{"id":454,"date":"2012-02-01T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2012-07-16T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:22:07","slug":"final-thoughts-on-the-flight-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/final-thoughts-on-the-flight-back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Thoughts on the Flight Back Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-455\" src=\"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FinalThoughts01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FinalThoughts01.jpg 900w, https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FinalThoughts01-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI\u2019m writing this from 40,000 feet above the earth, just barely grazing over a floor of clouds, and I\u2019m feeling good. I didn\u2019t really know what to expect from spending what little amount of money I had left in my savings on a crazy 10-day photography road trip through the Coffee Region of Colombia with three perfect strangers, and I can\u2019t really explain what I got from the last 10 days, but I do feel completely inspired and passionate about getting home and making things happen.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a really good article in the on-board \u2018Spirit\u2019 magazine about a 20-year old guy named Rob Summers who was well on his way to achieving his lifelong goal of becoming a major-league pitcher when he became paralyzed from the elbows down from a hit-and-run car incident. I won\u2019t go into much more detail about the story (other then with a buttload of determination and perseverance he is now standing and walking on his own), but if you\u2019re interested I suggest you hop on the next Southwest Airlines flight and pick up a copy for yourself because I&#8217;m pretty sure they change these things out every month (also be sure to check the back for those nifty Money Origami Instructions).<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, the article talks a lot about tuning in to your passions and inspirations, setting goals each day based on those feelings, and allowing yourself to add, remove, modify, or change importance of those goals from day to day. That&#8217;s exactly what I plan on doing. I&#8217;m tired of waiting for things to happen to me. If there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve learned from this trip, it&#8217;s that you have to put yourself out there, work hard, and keep on doing what you&#8217;re really passionate about. That&#8217;s when everything starts falling into place.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is for this blog to portray that.<\/p>\n<p>-Rob Rice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I\u2019m writing this from 40,000 feet above the earth, just barely grazing over a floor of clouds, and I\u2019m feeling good. I didn\u2019t really know what to expect from spending what little amount of money I had left in my savings on a crazy 10-day photography road trip through the Coffee Region of Colombia&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamrobrice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}