{"id":623,"date":"2011-06-07T22:49:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T03:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=623"},"modified":"2011-06-29T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:18:07","slug":"prayer-as-a-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Prayer As A Tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently attended an industry CRM event. I was given one of<br \/>\nthose logoed bags that one normally gets at such events. You know the ones.<br \/>\nThey are stuffed with chachkas, a couple of brochures and possibly a<br \/>\nmap or agenda. One of the items in the bag was Dale Carnegie&#8217;s Golden Book.<br \/>\nDale Carnegie is, of course, the author of How To Win Friends &amp; Influence<br \/>\nPeople.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many pieces of advice in this little fold-out is one<br \/>\nthat caught my attention. Under the category of &#8216;The Perfect Way to Conquer<br \/>\nWorry&#8217; it simply states `Pray.`<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of praying as an antidote to worry? As a<br \/>\nmarketer, contributor, manager or executive what are the implications of facing<br \/>\nworry with prayer? This piece of advice, seemingly, goes against standard<br \/>\nwisdom that worrying needs to be confronted through action. Then again Carnegie<br \/>\nis also the author of How To Stop Worrying And Start Living.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_626\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carnegie_Dale.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-626\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-626\" title=\"Carnegie_Dale\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carnegie_Dale-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making Friends By Turning Your Back<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently attended an industry CRM event. I was given one of those logoed bags that one normally gets at such events. You know the ones. They are stuffed with chachkas, a couple of brochures and possibly a map or agenda. One of the items in the bag was Dale Carnegie&#8217;s Golden Book. Dale Carnegie <a href='https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=623' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"Ali Ghaemi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}