{"id":137,"date":"2008-05-15T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/changeyourbody.wordpress.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-05-15T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T11:25:11","slug":"failing-the-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2008\/05\/15\/failing-the-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing the Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who reads my blog is either very faithful or has a lot of time on their hands, since I only post about once a week and I&#8217;ve been getting nominated for most boring blog on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>That is changing as I write because I now am going to focus all of my attention on my blog and my message board posts &#8211; <a title=\"Team Howtobefit Resource Center\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.teambeachbody.com\/groupee\/forums\/a\/tpc\/f\/831103293\/m\/8391066611\">informational<\/a> and <a title=\"Team Beachbody New Mexico\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.teambeachbody.com\/groupee\/forums\/a\/tpc\/f\/243108477\/m\/6231001521\">business<\/a> &#8211; and it will now be worth it to you to stop in and read.<\/p>\n<p>You may think that I finally figured out that spending the better part of a day creating a newsletter would be my motivation to &#8220;downsize&#8221; to a blog that I can update at will and that certainly played a part in my decision.<\/p>\n<p>The greater motivation was a survival instinct and rather than paying, in my case, $446.30 next month to renew my contract with my newsletter delivery service, I would instead use my wonderful, free WordPress blog and the free Beachbody Message Boards to convey my thoughts and wisdom and what little knowledge I can still access in my old brain.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to survival of the fittest, part of criteria for survival is being smart and I just need to be smart. \u00a0 So all of you faithful readers of my blog will now be seeing what all of my subscribers saw and hopefully they won&#8217;t abandon me and come here to read it when all they used to have to do was go to their email in box!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who reads my blog is either very faithful or has a lot of time on their hands, since I only post about once a week and I&#8217;ve been getting nominated for most boring blog on the Internet. 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