{"id":2945,"date":"2014-05-04T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2014-09-09T08:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T08:04:41","slug":"what-you-can-learn-from-an-acorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/archives\/what-you-can-learn-from-an-acorn","title":{"rendered":"What You Can Learn From An Acorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2946\" alt=\"Opportunities are everywhere if you'll just take the time to see them.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/acorns-of-opportunity.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" \/>Today I went for a walk (it&#8217;s a beautiful blue-sky day), and I saw on the ground lots of acorns. As I looked at them, I remembered pieces of a quote but not all of it&#8230;something about &#8220;how many trees in an acorn&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it might be nice to have an acorn on my desk as a reminder.<\/p>\n<p>I looked for one with the little cap on it, thinking it had more of the &#8220;look&#8221; of an acorn. I couldn&#8217;t see one.<\/p>\n<p>I was just getting ready to have a negative thought about not being able to find one when the breeze picked up just enough to rustle the trees&#8230;and a fully capped acorn landed at my feet!<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t believe it. I knew it was a reminder to just *ask* for what you want.<\/p>\n<p>As I picked up that acorn, it occurred to me that &#8220;asking&#8221; is really all it takes. I looked around at all the acorns on the ground and decided to pick up more to put in a jar on my desk. As I picked them up, I realized the acorns were just like opportunities: they are everywhere if you look for them.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up large ones, small ones, I even found a few more with the caps on. I got so many that I was in danger of dropping some that I had already carefully selected.<\/p>\n<p>And then I realized, that was a lesson, too.<\/p>\n<p>Nurture the opportunities that you have. Because there are so many opportunities of all shapes and sizes, you must select the right ones for your purpose\/passion and then work carefully with those. Know when you have enough to handle and don&#8217;t keep grabbing all that you see just because it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>So, today&#8217;s walk yielded a few nice &#8220;lessons&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask for what you want.<\/li>\n<li>Have gratitude when you get it &#8211; appreciate.<\/li>\n<li>Opportunities are everywhere, you just have to be open to seeing them.<\/li>\n<li>You can take advantage of more than one opportunity at a time.<\/li>\n<li>Once you select your opportunities, go for it! Nurture them to grow them.<\/li>\n<li>Realize that it&#8217;s more important to make the most of the opportunity that you have than to keep going after everything that shows up on your radar screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It all starts with <strong>Asking<\/strong>&#8230;<em>and that&#8217;s something you can do right now!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, just when it seems that what you want can&#8217;t be found, you realize it was there all along.  You just have to ask&#8230;then be open to seeing it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/archives\/what-you-can-learn-from-an-acorn\/\">Life lessons are all around you&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}