{"id":1264,"date":"2012-04-25T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2014-06-16T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T14:09:04","slug":"circle-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Circle of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Circle_of_Life.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2083\" alt=\"Circle_of_Life\" src=\"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Circle_of_Life.png\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Circle_of_Life.png 230w, https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Circle_of_Life-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve all heard it; Elton John and Tim Rice even made <a title=\"The Circle of Life\" href=\"www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc\" target=\"_blank\">a song<\/a> out of it for Disney\u2019s \u201c<a title=\"Lion King\" href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/lionking\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lion King<\/a>.\u201d What\u00a0is it? Is it different for everyone? Does it mean that life comes full circle, or that what comes around, goes\u00a0around?<\/p>\n<p>Rarely, if ever, does life work out exactly as planned. As a matter of fact, one of the few things you can\u00a0set your watch to is the ever-changing circumstances of life. We joke here in Maryland that if you don&#8217;t\u00a0like the weather, stick around \u2013 it will change! Change is inevitable. We change jobs \u2013 seven times in\u00a0a lifetime for the average person \u2013 we change spouses, cars, schools, houses, looks, weight, ideas,\u00a0and values. I could go on, but you see what I\u2019m saying. When such a change comes along, how do you\u00a0process it? When life throws you a curveball, can you shift, pivot, and knock it out of the park? I love\u00a0sports metaphors \u2013 they&#8217;re so great!<\/p>\n<p>How will you, how do you, how will others handle the changes in your life? They will happen, for some\u00a0way more than others. In the last two years, life as I always knew it has changed forever \u2013 one of\u00a0my businesses, my marriage, the death of my brother, my home, my car, my children, my career, my\u00a0ambition, my purpose \u2013 they all changed! Just like that, changed forever. While change is never easy,\u00a0it need not be bad, immobilizing or complicated; one just needs to go deeper to understand the process,\u00a0flow and direction of the change.<\/p>\n<p>There is meaning and purpose behind everything that happens to us. Seek it out, embrace it, incorporate\u00a0and celebrate it. Surround yourself with others who will do the same, and let go of the ones who can\u2019t,\u00a0or simply won\u2019t accept the new direction, the new paradigm, the new geometrical figure the world has\u00a0created for you. Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cthe only way out is through\u201d \u2013 not around, under or over, but\u00a0through. Sometimes the Circle of Life is a square!<\/p>\n<p>Bob Paff<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"About Bob Paff\" href=\"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/about-bob-paff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get Empowered and informed with Bob&#8217;s Motivations, Inspirations, Advice and Updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We joke here in Maryland that if you don&#8217;t like the weather, stick around \u2013 it will change! Change is inevitable. We change jobs \u2013 seven times in a lifetime for the average person \u2013 we change spouses, cars, schools, houses, looks, weight, ideas, and values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-bobs-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}