{"id":2910,"date":"2016-06-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2016-06-17T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T18:20:38","slug":"my-greatest-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2016\/06\/my-greatest-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"My Greatest Fear &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2292-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2292\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2292-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2292-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2292-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2292.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8230; is failure. Whatever task I put my mind to, I have always been able to achieve. It might take time to figure out how to get to that goal or accomplish the task I have set for myself. I attribute this to my parents and the way I was raised. I was taught to never give up and keep my focus on the future to be created.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my life experiences have helped frame this for me.<\/p>\n<p>The first was in the winter of 1988 when I had a paper route. Back then, there was a small community newspaper that serviced the communities around Ft. Meade, MD. A friend was a paperboy and recommended me to the company to cover another neighborhood. This was a great idea since I eagerly looked for any type of work. I took the job with my parents approval and started delivering papers; we also worked 2 or 3 nights a week to get new subscriptions. I thought it was great, because we made a commission and a prize for the new subscriptions. I made it a goal for myself to become the top seller for new subscriptions, it didn&#8217;t take long and by the end of 2 months of work I had earned a commission of 400$! For a 13 year old this was awesome!<\/p>\n<p>The second was in 11th grade, when my history class took a 3 day study on propaganda used by Germany in WWII. This caused me to be 3 days late on my term paper. I misunderstood the teacher and thought that I would always have 3 extra days to work on my assignment. Well, I found out after the second due date that I was wrong. I ended up with a cumulative C. I had held the highest A for the first 2 quarters. Another student laughed at me and told me that I would not be able to bring my grade up by the end of the year. I looked right at him and said I will have an A for this class by the end of the year. Oh, I worked for it extra credit and everything else to make sure that I got everything I could. By the end of that school year, I had the 3rd highest A. I was proud of my accomplishment and to prideful to be gracious, and I rubbed it in the other student&#8217;s face. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t get smart enough to ask forgiveness before it was to late.<\/p>\n<p>These experiences helped to shape my sense and ability of accomplishment. I look back on these to events to give myself encouragement and to give me the strength to stick to my goals and see that I achieve them!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is failure. Whatever task I put my mind to, I have always been able to achieve. It might take time to figure out how to get to that goal or accomplish the task I have set for myself. I attribute this to my parents and the way I was raised. I was taught to [&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":[106,779,154,65,455,48,825,108,124,137,125,722],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-personal-story","tag-achieve","tag-community","tag-courage","tag-encouragement","tag-events","tag-experience","tag-failure","tag-goal","tag-mind","tag-service","tag-thought","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","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=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}