“Sorry Leesa, but this is unfixable. Most likely, the hinge broke off and it typically has a life span of 4-5 years. So, I’m not surprised that it broke now.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n John whipped out the guts of the iPod – the inside that no one sees. He showed me the hinge which you can see in the image below. <\/p>\n “The hinge is so important,” John said. “It flutters back and forth to play the music, however, it’s also very fragile. Once it breaks off, you just have to get a new iPod.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Twenty minutes later with my new iPod in my hand, I bounced out of the Apple Store thinking about this experience. <\/p>\n But most of all I realized that the iPod is such a metaphor to my life. The iPod shell is what we see on the outside. It’s pretty. It’s beautiful. If anyone saw my old iPod, you wouldn’t think anything was wrong.<\/p>\n The same with me. If you looked at my business, everything looked fine. I had mountains of information products. I was speaking at everyone’s virtual and non-virtual events. I was hosting my own well attended teleclasses. All looked well.<\/p>\n But inside the iPod, the hinge was deteriorating. It was slowly breaking down. Although it was doing what it was supposed to do, its lifespan was fixed. And I couldn’t see it slowly disintegrating because the shell hid what was going on inside.<\/p>\n Again, this was similar to my own business. I was unfocused. I followed every shiny object. My goal was making money, so I quickly launched a products to pull in income. My hinge was my success and although it worked flawlessly, it was slowly coming apart.<\/p>\n Once the hinge broke, my iPod no longer worked. It was useless. In my business, my hinge broke when people stopped buying my products and when my virtual and non-virtual events no longer filled up. My business had become useless.<\/p>\n Although I wasn’t able to save my old iPod, I was able to diagnose the problem with some help. I then got a new one because my creativity is useless without my iPod. The music and content I play on my iPod while I work, while I drive or while I work out at the gym keeps me motivated. I had to get a new one.<\/p>\n With my business, it could only be saved once I leaned on God. I put my entire trust in Him. God showed me that for me to be successful, I need to be in His presence. Ask for His guidance and humble myself as God directs me on a new path.<\/p>\n “If you do whatever I command you and walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statues and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David.”<\/em> 1 Kings 11: 38<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I ended 2010 with yet another thing breaking. After dissolving my corporation, breaking up with my boyfriend, resigning from a non-profit board I sat on and seeing my laptop screen fizzle, my iPod stopped working. I bought it in 2006 as a gift to myself for ending the year on such a great note. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-narrative","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/imgIPodHinge.png\" "\\"imgIPodHinge\\"")
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