{"id":2657,"date":"2014-11-27T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2014-11-27T06:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T14:30:24","slug":"thanking-pain-and-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/thanking-pain-and-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanking Pain And Humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s Thanksgiving here in the U.S. today below is a rather odd list of things I&#8217;m thankful for.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it odd?<\/p>\n<p>Because besides the &#8220;usual suspects&#8221; I&#8217;m thankful for (God, family,\u00a0dog, business, friends, great customers, etc) there&#8217;s also another,\u00a0&#8220;secret&#8221; list of things I&#8217;m thankful for, too.<\/p>\n<p>Things that caused me pain and, yes&#8230; suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Like, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>My many (and humiliating) failures<\/strong> &#8212; without them you can never truly have any real successes, can you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Being homeless<\/strong> &#8212; as it taught me MUCHO humility, patience and, in some ways, ingenuity \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The &#8220;naysayers&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212; who have tried (and still try) to hold me back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fears<\/strong> &#8212; which have kept me alert and out of trouble<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The PILE of crushing debt I used to be in<\/strong> &#8212; I&#8217;m thankful for being able to climb out of it. 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