{"id":1097,"date":"2017-11-30T07:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeservis.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2017-11-30T07:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:06:35","slug":"serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/30\/serendipity\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Serendipity
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Sometimes the most powerful agenda is not to have an agenda. There’s even a pleasant name for it, serendipity.<\/p>\n

Precise planning, specific purpose, clarity of intention will get you far. Yet when you’re always following a strictly prescribed course, there’s something missing.<\/p>\n

Allow yourself time to be curious, to not know, to discover. Make some mistakes and false starts, secure and confident enough not to care about them.<\/p>\n

Side roads, literal ones and the figurative ones too, inject new energy and freshness into life. Turn onto one of them, then another, roll the windows down, feel life from a new perspective.<\/p>\n

It’s great to have a clear plan, yet that plan must originate somewhere. To know what you want to do, you must do what you don’t know.<\/p>\n

Now and then, venture away from the structure you’ve built into your life. Make room for some serendipity, and give your spirit a chance to be renewed through discovery and surprise.<\/p>\n

— Ralph Marston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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