{"id":4324,"date":"2026-08-26T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:37:03","slug":"great-things-take-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/great-things-take-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Things Take Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4324\" class=\"elementor elementor-4324\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41d3199 e-con e-atomic-element e-flexbox-base e-default-div e-d8cd844 \" data-id=\"41d3199\" data-element_type=\"e-flexbox\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-interaction-id=\"41d3199\">\n    \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83204a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"83204a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/great-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-4325\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ddc536 e-con e-atomic-element e-flexbox-base e-default-div e-4ddc536-793b1e1 \" data-id=\"4ddc536\" data-element_type=\"e-flexbox\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-interaction-id=\"4ddc536\">\n    \t\t\t<h2 data-interaction-id=\"46a7f46\" class=\"e-46a7f46-d2e8f34 e-heading-base e-default-h2\">Great Things Take Time<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-413740d e-con e-atomic-element e-flexbox-base e-default-div e-413740d-8f127bd \" data-id=\"413740d\" data-element_type=\"e-flexbox\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-interaction-id=\"413740d\">\n    \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9da7bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e9da7bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Every good thing or worthwhile endeavour won\u2019t be easily and quickly achieved. Time and sometimes a lot of time is required.<\/p><p>During the process, we begin to notice various obstacles stopping us from achieving the goal.<\/p><p>Some will immediately give up and find something else to do.<\/p><p>Some will undertake personal development to acquire or perfect the required skills to surmount the obstacles.<\/p><p>However, when we just think all is set, it comes unglued! What again?<\/p><p>Obstacles are most often clothed as insurmountable problems. In reality, they are opportunities in disguise. Ryan Holiday in his book &#8220;The Obstacle Is The Way&#8221; puts it very explicitly :<br \/>&#8220;Obstacles are an opportunity to express\/practice virtue, patience,<br \/>courage, humility, resourcefulness, reason, justice and creativity &#8220;.<\/p><p>It takes persistence, perseverance and patience to keep going on without giving up!<\/p><p>Borrow a leaf from the Marines : Adjust, Improvise, and Overcome.<\/p><p>Are you ready to keep going?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every good thing or worthwhile endeavour won\u2019t be easily and quickly achieved. Time and sometimes a lot of time is required.<br \/>\nDuring the process, we begin to notice various obstacles stopping us from achieving the goal.<br \/>\nSome will immediately give up and find something else to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevealabi.com\/interactive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}