{"id":16281,"date":"2019-07-17T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/competing-to-win\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:16:00","slug":"competing-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/07\/17\/competing-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Competing To Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/insurancenews.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/InnMagazine\/competing-to-win-INNM0819.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\nSprinter <strong>Lauryn Williams<\/strong> debuted as an Olympian in 2004, taking a silver medal in the 100 meters during the Athens games. The American fell .03 seconds short of gold.<\/p>\n<p>\nWilliams worked and trained daily for years to keep her dream of Olympic gold alive. Finally, she got the chance at the 2012 London games and returned home with a gold medal as part of the USA\u2019s record-setting 4X100 meter relay team.<\/p>\n<p>\nNow in her second career as a financial advisor, Williams, 35, is leaning on her athletic experiences to help navigate a similarly challenging path to success.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2019m trying to teach myself to measure and really focus on what I\u2019m accomplishing one step at a time instead of basically feeling like every client conversation is a championship race,\u201d said Williams, who started her virtual company, Worth Winning, three years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\u201cYou\u2019re planting seeds all the time as an entrepreneur and some of those seeds are going to have a really delayed return on investment. But just show up and do the best that you can in that moment and be really proud of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/innm\/docs\/innm_0819\/22?fr=sODViNTQ1ODAy\">Read the full version of this feature in our online issue.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/insurancenewsnetmagazine.com\/article\/competing-to-win-3709\">Read the original article at InsuranceNewsNetMagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprinter Lauryn Williams debuted as an Olympian in 2004, taking a silver medal in the 100 meters during the Athens games. The American fell .03 seconds short of gold. Williams worked and trained daily&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}