{"id":25001,"date":"2022-03-25T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=25001"},"modified":"2023-01-16T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T13:52:07","slug":"25001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=25001","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/randywells_B1A7841p2bs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/randywells_B1A7841p2bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/randywells_B1A7841p2bs.jpg 550w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/randywells_B1A7841p2bs-330x209.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/randywells_B1A7841p2bs-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT<br \/>\nDON&#8217;T ASSUME ANYTHING <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I could be a life coach. If only I wasn&#8217;t so busy. Oh, that brings up another oft-quoted piece of advice, &#8220;Be careful what you wish for.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not enough to memorize this stuff. You have to incorporate it into your daily practice, and anyone who has lived a life of self-awareness knows this to be true.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I could fulfill this role with a really young person or someone who is not quite sure they know it all. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately (or fortunately), I&#8217;m currently so engaged in creating new work that I&#8217;m not even ready to take on the retrospective book folks have been offering me funding for. <\/p>\n<p>However, with the right student, I could  always make an exception. Yes, there is hope for the future. You just have to look really hard to find it. <\/p>\n<p>Or you could just listen to this album: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-8.19.51-AM-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-8.19.51-AM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"549\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-8.19.51-AM-1.png 550w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-8.19.51-AM-1-330x330.png 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-8.19.51-AM-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT DON&#8217;T ASSUME ANYTHING Perhaps I could be a life coach. If only I wasn&#8217;t so busy. Oh, that brings up another oft-quoted piece of advice, &#8220;Be careful what you wish for.&#8221; It&#8217;s not enough to memorize this stuff. You have to incorporate it into your daily practice, and anyone who has lived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=25001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25001"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25039,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001\/revisions\/25039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}