{"id":351,"date":"2010-08-12T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T13:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-08-12T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T13:49:31","slug":"yo-adrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2010\/08\/12\/yo-adrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo Adrian!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to stick to your health and fitness plan?\u00a0 Well intentioned friends and family making it hard?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>(what do you mean you don&#8217;t want a piece of cake?\u00a0 No lasagna?\u00a0 I made it just for you!\u00a0 Hey, we HAVE to celebrate tonight!\u00a0\u00a0 You can blow off the gym this one time&#8230;.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me, too.\u00a0 Heck, it was even hard for Rocky Balboa!\u00a0 But then he locked in to an AUDACIOUS goal&#8230;he didn&#8217;t want to win the fight &#8211; he wanted to be the champion!<\/p>\n<p><em>if it&#8217;s good enough for Rocky&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocky Balboa:<\/strong> Yo, don&#8217;t I got some rights?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing Commissioner:<\/strong> What rights do you think you&#8217;re referring to?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocky Balboa:<\/strong> Rights, like in that official piece of paper they wrote down the street there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing Commissioner<\/strong>: That&#8217;s the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocky Balboa:<\/strong> Yeah, yeah. Bill of Rights. Don&#8217;t it say something about going after what makes you happy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Boxing Commissioner:<\/strong> No, that&#8217;s the pursuit of happiness. But what&#8217;s your point?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Rocky Balboa:<\/strong> My point is I&#8217;m pursuing something and nobody looks too happy about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing Commissioner:<\/strong> But&#8230; we&#8217;re just looking out for your interests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocky Balboa:<\/strong> I appreciate that, but maybe you&#8217;re looking out for your interests just a little bit more. I mean you shouldn&#8217;t be asking people to come down here and pay the freight on something they paid, it still ain&#8217;t good enough, I mean you think that&#8217;s right? I mean maybe you&#8217;re doing your job but why you gotta stop me from doing mine? Cause if you&#8217;re willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who&#8217;s got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something&#8230; and you&#8217;re told no, even after you paid your dues? Who&#8217;s got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It&#8217;s your right to listen to your gut, it ain&#8217;t nobody&#8217;s right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!&#8230; You know, the older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that&#8217;s life. The only thing I&#8217;m asking you guys to leave on the table&#8230; is what&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What&#8217;s right for you?\u00a0 Say it out loud and then go do it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to stick to your health and fitness plan?\u00a0 Well intentioned friends and family making it hard?\u00a0 (what do you mean you don&#8217;t want a piece of cake?\u00a0 No lasagna?\u00a0 I made it just for you!\u00a0 Hey, we HAVE to celebrate tonight!\u00a0\u00a0 You can blow off the gym this one time&#8230;.) It&#8217;s hard for me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals-and-motivation","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-5F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}