{"id":7149,"date":"2016-08-17T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2016-08-17T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T19:31:12","slug":"extraordinary-takes-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/extraordinary-takes-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary Takes Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe[\/he} was never meant to be a common creature \u2013 extraordinary takes time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Can I just say how much I love that quote \u2013 do you want to know why? Because it is so easy to go through life being so hard on yourself for not being perfect right this second, when the reality is that being perfect is definitely not possible! I love the quote because it reminds us that becoming the best person we can be takes time! It takes patience and a series of trial and errors in which we fall down, get back up, brush ourselves off, and keep going! And it\u2019s okay that we aren\u2019t perfect yet\u2026what matters is that we are working towards it with confidence that we are meant to be extraordinary and so keeping our efforts full steam ahead toward that goal.<\/p>\n

Instead of worrying that you may not be enough, try thinking that you may just be amazing beyond your wildest dreams! You may just be meant to become the next great artist, or musician, or business person\u2026it\u2019s true! It could absolutely happen\u2026all you have to do is imagine it, work towards it, and give life a chance to take you there!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is not \u201cWill you find your wings?\u201d It\u2019s \u201cWhat are you going to wear with all those magnificent feathers?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Have an Extraordinary day everyone \u2013 because you, in fact, are just that!<\/p>\n

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Have a magnificent day!<\/p>\n

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

\u201cShe[\/he} was never meant to be a common creature \u2013 extraordinary takes time.\u201d Can I just say how much I love that quote \u2013 do you want to know why? Because it is so easy to go through life being so hard on yourself for not being perfect right this second, when the reality is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6690,"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":[248,3741,8843,1021,395,174,468,46,10640,10641,903,368,10644,10648,4178,224,163,778,3978,219,57,5966,433,10655,171,178,5656,10653,170,571,4876,2920,10652,364,365,76,10639,231,391,10650,10649,10642,3617,2921,545,10647,10645,432,1930,1488,1480,10643,1773,1378,98,78,344,10654,10646,6201,10651,173],"class_list":["post-7149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ability","tag-aim","tag-aim-high","tag-amazing","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-anxiety","tag-artist","tag-attitude","tag-become-the-best","tag-being-perfect","tag-belief","tag-believe","tag-brush-off","tag-business-person","tag-common","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-depression","tag-dont-give-up","tag-dream","tag-easy","tag-error","tag-extraordinary","tag-extraordinary-takes-time","tag-fail","tag-faith","tag-fall-down","tag-feathers","tag-fly","tag-focus","tag-full-steam-ahead","tag-get-up","tag-give-life-a-chance","tag-goal","tag-goal-setting","tag-goals","tag-hard-on-yourself","tag-hope","tag-imagine","tag-imagine-it","tag-it-could-happen","tag-it-takes-time","tag-just-do-it","tag-keep-going","tag-move-forward","tag-musician","tag-not-enough","tag-ordinary","tag-patient","tag-perfect","tag-perfection","tag-perfection-takes-time","tag-quote","tag-succeed","tag-talent","tag-time","tag-trial","tag-uncommon","tag-wildest-dreams","tag-wings","tag-work-toward-it","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149","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=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7162,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions\/7162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}