{"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. And yet, I&#8217;m also thankful for the experience, as it taught me more about money than any class, school or book ever could<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does it sound strange to be thankful for things that suck?<\/p>\n<p>Mayhaps it is.<\/p>\n<p>But I believe it&#8217;s when everything just kind of goes to hell in a hand basket when we find out who we REALLY are.<\/p>\n<p>When we&#8217;re actually tested.<\/p>\n<p>And when we finally GROW.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why I try to be thankful for it all.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. Why is it odd? 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. Things that caused me pain and, yes&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing","7":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}