{"id":7962,"date":"2017-04-11T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2017-04-10T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T03:56:34","slug":"we-dont-know-until-weve-tried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/we-dont-know-until-weve-tried\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t know until we\u2019ve tried"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTrust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Insist on yourself; never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. There is a time in every man\u2019s education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. The power which resides in him is new in Nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n

I am a firm believer that we are infinitely more capable then we believe that we are. Our natural tendency is to think we have limitations on us, to assume we aren\u2019t capable of doing everything, but the reality is that our capacity to accomplish and endure is far beyond what we give ourselves credit for. But we will never find out just what our true capacity is to accomplish until we try! We have to be willing to try new things, to try hard things, to attempt the seemingly impossible with an attitude of believing its possible. God already knows what potential we have within us, but we still don\u2019t know, and we never will know until we try\u2026<\/p>\n

You Can Be Whatever You Want To Be<\/u> (by Donna Levine)<\/p>\n

There is inside you
\nAll of the potential
\nTo be whatever you want to be;
\nAll of the energy
\nTo do whatever you want to do.
\nImagine yourself as you would like to be,
\nDoing what you want to do,
\nAnd each day, take one step
\nTowards your dream.
\nAnd though at times it may seem too
\ndifficult to continue,
\nHold on to your dream.
\nOne morning you will awake to find
\nThat you are the person you dreamed of,
\nDoing what you wanted to do,
\nSimply because you had the courage
\nTo believe in your potential
\nAnd to hold on to your dream.<\/p>\n

Have a beautiful day everyone!<\/p>\n

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

\u201cTrust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Insist on yourself; never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. There is a time in every man\u2019s education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7142,"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":[395,501,1475,46,368,224,11224,163,96,2366,13114,1718,219,249,41,67,178,4045,76,13115,244,65,180,8841,13112,391,513,38,53,153,1038,974,3471,27,112,149,13111,13113,172,13110],"class_list":["post-7962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-attempt","tag-attitude","tag-believe","tag-confidence","tag-conviction","tag-courage","tag-culture","tag-difficult","tag-do-what-you-want-to-do","tag-do-your-best","tag-dream","tag-energy","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-faith","tag-give-it-your-all","tag-goals","tag-god-already-knows","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-happy","tag-have-courage","tag-hold-on-to-your-dreams","tag-imagine","tag-knowledge","tag-leadership","tag-motivation","tag-positive","tag-potential","tag-power","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-success","tag-take-one-step","tag-the-person-you-dreamed-of","tag-try","tag-whatever-you-want-to-be"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962","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=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7963,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions\/7963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}