{"id":5145,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/looking-to-the-future\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:14","slug":"looking-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/looking-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking To the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, FIRST THINGS FIRST, author Stephen Covey writes about Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychologist who survived the death camps of Nazi Germany.  Frankl made a startling discovery about why some survived the horrible conditions and some did not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked at several factors &#8211; health, vitality, family structure, intelligence, survival skills.  Finally he concluded that none of these factors was primarily responsible.  The single most significant factor, he realized, was a sense of future vision &#8211; the impelling conviction of those who were to survive that they had a mission to perform, some important work left to do.  Survivors of POW camps in Vietnam and elsewhere have reported similar experiences: a compelling, future-oriented vision is the primary force that kept many of them alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Covey, FIRST THINGS FIRST, p 103.  Fireside; Reprint edition, January 1996.  Contributed by Joel Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, FIRST THINGS FIRST, author Stephen Covey writes about Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychologist who survived the death camps of Nazi Germany. Frankl made a startling discovery about why some survived the horrible conditions and some did not. \u201cHe looked at several factors &#8211; health, vitality, family structure, intelligence, survival skills. Finally he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1421,278,1524,280,3754,327],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}