{"id":971,"date":"2020-09-10T19:10:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2020-09-10T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:20:16","slug":"the-doughnut-or-the-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/the-doughnut-or-the-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doughnut or the Hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As you ramble through life, brother<\/em>
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Whatever your goal<\/em><\/div>\n
Keep your eye upon the doughnut<\/em>
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And not upon the hole.<\/em><\/div>\n

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I ran across this saying on a poster in the rest-room of a bakery some years back.  When I Googled it to find the author, I discovered that the quote was registered as a trademark by the now defunct Mayflower coffee and doughnut shops and reportedly appeared on every box of doughnuts they sold.<\/p>\n

I consider myself an optimist, but yet\u2026 how many times do I have my eye on the \u201chole\u201d rather than on the deliciousness of the doughnut?<\/p>\n

How many times do I focus on the lack of something I want or some quality I think I should have, rather than focusing on the abundance in front of me, and the gifts I do have?  How many times am I looking at the problem instead of looking at God?<\/p>\n

It reminds me of a quote attributed to Julian of Norwich (c.1342-1416):<\/p>\n

 I look at you, I look at God, I keep looking at God.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wise advice, indeed.<\/p>\n

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As you ramble through life, brother Whatever your goal Keep your eye upon the doughnut And not upon the hole. I ran across this saying on a poster in the rest-room of a bakery some years back.  When I Googled it to find the author, I discovered that the quote was registered as a trademark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingedlifecoaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}