{"id":1303,"date":"2014-06-30T15:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esteelevinson.com\/site\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2014-06-30T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:11:58","slug":"holding-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.esteelevinson.com\/site\/holding-back\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8211; Bernard de Fontanelle<\/p>\n<p>What is holding you back from experiencing happiness?<\/p>\n<p>Does happiness mean feeling great all the time?<\/p>\n<p>What if you changed the movie playing in your mind?<\/p>\n<p>Even if you believe happiness is all about &#8220;rose gardens&#8221; and &#8220;little birdies&#8221; chirping, you would still be responsible for cultivating your garden of happiness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can choose to name those annoying weeds as problems.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you saw them as challenges?You can further believe that in the grand scheme of things, these challenges serve a purpose &#8211; to push you, to make you go one step further &#8211; making you go beyond, where once you may have not believed you could have gone.<\/p>\n<p>Would we become kinder and more loving to ourselves and everyone around us, if we all adopted this approach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness&#8221;. &#8211; Bernard de Fontanelle What is holding you back from experiencing happiness? 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