{"id":2571,"date":"2012-11-23T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2012-11-23T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:23:38","slug":"its-not-getting-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not getting what you want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cMy greatest skill in life has been to want but little.\u201d&#8211;Thoreau<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not getting what you want, it&#8217;s wanting what you&#8217;ve got.&#8221;-Cheryl Crow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Like most everyone else, I love the holiday season. A while ago, though, it became less about receiving (at this point in my life, if I need something, I&#8217;ll just go buy it&#8211;I don&#8217;t have the self-discipline to wait for a holiday) and much more about giving. But it&#8217;s just not giving anything&#8211;it is giving with purpose and meaning. I believe a lot of thought should go into a gift and it&#8217;s just not my <a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/decisions-decisions-decisions\/\">indecisiveness<\/a>, it is considering the person that I am buying for, what they might like, what they could use, and then matching that with a gift as best as I can. Believe me, this makes buying the gift and watching the person open it and use it all the more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It&#8217;s also a good way to avoid this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7PQT-T75WwE]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I hope that we all have received gifts from others that have put a lot of thought into it. I&#8217;ve long believed that a gift from the heart is greater than a gift from the wallet. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that gifts from the heart are cheap or inexpensive. It just means that when we give in this way, we give a little part of ourselves to the other person, and that is one of the greatest gifts we can give.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2580\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gifts-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2580\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2580\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gifts-4-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gifts-4-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gifts-4-1024x750.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/422319\">sh0dan<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy greatest skill in life has been to want but little.\u201d&#8211;Thoreau &#8220;It&#8217;s not getting what you want, it&#8217;s wanting what you&#8217;ve got.&#8221;-Cheryl Crow Like most everyone else, I love the holiday season. A while ago, though, it became less about receiving (at this point in my life, if I need something, I&#8217;ll just go buy it&#8211;I don&#8217;t have the self-discipline<a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=2571\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,62,41,114],"tags":[52,29,101,48,39,68],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-human-2","category-mindfulness-2","category-personal","tag-human","tag-journey","tag-life","tag-relationship","tag-sharing","tag-vulnerability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gifts-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}