on-us","tag-depression","tag-do-more","tag-dream","tag-end","tag-excel","tag-goal","tag-good","tag-good-life","tag-happiness","tag-inspiration","tag-inspire","tag-joy","tag-laugh","tag-let-it-go","tag-level-of-happiness","tag-life","tag-motivation","tag-need-less","tag-negativity","tag-okay","tag-optimism","tag-peace","tag-question","tag-realize","tag-recognize","tag-see-the-positive","tag-self-improvement","tag-smile","tag-snap-out-of-it","tag-stressed","tag-stressing-out","tag-struggle","tag-try","tag-wish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}