{"id":7896,"date":"2014-10-08T13:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T17:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2014-10-09T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:53:14","slug":"defines-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2014\/10\/08\/defines-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Defines My Needs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/InnerDirective.png\" alt=\"InnerDirective\" width=\"640\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/InnerDirective.png 640w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/InnerDirective-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I make a difference by being what I am. I add value to my world by being the light I am, and by holding onto this light no matter what externally arrives to me.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, I need to protect myself from the overwhelm of the external world. I need to protect who I truly am. I can not lose myself; and it&#8217;s important I acknowledge the force by which others may seem to want me to. I need ways to deal with the tension between taking care of my inner business and taking care of external affairs.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, it could be hard to know what was right \u2014 the authority figure who wanted me to change, or the inner guru who knew I was as I needed to be. It was hard to know what defined my needs. Now as I grow, I am learning to better understand the contrast between my truth and the manufactured needs that keep me from it.<\/p>\n<p>My truth is in my inner directive. My wisdom lies in staying connected to myself while pushing into the world. In holding my sense of self I have what I need to sense my way forward with confidence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make a difference by being what I am. I add value to my world by being the light I am, and by holding onto this light no matter what externally arrives to me. To do this, I need to protect myself from the overwhelm of the external world. I need to protect who I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[392,390,135,91,391,393],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-holding","tag-inner-directive","tag-integrity","tag-needs","tag-protection","tag-tension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}