{"id":1448,"date":"2016-07-11T19:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getswitchedonblog.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T12:47:58","slug":"how-to-make-summer-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/11\/how-to-make-summer-count\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make this Summer Count!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.232.143.211\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hello-summer-with-watermelon-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1449 size-medium\" title=\"Hello summer,watercolor lettering with watermelon\" src=\"http:\/\/3.232.143.211\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hello-summer-with-watermelon-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hello summer,watercolor lettering with watermelon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have seen me speak at an event, &nbsp;you may remember I asked you to close your eyes and imagine you are 80 years old. This 80 year old you knows ALL about you. I then asked what advice that 80 year old <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>YOU<\/strong><\/span> would give <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>YOU<\/strong><\/span> today?<\/p>\n<p>What would you tell you? It can be life changing!<br \/>\nAbout 17 years ago know after an event in Jackson, MS I asked the audience that question. A girl named Georgia Ann approached me and said her grandmother had given her some advice. I asked what did she say? She told Georgia Ann, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cChild remember you might only get 80 Summers. Make them count!\u201d<!--more--><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHopefully you will live to experience at least 80 summers. Personally I am going for 100! How old are you now? I am 55. Using 80 as the number of summers that leaves me just 25 more to experience. Yikes. It is so easy to keep busy and not plan some special activities. How can you make this summer count?<\/p>\n<p>It can be<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> simple activities<\/strong><\/span> like floating a river, having a picnic, taking a hike, going to a play or concert, borrow or rent a boat for the day on a local lake, visiting a state park for a quick camping adventure. The possibilities are endless.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How old are you? How may do you have left? <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWe are well into this summer and for many of us our kids return to school in only a month. It is flying by.<br \/>\nWhat memories will you have from this summer? What adventures and experiences are still ahead <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>THIS<\/strong><\/span> summer.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Make this summer count!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully you will live to experience at least 80 summers. Personally I am going for 100! How old are you now? I am 55. Using 80 as the number of summers that leaves me just 25 more to experience. Yikes. It is so easy to keep busy and not plan some special activities. It can be simple activities like floating a river, having a picnic, taking a hike, going to a play or concert, borrow or rent a boat for the day on a local lake, visiting a state park for a quick camping adventure. The possibilities are endless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}