{"id":123,"date":"2011-05-22T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T19:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-05-22T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T19:52:19","slug":"desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at church we had a discussion about Dallin H. Oaks&#8217; talk from last General Conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/lds.org\/general-conference\/2011\/04\/desire?lang=eng\"><em>Desire<\/em><\/a>. What drives our actions?<\/p>\n<p>He says &#8220;Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. The desires we act on determine our changing, our achieving, and our becoming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it looks a little something like this:<\/p>\n<p>Desires -&gt; Priorities -&gt; Choices -&gt; Actions<\/p>\n<p>Is there a disconnect in our supposed desires (our goals) and the things we actually end up doing? If so, it&#8217;s time to fix that disconnect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at church we had a discussion about Dallin H. Oaks&#8217; talk from last General Conference, Desire. What drives our actions? He says &#8220;Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. The desires we act on determine our changing, our achieving, and our becoming.&#8221; So it looks a little something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","category-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}