{"id":6538,"date":"2010-07-30T23:29:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T06:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2010-07-31T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:47:13","slug":"transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ex-hippie indigenous studies teacher I had in my first term of college gave me the single best advice I’ve ever heard:<\/p>\n

“Don’t worry about what you should do,” he told me as I fretted over what I was going to do<\/em> with my life, “work hard at what you like and doors will open for you.”<\/p>\n

At the time, it was what I needed to hear to calm me down and focus on just getting through<\/em> college.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I look back at that advice as a reminder to be open and flexible.\u00c2\u00a0 Life isn’t about getting to an end point.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s about the process.\u00c2\u00a0 So I’ve put faith in the process — of doing what feels right.\u00c2\u00a0 It has meant taking risks, walking away from sure-things\u00c2\u00a0 in favor of the unknown, and sometimes just doing whatever it is that makes the least amount of sense.
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\nEight days ago, I was finishing teaching class when an opportunity fell from the sky and landed smack-dab on my head.<\/p>\n

Even if I had been paying attention, I don’t think I would have seen it coming.\u00c2\u00a0 It means a lot of changes (and short-term, a lot more to balance) but opens up seemingly endless possibilities for incredible projects and work opportunities.\u00c2\u00a0 The door was open.\u00c2\u00a0 There was no way to say no.
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The ex-hippie indigenous studies teacher I had in my first term of college gave me the single best advice I’ve ever heard: “Don’t worry about what you should do,” he told me as I fretted over what I was going to do with my life, “work hard at what you like and doors will open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}