{"id":346,"date":"2016-05-24T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2016-05-24T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:25:15","slug":"when-you-know-whats-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"When You Know What&#8217;s Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-351 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/366016-20160524-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"366016-20160524\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/366016-20160524-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/366016-20160524.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few mornings ago I went out for my walk. \u00a0I had nearly completed 2 of my 4 laps when I heard it, then I felt it&#8230;&#8230;.thunder and rain drops. \u00a0I kept walking and pretending that the thunder was not coming my way, that it was too far in the distance, that I could keep walking and none of it would affect me. \u00a0If I ignored it, it would go away. \u00a0Well, I kept walking and the thunder got louder and the rain harder. \u00a0I finally went back to the house and conceded.<\/p>\n<p>Do you do the same thing with life? \u00a0Do you know what&#8217;s coming and choose to ignore it rather than face it? \u00a0Do you continue to do the same things over and over, knowing you shouldn&#8217;t, and expect it not to have any effect on your life?<\/p>\n<p>I see it all the time and have been guilty of it many times. \u00a0People choose to ignore red flags. \u00a0People choose to ignore the facts. \u00a0People doing exactly what they want to do thinking their choices will not impact their lives or the lives of others. \u00a0 People unwilling to face their past, their current situation or their future and unwilling to do the hard work necessary for change.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the thunder, I felt the raindrops and yet I kept thinking, it will go away. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t and it didn&#8217;t. Within minutes, the sky opened up and the thunder was right on top of us. \u00a0The storm was coming, whether I was willing to admit it or not. \u00a0What storm is coming that you are refusing to acknowledge? Take the hard steps today to do what you can, before you get really wet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A few mornings ago I went out for my walk. \u00a0I had nearly completed 2 of my 4 laps when I heard it, then I felt it&#8230;&#8230;.thunder and rain drops. \u00a0I kept walking and pretending that the thunder was not coming my way, that it was too far in the distance, that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9,1],"tags":[126,127,119,128],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-choices","category-life-coach","category-uncategorized","tag-change","tag-choices","tag-life-coach","tag-red-flags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}