{"id":6856,"date":"2016-06-06T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=6856"},"modified":"2016-06-04T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:15:19","slug":"never-follow-someone-elses-pathwell-unless-youre-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/never-follow-someone-elses-pathwell-unless-youre-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Never follow someone else\u2019s path\u2026well, unless you\u2019re lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFollow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else\u2019s path unless you\u2019re in the woods and you\u2019re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.\u201d-<\/span> Ellen Degeneres<\/p>\n

First off all Ellen Degeneres cracks me up. Her humor can\u2019t help but make you smile. And I love that she enjoys dancing the same way my family does. Everything is happier when you dance your way through it!<\/p>\n

Even though her quote is cute and funny, it still gives some really sound advice. Follow your passion and stay true to yourself\u2026figure out who you want to be\u2026figure out what your talents and abilities are\u2026don\u2019t just look to others to see what they do because newsflash \u2013 you aren\u2019t them! You are you and your path is meant to be your own. That\u2019s why we each have unique talents\u2026we are all our own unique piece to this great big puzzle that when it is all put together makes this incredible picture. But if you try and force your piece into someone else\u2019s spot not only will it never perfectly fit there, you will end up leaving a gaping hole where your piece was meant to go and the picture will never be complete\u2026and let\u2019s be honest…there is nothing more annoying than looking at a puzzle that has a missing piece!\u00a0 Seriously #majorpetpeeve<\/p>\n

I think its vital to recognize that no one piece of the puzzle is better than any other piece\u2026they are each different but they all represent equal significance when it comes to the overall picture. Any one missing piece creates the same hole in the picture, therefore, they all matter the exact same. Every piece is needed and every piece must end up in its proper place to make the picture complete.<\/p>\n

Figure out what place your piece fits. Don\u2019t aspire to be any other piece. Aspire to find where you fit and then take your place that only you can fill in this picture called life.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna be a great day!<\/p>\n

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

\u201cFollow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else\u2019s path unless you\u2019re in the woods and you\u2019re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.\u201d- Ellen Degeneres First off all Ellen Degeneres cracks me up. Her humor can\u2019t help but make you smile. And I love that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6838,"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":[738,976,6653,395,501,6607,46,3315,4907,2468,89,10014,1846,10025,10013,717,41,1407,10017,10021,10018,10028,792,29,10029,386,1477,10020,285,2341,494,378,87,233,10019,4462,3534,10015,1511,10023,10016,1233,496,112,10024,28,736,10022,965,10027,10026],"class_list":["post-6856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abilities","tag-ambition","tag-ambitious","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-aspire","tag-attitude","tag-belong","tag-big-picture","tag-complete","tag-dance","tag-dance-your-way-through","tag-different","tag-dont-follow-someone-elses-path","tag-ellen-degeneres","tag-enjoy","tag-entrepreneur","tag-equal","tag-equal-but-different","tag-equal-importance","tag-find-your-passion","tag-fit","tag-gifts","tag-god","tag-god-given-gifts","tag-god-given-talent","tag-grow","tag-hole","tag-humor","tag-importance","tag-important","tag-improve","tag-laughter","tag-learn","tag-missing-piece","tag-necessary","tag-needed","tag-pet-peeve","tag-progress","tag-proper-place","tag-puzzle-piece","tag-represent","tag-self-worth","tag-self-improvement","tag-stay-true-to-yourself","tag-talents","tag-unique","tag-vital","tag-whole","tag-your-journey","tag-your-path"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856","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=6856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6857,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions\/6857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}