{"id":209724,"date":"2021-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?p=209724"},"modified":"2021-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"success-versus-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?p=209724","title":{"rendered":"Success versus Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhat does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.&nbsp; Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat will it profit a man if he gain the whole world and forfeits his life?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThen I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be grained under the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Wooden: The difference between winning and succeeding\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/john_wooden_the_difference_between_winning_and_succeeding\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Questions to ponder over this Memorial Day Weekend:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1&nbsp; What is my\/your definition of success?&nbsp;&nbsp;Note Wooden\u2019s definition of&nbsp;success\u2026 his definition of character\u2026 his three rules for his teams\u2026 his understanding&nbsp;of 3 thou shalt nots\u2026 his view of winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2&nbsp; Jesus&nbsp;approached life from a position of unconditional love demonstrated by his words and deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 What areas of my\/your life that might be improved if you and I take the time to incorporate&nbsp;Biblical and success concepts into our daily life?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 When is it ok to not do one\u2019s best?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5&nbsp; When have I won without succeeding or have succeeded without winning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 Reputation\u2026Is a perception of what you are.&nbsp; Character \u2026Is who I really am!&nbsp; Are they aligned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Is my journey better than the end?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.\u201d \u201cBut whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.&nbsp; Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":209725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-sunday-reflections","9":"with-featured-image"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/benjamin-davies-FiZTaNTj2Ak-unsplash-scaled-1-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/benjamin-davies-FiZTaNTj2Ak-unsplash-scaled-1-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Lou Haveman","author_link":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?author=5"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}