{"id":7590,"date":"2021-09-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T00:45:46","slug":"until-you-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/until-you-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Until You Get It Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Until You Get It Right! 9\/04\/21\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=p8asp-10cfe8a-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plato wrote the first sentence of his famous\u00a0<em>Republic<\/em> nine different ways before he was satisfied.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cicero practiced speaking before friends every&nbsp;day&nbsp;for thirty years to perfect his elocution.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Noah Webster&nbsp;labored&nbsp;36 years writing his dictionary, crossing the Atlantic twice to gather material.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Milton rose at 4:00 am every&nbsp;day&nbsp;in order to have enough hours for his Paradise Lost.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Gibbon spent 26 years on his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bryant rewrote one of his poetic masterpieces 99 times before publication, and it became a classic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Edison performed 50,000 experiments before he succeeded in producing a storage battery. We might assume the famous inventor would have had some serious doubts along the way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But when asked if he ever became discouraged working so long without results, Edison replied,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Results? Why, I know 50,000 things that won&#8217;t work.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Consider the Postage Stamp: Its Usefulness Consists in the Ability to Stick to One Thing Until It Gets There!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wake up with determination tomorrow. Then you can go to bed with satisfaction tomorrow!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ONLY GOD CAN TURN A MESS INTO A MESSAGE, A TEST INTO A TESTIMONY, A TRIAL INTO A TRIUMPH, AND A VICTIM INTO A VICTORY!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daily we watch natural disasters happen in New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Lake Tahoe and California, Three weeks ago today a 7.2 earthquake hit Haiti. A 5.4 aftershock hit again three days ago. I\u2019m working with Food for the Poor to build a new school in the devastated area of Roseaux.\u00a0\u00a0This is a sign of hope that is so needed. Please RSVP and register today for our September 16<sup>th<\/sup> Virtual Event at 7:00 PM CST. For 15 years we have been making a real difference in Haiti. Please check this difference out on the 16<sup>th<\/sup>. Thank you for your wonderful help!!<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodforthepoor.org\/buildingdreams\">www.foodforthepoor.org\/buildingdreams<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plato wrote the first sentence of his famous\u00a0Republic nine different ways before he was satisfied.\u00a0 Cicero practiced speaking before friends every&nbsp;day&nbsp;for thirty years to perfect his elocution.&nbsp; Noah Webster&nbsp;labored&nbsp;36 years writing his dictionary, crossing the Atlantic twice to gather material.&nbsp; Milton rose at 4:00 am every&nbsp;day&nbsp;in order to have enough hours for his Paradise Lost.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb.png",291,195,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb-140x100.png",140,100,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Bulb-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Plato wrote the first sentence of his famous\u00a0Republic nine different ways before he was satisfied.\u00a0 Cicero practiced speaking before friends every&nbsp;day&nbsp;for thirty years to perfect his elocution.&nbsp; Noah Webster&nbsp;labored&nbsp;36 years writing his dictionary, crossing the Atlantic twice to gather material.&nbsp; Milton rose at 4:00 am every&nbsp;day&nbsp;in order to have enough hours for his Paradise Lost.&nbsp;&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}