{"id":94,"date":"2009-02-09T23:07:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T06:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:33","slug":"means-provide-opportunity-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/opinions-on-politics-culture-society\/means-provide-opportunity-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Means Provide Opportunity, Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of requests from folks who want to &#8220;make a go of it&#8221; on their own. \u00a0And I can do that. \u00a0I do it well. \u00a0But. \u00a0Providing the means doesn&#8217;t provide the self-incentive needed to achieve the desired goals. \u00a0Providing the means\u00a0can&#8217;t provide the motivation to do the work needed to succeed. \u00a0Providing the means\u00a0only creates the tools and functions necessary to get there if someone is willing to apply themselves and do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Reality? Most people want you to do it for them while they, doing nothing, reap the benefits. \u00a0I don&#8217;t sanction that kind of attitude or that kind of behavior. \u00a0I certainly won&#8217;t enable it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of requests from folks who want to &#8220;make a go of it&#8221; on their own.&nbsp; And I can do that.&nbsp; I do it well.&nbsp; But.&nbsp; Providing the means doesn&#8217;t provide the self-incentive needed to achieve the desired goals.&nbsp; Providing the means can&#8217;t provide the motivation to do the work needed to succeed.&nbsp; Providing the means only creates the tools and functions necessary to get there if someone is willing to apply themselves and do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Reality? Most people want you to do it for them while they, doing nothing, reap the benefits.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t sanction that kind of attitude or that kind of behavior.&nbsp; I certainly won&#8217;t enable it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3826,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}