{"id":6413,"date":"2024-03-02T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2024-03-05T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T20:06:16","slug":"the-starfish-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/the-starfish-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Starfish story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably come across this story at one point or another, the story goes..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, \u201cLittle girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can\u2019t save all these starfish. You can\u2019t begin to make a difference!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cWell, I made a difference for that one!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<cite>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestarfishchange.org\/starfish-tale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Tale of the Starfish<\/a>.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What a great mantra. No you can&#8217;t change everything but you can have an impact for that one person right there, or with that one client, or with that one friend. And for that person, it makes a world of difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can&#8217;t help everyone but you can help this person right here right now. It&#8217;s refreshing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really like this as a mode of thinking, when I meet new people, I try to do what I can to help. No I can&#8217;t do everything but maybe 1-2 things will help make all the difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably come across this story at one point or another, the story goes.. A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions\/6419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}