This is what I used to think about bloggers:<\/p>\n
Self-centred in the extreme. Ego maniacs.<\/p>\n
Who thinks that she is important enough to have people read her thoughts <\/span>about everything and anything? Who cares?<\/p>\n Yesterday I went to see the film Julie and Julia<\/span> and instead of judging Amy for blogging about cooking her way through Julia Child’s book I was inspired.<\/p>\n The movie, however, was not exactly what led to this auspicious beginning.<\/p>\n At 5 o’clock this morning the cat woke me up, as he does every bloody morning, in the cruelest and most unusual way:<\/p>\n He jumps on my stomach from the window ledge above the bed. It’s not only a shock to be woken out of a deep sleep, it is painful.<\/p>\n I was mad<\/span>. Like, ready to hurt <\/span>him, mad.<\/p>\n So I began to do the thing that I do to survive and thrive in this crazy world: I pray.<\/p>\n Please help me to accept this little beast, help me to understand what it is I’m supposed to do, how can I see this in a different way, how can I love him despite the fact that he is such a pest, show me what to do, free me from my anger, guide me in this situation.<\/p>\n And the idea for a blog just swooped right in.<\/p>\n <\/span> “I could write a blog to inspire people,” I thought. Inspiring Works<\/span> is the name of my coaching business and Inspiration is Courage.<\/p>\n So here is the Inspiring Message of the Day:<\/p>\n When something happens to me that I do not like, that feels like cruel and unusual punishment, I will see it as an opportunity for growth. I will use it to change the world, be of service, help others. I will thank the person\/place\/thing that gave me the lesson, for he\/she\/it is my greatest teacher.<\/p>\n Thank you Julie and Julia. Thank you, cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is what I used to think about bloggers: Self-centred in the extreme. Ego maniacs. Who thinks that she is important enough to have people read her thoughts about everything and anything? Who cares? Yesterday I went to see the film Julie and Julia and instead of judging Amy for blogging about cooking her way…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courage","category-inspiration","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}