{"id":2802,"date":"2016-03-29T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:16:10","slug":"motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2016\/03\/motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In business and personal life each person uses some form of motivation to pursue their goals. Last week I had one of those moments and it ties back to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2016\/03\/a-failed-job-interview\/\">Failed Job Interview<\/a> post. I live and work to provide for my wife and kids.<\/p>\n<p>It was a typical morning with Face getting up shortly after me. We made breakfast and as each of the other boys got up, I helped them get things in order for school and feed. I finished my own preparations and kissed my wife good bye.<\/p>\n<p>I got my sunglasses, keys, and started to open the front door. Face came running and yelling, &#8220;Daddy don&#8217;t go! Don&#8217;t go!&#8221; &#8220;Daddy don&#8217;t go! Don&#8217;t go!&#8221; He started crying and gave me a big hug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please stay home and play with me?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, my boy, I wish I could, I have to go to work so that we can have food and clothes, and so that we have a place to live.&#8221; &#8220;Face, I want you to know that I am working on my own business so that I can stay home with you and we can do fun things together.&#8221; I will admit that this has happened more than once and this last time it almost brought me to tears. I drove to work thinking about what I am doing and WHY I am building my own business.<\/p>\n<p>I love my family &#8230; my wife and boys, her parents and siblings and my own. I have long dreamed of working for myself and building a business that provides the freedom and income to change our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you go to work? What&#8217;s your motivation?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In business and personal life each person uses some form of motivation to pursue their goals. Last week I had one of those moments and it ties back to my Failed Job Interview post. I live and work to provide for my wife and kids. It was a typical morning with Face getting up shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31],"tags":[531,33,84,107,54,150,108,63,680,847,536,722],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-personal-story","tag-boys","tag-change","tag-determination","tag-dream","tag-family","tag-freedom","tag-goal","tag-life","tag-love","tag-motivation","tag-wife","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}