{"id":39,"date":"2010-12-29T21:15:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-01-01T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T17:30:02","slug":"what-do-you-live-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/2010\/12\/what-do-you-live-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Live For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script> <fb:like href=\"http%3A%2F%2Fjoe-mangum.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fwhat-do-you-live-for%2F\" show_faces=\"false\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 15px 0px; clear:both;\"><\/fb:like><p><a href=\"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/What-do-you-live-for.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104\" title=\"What do you live for\" src=\"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/What-do-you-live-for.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/What-do-you-live-for.jpg 335w, http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/What-do-you-live-for-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a>I try to read passages of scripture every morning before I start anything whether it be from the Holy Bible or the Book of Mormon. This morning I read a verse that really jumped out at me like it never had before. In the verse, Mormon (Author and Compiler of the Book of Mormon), says that Alma (a Prophet from the Old testament Era), \u201cdied, being eighty and two years old, having lived to fulfil the commandments of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to pass over this verse positioning it simply as a \u201cmatter of fact\u201d or historic reference. However, I think it goes a little deeper than this. To me it shows that \u201cfulfilling the commandments of God\u201d was everything that Alma lived for. It\u2019s what got him up in the morning and it\u2019s what got him through the day.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what our passion is, I believe it\u2019s vital to our success and happiness in life to \u201cLIVE\u201d for something as Alma did. What is that driving force that gets you out of bed everyday? It has been said that true convictions rule the world. Someone who is driven towards an end will move further along and accomplish more good in life than someone with a \u201cpay check to pay check\u201d attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful in deciding what drives you, but make sure you have something that does. If you don\u2019t, it\u2019s never too late to find it. So tell me, what do you live for?<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/2010\/12\/what-do-you-live-for\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script> <fb:like href=\"http%3A%2F%2Fjoe-mangum.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fwhat-do-you-live-for%2F\" show_faces=\"false\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 15px 0px; clear:both;\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to read passages of scripture every morning before I start anything whether it be from the Holy Bible or the Book of Mormon. This morning I read a verse that really jumped out at me like it never &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/2010\/12\/what-do-you-live-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}