{"id":983,"date":"2013-05-08T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2015-07-25T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T14:43:11","slug":"change-starts-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/change-starts-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Starts Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_984\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-984\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-984\" alt=\"What change do you want to see in the world?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/What-change-do-you-want-to-see-in-the-world.jpg?resize=300%2C295\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Dreamfish.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can only control yourself. \u00a0No matter how much you want to change other people you have no control over them &#8211; you are not their keeper. \u00a0But if you really want to change the world look within yourself. \u00a0I can&#8217;t say it any better than this:<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser I discovered the world would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country. But it too seemed immovable. As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me. But alas they would have none of it. And now as I realize as I lie on my deathbed, if I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement I would have been able to better my country and who knows, I might have even changed the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That inscription is on a tomb dated 1100 A.D. in Westminster Abbey. \u00a0I think the person who created it sums it up perfectly.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can only control yourself. \u00a0No matter how much you want to change other people you have no control over them &#8211; you are not their keeper. \u00a0But if you really want to change the world look within yourself. \u00a0I can&#8217;t say it any better than this: \u201cWhen I was young and free and my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[99,101,103,344,650],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-coaching","category-motivational","tag-change","tag-change-starts-within","tag-change-yourself","tag-look-inside","tag-world","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/What-change-do-you-want-to-see-in-the-world.jpg?fit=800%2C788&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qxKv-fR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80147,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/80147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}