{"id":4882,"date":"2014-08-13T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2014-08-06T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T05:34:32","slug":"you-have-to-start-to-be-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/you-have-to-start-to-be-great\/","title":{"rendered":"You have to start to be great"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Zig Ziglar<\/p>\n

Starting can be intimidating and scary.\u00a0 Starting means that you might end up failing and people might even see you fail.\u00a0 Starting means admitting something matters to you.\u00a0 Starting means admitting that you care.\u00a0\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 That\u2019s all true.\u00a0\u00a0 But starting is what you HAVE to do if you want to ever accomplish anything in life!<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t go after what you want, you\u2019ll never have it.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t ask, the answer will always be no. If you don\u2019t step forward, you are always in the same place.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You have to put yourself out there and try.\u00a0 You just do.\u00a0 And you have to stop worrying so much about failing and stop worrying about what other people may think or say.\u00a0 At the end of the day no one will care what someone else said, but everyone will care tremendously about what you actually did, and so will you!\u00a0 The proof is always in the actions, not the words.\u00a0 And you don\u2019t have to succeed at something to be successful.\u00a0 In my opinion successful is the result of trying your best even when it doesn\u2019t end up the way you wanted it to. \u00a0Successful is about the character of the person who had the courage to give it their best shot even when they knew it was a longshot.<\/p>\n

So today\u2019s challenge is to get out there and TRY! \u00a0START! And if your plan A doesn\u2019t work just keep going through the rest of those alphabet letters\u2026you still have plenty more to go \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 \u00a0Learn from every attempt you make, especially the attempts that feel life failures.\u00a0 Then be proud of yourself for starting, because it is starting that made you great!<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.\u201d \u2013 Zig Ziglar Starting can be intimidating and scary.\u00a0 Starting means that you might end up failing and people might even see you fail.\u00a0 Starting means admitting something matters to you.\u00a0 Starting means admitting that you care.\u00a0\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 That\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3752,"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":[1299,843,4765,168,1021,625,1475,46,4764,1203,155,224,4771,163,259,41,67,3157,83,171,4769,218,4767,837,100,34,1496,4773,4766,545,4770,3773,4325,112,834,4768,1378,149,1248,4772,894,273],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-actions","tag-admit","tag-admitting","tag-adversity","tag-amazing","tag-ask","tag-attempt","tag-attitude","tag-be-great","tag-care","tag-character","tag-confidence","tag-confidencet","tag-courage","tag-do","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-excel","tag-experience","tag-fail","tag-failing","tag-failure","tag-go-after","tag-great","tag-greatness","tag-integrity","tag-intimidated","tag-longshot","tag-matters","tag-move-forward","tag-others-think","tag-put-yourself-out-there","tag-say","tag-self-improvement","tag-start","tag-step-forward","tag-succeed","tag-success","tag-successful","tag-trys","tag-words","tag-zig-ziglar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882","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=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4884,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions\/4884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}