{"id":3265,"date":"2014-02-24T08:09:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2014-02-26T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T20:58:05","slug":"i-believe-its-time-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/i-believe-its-time-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"I Believe it&#8217;s Time to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think back through the past few years and all I\u2019ve done without really ever having a \u201creal\u201d job, I think it\u2019s pretty remarkable (though, I may be biased!)<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s campaign by Bloggin\u2019 Mamas to raise\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/23\/50kin1day\/\">#50kIn1Day<\/a>\u00a0really showed me something about myself that I hadn\u2019t really noticed or acknowledged before:\u00a0 when something is important to me, I go for it, wholeheartedly!\u00a0 I\u2019m loyal up the wazoo.\u00a0 If I believe in you, I will go all out for you.\u00a0 If you\u2019ll take my help, I\u2019m more than happy to give it.\u00a0 When no one else will step up, I feel the need to do more than my part for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>But it goes the other way, too.\u00a0 If I\u2019m not feeling valued for all I give, I get disheartened, disenchanted and that is when I give up.\u00a0 Because everything one does in life results in sacrificing somewhere else, I have to feel that my time, energy and efforts are appreciated or I won\u2019t stick with it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that I\u2019m a quitter, it\u2019s that I\u2019m not a waster.\u00a0 Just like I hate to waste food, plastic, gas, money; I hate to waste my efforts.\u00a0 If I\u2019m not going to be appreciated then I will spend my energy somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve made the decision that I want to spend my excess time and energy on Beyond Mommying, I want to grow, reach more people and I want to help other mommies and companies with great products and ideas reach more people!<\/p>\n<p>While I can almost always find something nice to say, I\u2019ve never been good at sharing false opinions so if you have a product or service you\u2019d like an honest opinion and review on, Beyond Mommying is the place to get it!\u00a0 Check out my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/get-in-touch\/media-kit\/\">Media Kit<\/a>\u00a0and contact me at <a href=\"mailto:beyondmommying@gmail.com\">beyondmommying@gmail.com<\/a> to see how Beyond Mommying can help you reach your potential as I try to reach mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think back through the past few years and all I\u2019ve done without really ever having a \u201creal\u201d job, I think it\u2019s pretty remarkable (though, I may be biased!) Yesterday\u2019s campaign by Bloggin\u2019 Mamas to raise\u00a0#50kIn1Day\u00a0really showed me something about myself that I hadn\u2019t really noticed or acknowledged before:\u00a0 when something is important to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[57,61,58,62,59],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mommy-time","tag-blogging","tag-loyalty","tag-mom-blogger","tag-persistence","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}