{"id":730,"date":"2021-06-29T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2021-07-05T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T21:48:04","slug":"quick-list-something-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/quick-list-something-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick List &#8211; Something Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take five minutes and write down three to five times in your life when something unexpected happened that caused a change in your plans. Don&#8217;t &#8220;think&#8221; as you write the list. Just make it as quickly as you can. List everything that comes to your mind without evaluating it.<\/p>\n<p>It could be anything, large or small, that caused you to see a new path forward or influenced you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a car accident<\/li>\n<li>an unexpected job offer<\/li>\n<li>wining an prize or award<\/li>\n<li>a sudden death<\/li>\n<li>a time when you read a book or saw a movie that caught you off guard<\/li>\n<li>a friend&#8217;s reaction<\/li>\n<li>meeting a new person<\/li>\n<li>getting fired<\/li>\n<li>an old friend getting in touch after many years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pick one of these times and explain the changes in your life that resulted. Write a story about how it happened and how it influenced you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take five minutes and write down three to five times in your life when something unexpected happened that caused a change in your plans. Don&#8217;t &#8220;think&#8221; as you write the list. Just make it as quickly as you can. List everything that comes to your mind without evaluating it. It could be anything, large or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}