{"id":723,"date":"2012-02-25T21:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2012-02-23T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T04:44:13","slug":"723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/723\/","title":{"rendered":"A setback can lead us to a better place\u2014if we just let it."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><p>Lately, I have been pondering the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/spirit\/How-to-Turn-a-Failure-Into-Success\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">idea of failure<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> and considering that maybe there really is no such thing. What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being&#8217;s way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how well we think we know ourselves, we all have blind spots. And we all have an inner being that connects with something much wiser than ourselves, that sees the larger picture of our journey toward wisdom and wholeness.\u00a0 All too often, when we rely only on our conscious mind, we resist or overlook opportunities to grow. So our spirit has to get our attention. Failures are a very efficient way of doing just that. Cheers to a better place!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I have been pondering the idea of failure and considering that maybe there really is no such thing. What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being&#8217;s way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth. No matter how well we think we know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}