{"id":1737,"date":"2013-02-14T13:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T21:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the365effect.com\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2017-02-14T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:15:24","slug":"5-key-strategies-to-strengthen-your-backbone-and-not-your-wishbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the365effect.com\/5-key-strategies-to-strengthen-your-backbone-and-not-your-wishbone\/","title":{"rendered":"5 key strategies to strengthen your BACKBONE and not your wishbone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Everyone’s heard the idiom “The straw that broke the camels back” but have you ever thought about how that applies to your own life? What are your strategies for strengthening your backbone?<\/p>\n

The idiom is from an Arabic proverb about how a camel is loaded beyond its capacity to move or stand.\u00a0 The inconsequential addition of a single straw (the final straw) is the process that causes failure or the broken back.<\/p>\n

What is it about those “Final Straws” and how come there always seems to be so many of them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s a question to think about\u00a0 – Are the same straws breaking your back over and over again no matter what you’ve loaded up?<\/p>\n

When thinking about today’s post I reflected back on my The 365 Effect journey.\u00a0 I started The 365 Effect in 2009 and at that point I’d no idea what I was getting myself into.\u00a0 I didn’t have a plan, a language or a process outlined for the HOW I was going to finish off this year-long commitment.\u00a0 All I knew was this:<\/p>\n