{"id":510,"date":"2014-01-30T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2025-11-15T06:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:13:27","slug":"the-only-way-to-get-better-at-something-is-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/quotes-of-inspiration\/the-only-way-to-get-better-at-something-is-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The only way to get better at something is to do it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-deep-burgandy-color has-text-color has-link-color has-def-font-size wp-elements-266248f14e44ffedbbf11d1e75ccabfa has-background\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:600;background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/smudge1.png&apos;);background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;\"><blockquote><p>Everybody in this world has a story to tell and they should share their stories<\/p><cite>\u2014 Ray Engan<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-def-font-size\"><strong>Ray Engan<\/strong>, winner of the 2013 Toastmaster International Speech contest for District 57 (Northern California). Engan believes we learn how to overcome adversity when we share our stories.&nbsp; Engan had to overcome his fear of public speaking. &nbsp;One of the people he met in Toastmasters, Darren La Croix, said something that inspired Engan, \u201cThe only way to get better at something is to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what are you waiting for?&nbsp; Write that story that\u2019s been simmering on the back burner. Just write!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rayengan.com\/\">Ray Engan<\/a>&nbsp;is a humorist, sales trainer and executive speech coach whose lively stories can be heard every month at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsidestoriespetaluma.com\/\">West Side Stories Petaluma<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-def-font-size\">Ray will be giving a seminar to add humor to presentations and your life in Petaluma, CA.&nbsp; Details soon on his&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rayengan.com\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody in this world has a story to tell and they should share their stories \u2014 Ray Engan Ray Engan, winner of the 2013 Toastmaster International Speech contest for District 57 (Northern California). Engan believes we learn how to overcome adversity when we share our stories.&nbsp; Engan had to overcome his fear of public speaking. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-with-comments","format":"standard","meta":{"selected_specialist_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2146,2147,2148],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-ray-engan","tag-toastmasters","tag-west-side-stories-petaluma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14869,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/14869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}