{"id":36839,"date":"2023-01-10T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/?p=36839"},"modified":"2023-01-10T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:04:02","slug":"passing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/passing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January 10, 2008 I stood in a delivery room at 5am after my rockstar wife was pushing for two hours, holding our firstborn. I was overwhelmed on many levels: we created a new human being, we would be a part of shaping this young man’s life…I had no idea what I was doing or how I would be part of shaping someone’s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifteen years later and I get the opportunity to continue to share a birthday with what is becoming a young man. I get the opportunity to reflect on what level and to what affect I have been part of his shaping process. But the bigger question I ask myself is what kind of a person am I? How do I live that will, in turn (and in part only), impact how he lives merely by him watching me? What behaviors, attitudes, beliefs am I passing down simply by living my own life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have kids you know they watch you (think of that time your child does something and you say, “Whoa….that is totally me” – for better or worse). Sure we screw it up but we also can do it very well. There is a lot in life that we can’t control. But we can control what we prioritize – and our kids, partner, parents – can eavesdrop on that by watching us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are you prioritizing in your life? Do you keep saying: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“I should lose weight.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“I should eat better.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“I should exercise.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“I should…..”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all get the chance not to should all over the place but to actually do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And people in our lives are watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 10, 2008 I stood in a delivery room at 5am after my rockstar wife was pushing for two hours, holding our firstborn. I was overwhelmed on many levels: we created a new human being, we would be a part of shaping this young man’s life…I had no idea what I was doing or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Brady-Marc-Boat.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36843,"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839\/revisions\/36843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossfitneverdoubt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}