{"id":3966,"date":"2011-12-16T15:34:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2011-12-16T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:14:19","slug":"whos-packing-your-parachute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/whos-packing-your-parachute\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Packing Your Parachute?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/preview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3977\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/whos-packing-your-parachute\/preview\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/preview.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"preview\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/preview-600x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/preview.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3977\" title=\"preview\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who is packing your parachute?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the most practiced when it comes to religion, but I do have a very deep well of faith. Listening to this podcast on a weekly basis really keeps me centered and focused on the important things in life.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re not very religious (or don&#8217;t believe in a higher power at all) you will find this interesting. We all have people that helped us get to where we are today, and remembering that is very humbling.<\/p>\n<p>Perspective can be very powerful.<\/p>\n<p>[qt:\/blog\/video\/2011-1216_PackYourParachute.mov \/blog\/video\/2011-1216_PackYourParachute_poster.jpg \/blog\/video\/2011-1216_PackYourParachute.mp3 600 337]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have people that helped us get to where we are today, and remembering that is very humbling. Perspective can be very powerful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,4,5],"tags":[55,259],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-text","category-video","tag-joel-osteen","tag-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-11Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3800,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/new-book-moonwalking-with-einstein\/","url_meta":{"origin":3966,"position":0},"title":"New Book: Moonwalking With Einstein","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"September 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/book\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 69230","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Moonwalking_with_Einstein_The_Art_and_Science_of_Remembering_Everything-69230.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":136,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/toms-new-podcast-page\/","url_meta":{"origin":3966,"position":1},"title":"Tom&#8217;s New Podcast Page","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"May 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom's New Podcast Page You can now subscribe to Tom\u2019s podcast, and receive books and videos that Tom wants to share with the world!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Web Link&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Web Link","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/web-link\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3303,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/06\/profound-and-moving-words\/","url_meta":{"origin":3966,"position":2},"title":"Profound and Moving Words","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"March 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I I previously mentioned I'm readying the book The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle. 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