{"id":1432,"date":"2010-02-09T07:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2010-02-09T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:51:35","slug":"a-life-of-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2010\/02\/a-life-of-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life of Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an <a title=\"After 100 Years, Are The Boy Scouts Still Relevant?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/02\/boy-scouts-at-100-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in Wired this morning about the Boy Scouts of America.\u00a0 First, it made me reminisce about my own personal scouting experiences, but then I started to reflect that one of the biggest things I got from scouting was the importance of living a principled centered life.\u00a0 No, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I was never the best behaved child in my family &#8230; I made mistakes and wandered from the path my parents had outlined for me.<\/p>\n<p>What happened later in life is that I saw my mistakes and started to correct for them.\u00a0 This led me back to the Scout Law [A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,  cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent] and living to bring those principles into my life and making myself a better person.\u00a0\u00a0 I learned next about &#8216;Beginning with the End in Mind&#8217; from Dr. Stephen Covey; and I learned, through time, that Christ and HIS teachings focused on a principle centered life.\u00a0 It really made me think and expand my thinking about how I lived and what I wanted in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about the people that I respected the most and those that I looked up to.\u00a0 I thought about my own life and realized that Thomas Jefferson was right, &#8220;In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The best life is one that is built upon a framework of principles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article in Wired this morning about the Boy Scouts of America.\u00a0 First, it made me reminisce about my own personal scouting experiences, but then I started to reflect that one of the biggest things I got from scouting was the importance of living a principled centered life.\u00a0 No, don&#8217;t get me wrong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,586,73],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-life","tag-principles","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}