{"id":20,"date":"2018-02-11T17:26:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T17:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2018-03-26T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:38:19","slug":"ysm-stt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/ysm-stt\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Shift Matters: Surviving to Thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/template-4-70440401517519887-large-273x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please join me and 18 remarkable writers relating their personal &#8216;shifts&#8217; from surviving to thriving.<\/p>\n<p>On sale at Amazon.com, place your order now!<\/p>\n<p>[amazon_link asins=&#8217;1513631209&#8242; template=&#8217;ProductAd&#8217; store=&#8217;AMZN-US-WyvernHall&#8217; marketplace=&#8217;US&#8217; link_id=&#8217;dfd53d62-2070-11e8-ac01-71f83ffcc910&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fire-031287-1-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fire-031287-1-291x300.jpg 291w, http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fire-031287-1-768x792.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fire-031287-1-993x1024.jpg 993w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Upson operating Ladder 1 at the Center Street Fire, March 5, 1987, Courtesy of the Southington Observer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On March 5, 1987, the Southington Fire Department responded to a fire that led to four fatalities; three of them young children. This event was a major influence on my 31-year career as a firefighter and my second career as a fire protection engineer and fire sprinkler advocate.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49\" style=\"width: 104px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-49\" src=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ladder1-FB-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ladder1-FB-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/TheSkepticalPagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ladder1-FB.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Lee Dibble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;Some positive shifts are epiphanies; lightning strokes that come unheralded out of a cloudless sky, leaving change and renewal in their wake. Others happen unnoticed over time; meandering journeys that twist up and down through a landscape of hills and valleys that only reveal in hindsight that we have crossed mountains unaware. My own shift was the latter. I didn\u2019t really see it until after I had retired from the fire department and moved on to my second career.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Also available from the Your Shift Matters series:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n[amazon_link asins=&#8217;1513623729&#8242; template=&#8217;ProductAd&#8217; store=&#8217;AMZN-US-WyvernHall&#8217; marketplace=&#8217;US&#8217; link_id=&#8217;1e9f4a12-1000-11e8-a2f4-87f4f9e0fdc2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join me and 18 remarkable writers relating their personal &#8216;shifts&#8217; from surviving to thriving. On sale at Amazon.com, place your order now! 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