{"id":31765,"date":"2020-04-27T01:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31765"},"modified":"2020-04-27T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T06:32:25","slug":"audio-now-is-a-time-to-take-risk-not-the-time-to-be-stopped-by-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31765","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Now is a time to take risk, not the time to be stopped by fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rocket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31769\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rocket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rocket.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rocket-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of lives are suddenly on hold lately. The crisis brought on by the new coronavirus has left many people jobless. It\u2019s destroying companies \u2014 both large and small \u2014 and it\u2019s forcing some of us to change plans that we had been ready to execute this year.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t realize how much this had affected me mentally until I put some things together Friday afternoon. Then I spent the weekend thinking about where I stood \u2014 and what I can do. I don\u2019t have a new plan yet, but I discovered that the most important decision I could make was to take control back instead of waiting to see what others do to solve this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The audio embedded below is about eight and a half minutes long.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Click or tap the \u201cplay\u201d button to listen.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-31765-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taking-control-back.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taking-control-back.m4a\">https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taking-control-back.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of lives are suddenly on hold lately. The crisis brought on by the new coronavirus has left many people jobless. It\u2019s destroying companies \u2014 both large and small \u2014 and it\u2019s forcing some of us to change plans that we had been ready to execute this year. I didn\u2019t realize how much this had <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31765\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8gl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31765"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31773,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765\/revisions\/31773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}