{"id":1026,"date":"2005-08-15T07:43:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T07:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why_the_past_is\/"},"modified":"2015-03-26T22:34:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T02:34:49","slug":"why_the_past_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why_the_past_is\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Past is Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in the mode of trusting in your past successes, then beware!\u00a0 It is a dangerous trap that many leaders small and large fall into.\u00a0 For some reason, our past triumphs lead us to believe that the future is discovered by them.\u00a0 In many ways this is not so.<\/p>\n<p>The past is a time-frame of occurrence.\u00a0 It was a place of experience and opportunity (if we were awake for it).\u00a0 The only value in the past is to &#8220;connect the dots.&#8221;\u00a0 We derive learning and encouragement from those &#8220;dots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be fooled, the future doesn&#8217;t care about your past&#8230;it was birthed by your experiences of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Start today by realizing that the future is about forward movement.\u00a0 You must make a conscious choice to look forward&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t happen naturally.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re living an Epic Life, then you know this is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in the mode of trusting in your past successes, then beware!\u00a0 It is a dangerous trap that many leaders small and large fall into.\u00a0 For some reason, our past triumphs lead us to believe that the future is discovered by them.\u00a0 In many ways this is not so. The past is a time-frame&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,123,6],"tags":[128,606,823,180,148,1779,1780],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-leadership-development","category-learning","tag-choices","tag-epic-life","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-future","tag-the-past","tag-why-the-past-is"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}