{"id":1811,"date":"2017-11-17T07:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T07:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2017-11-17T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T07:34:54","slug":"success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ve been giving thought to success the last few days or so. My business is doing really well and I\u2019m pushing things along and it\u2019s made me wonder a few things. \u00a0What is success? How does someone define success? Does everyone want to be successful?\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What is successful to one is just routine for another isn\u2019t it? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For some getting up, getting dressed and just having an ok day is a success. For others success might be setting up a multi-million pound business and they still don\u2019t think they\u2019re being successful. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think that im successful now I\u2019m getting on with things again and staying level. \u00a0Keeping work very manageable, although I\u2019m doing 10+ hour days and Saturdays, is really good too. I\u2019m loving work again. I\u2019m loving challenging myself again. It\u2019s still in the back of my mind not to let it tip or slip into something more but my drive is very focused and has been for a few months. \u00a0The focus is helping so much as it\u2019s a good focus and not a a bad obsession. I\u2019ve realised obsessions CAN be good if they\u2019re the right kind and healthy. I know that sounds like a contradiction too. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So am I successful in my own mind? I think I am getting there. Maybe it\u2019s a hindsight thing. Maybe when one looks back at tough times and realises they got through them they know they\u2019ve been successful. I guess it\u2019s about keeping going through the tough times.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been giving thought to success the last few days or so. My business is doing really well and I\u2019m pushing things along and it\u2019s made me wonder a few things. \u00a0What is success? How does someone define success? Does everyone want to be successful?\u00a0What is successful to one is just routine for another isn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1811\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Success<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}