{"id":475,"date":"2009-01-20T21:25:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T05:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2009-01-21T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T22:36:34","slug":"obama-shows-us-what-taking-risks-is-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/inspiration\/obama-shows-us-what-taking-risks-is-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Shows Us What Taking Risks is About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was\u00c2\u00a0completely\u00c2\u00a0moved by President Obama&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0Inauguration. I sincerely hope the reader of this post saw the speech; but if they didn&#8217;t- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/01\/20\/obama.politics\/#cnnSTCVideo\" target=\"_blank\">watch it here on CNN<\/a>. Of the many areas\u00c2\u00a0that were touched on by President Obama, one stayed has stayed in my thoughts\u00c2\u00a0consistently- taking risks. Here is a quote from his speech:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things \u00e2\u20ac\u201d some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This struck a huge cord with me.\u00c2\u00a0I have relatives that left their families in Europe, in search of a better life in America. I have relatives that fought and died in World War II. I have relatives that marched alongside African-Americans for civil rights in the 60&#8217;s. I have relatives that were imprisoned for their philosophies. They all go off their asses to make a change in their lives, not knowing the outcome. They stayed true to their\u00c2\u00a0heart, right or wrong. I look at all they tried to accomplish in their life, and am greatly humbled and thankful.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw President Obama step out of his car during the Presidential Parade today, I was humbled once more. This was a huge risk, considering America&#8217;s history of\u00c2\u00a0assassinating\u00c2\u00a0great leaders. It is one thing to stand up and make an amazing speech about taking chances; but it is another thing to show it.<br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=dom&amp;vid=\/video\/politics\/2009\/01\/20\/vo.obama.inauguration.parade.cnn\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>Embedded video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\">CNN Video<\/a><\/noscript><br \/>\nI\u00c2\u00a0spent\u00c2\u00a0years taking risks in my career, but not in my life. I had one of those moments a few years ago when my whole life flashed before me- and I ran away from everyone. I realized I hadn&#8217;t done anything that amounted to anything in my life; and I had wasted a portion of that on false hopes and false people.<\/p>\n<p>Every day since then has been a day of discovery and choices. I make decisions quickly, and act on them right away. I came to the hard realization that life is way too short, and I didn&#8217;t want to waste another minute not being true to my heart. If my heart isn&#8217;t in something now, I just walk away.<\/p>\n<p>To take a risk in your life, you heart has to be in it. I saw real heart today by President Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was\u00c2\u00a0completely\u00c2\u00a0moved by President Obama&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0Inauguration. I sincerely hope the reader of this post saw the speech; but if they didn&#8217;t- watch it here on CNN. Of the many areas\u00c2\u00a0that were touched on by President Obama, one stayed has stayed in my thoughts\u00c2\u00a0consistently- taking risks. Here is a quote from his speech: In reaffirming the greatness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,45],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-cnn","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}