{"id":10606,"date":"2015-04-11T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=10606"},"modified":"2015-04-11T10:16:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:16:40","slug":"how-to-keep-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2015\/04\/11\/how-to-keep-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Welcome-Doorway-115\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
Welcome Doorway<\/em>, click for larger view and availability.\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n

I was speaking somewhere and made reference to my art. Afterward a young man came up to me and said, “My brother’s an artist, and struggling. Would you have any advice for him?”<\/p>\n

I thought it a strange question, not because the question was strange, but that it wasn’t coming from the struggling person. How could I answer? I couldn’t even see the person’s work, or hear his story, or form any idea at all what his particular struggles might be?<\/p>\n

Then it came to me. \u201cYes,\u201d I said, \u201cTell him this: Walk though every door that opens, and knock on all others.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that the man looked at me a moment, thanked me and walked away. I’ve never seen him again, and I have no idea how the advice was received.<\/p>\n

But through it, I received something myself; and I’ve since passed it on to many others.<\/p>\n

Our struggles are often due to lack of opportunities. We do have something to contribute. Yes, our quality could be better, should be better . . . but the honing comes from the doing. And we need reasons to be doing. We need openings. We need someone somewhere to need us.<\/p>\n

That’s where the doors come into play. When we’re asked to do something, or see opportunity where we can contribute something, that’s an opening. Take it. Doing it provides the focus, the occupation, the chance to refine our skills. And likely it’ll be a chance to try something new.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the focus becomes\u00a0\u201cfor others,\u201d getting our minds off our preoccupying selves. And that’s a gift right there.<\/p>\n

So is just being “busy.”<\/p>\n

Then, as you’re walking along, working along, occupied with the challenges\u00a0at hand, there will be other doors in the periphery of your path. Who knows what’s behind them, or which will open if knocked on? Just knock as you go. Knock on a lot. All you need is one at a time.<\/p>\n

The counsel was for a struggling artist. But\u00a0which of us isn’t a\u00a0struggling artist at one time or another? The principle is for all.<\/p>\n

Doors are everywhere. Enter the one open before you now, and get knocking on others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a precept that applies to everyone everywhere, and can get us beyond our malaise . . . and so natural to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10613,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions\/10613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}