{"id":263,"date":"2018-01-30T14:58:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=263"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:44:11","slug":"80-20-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/30\/80-20-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"80\/20 Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>&#8220;Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.&#8221;\u00a0 Colossians 4:6<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI teach tennis.\u00a0 I started three years ago, I&#8217;m beginning my fourth year of teaching this year.\u00a0 Tennis is a great way to learn life lessons.\u00a0 You call your own lines, it shows your level of honesty.\u00a0 It requires patience, endurance, perseverance.\u00a0 It teaches you how to win and how to lose.\u00a0 Those are just a few.\u00a0 There is one thing teaching tennis has taught me that has revolutionized my life.<br \/>\nDid you know, 80% of what you say to children they remember?\u00a0 However, you only remember 20% of what you say to children.\u00a0 That&#8217;s intimidating!\u00a0 I can&#8217;t even remember what I had for lunch yesterday, much less every word that has come out of my mouth.<br \/>\nI have found, the older I get, the less I remember.\u00a0 I have found there is only one solution to this statistic.\u00a0 Make sure everything you say is uplifting and encouraging.\u00a0 Then you don&#8217;t have to worry about remembering what you say.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t say I am perfect at this.\u00a0 I can say, every time I look at the sweet face of a child I remember that rule.\u00a0 It holds me to a level of accountability that I appreciate.<br \/>\nOne of my good friends gave me this piece of advice when I started coaching.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t care about how much you know until they know how much you care.\u00a0 There is no better way to show them how much you care than with the words that\u00a0 you use.<br \/>\nLord, help me be uplifting and encouraging in all I say.\u00a0 Forgive me the times I fail.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.&#8221;\u00a0 Colossians 4:6 I teach tennis.\u00a0 I started three years ago, I&#8217;m beginning my fourth year of teaching this year.\u00a0 Tennis is a great way to learn life lessons.\u00a0 You call your own lines, it shows&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/30\/80-20-rule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">80\/20 Rule<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}