{"id":1043,"date":"2005-07-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/five_things_onl\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T11:30:00","slug":"five_things_onl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/five_things_onl\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I told my bride last week that there are only about five things to be concerned with.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Every other obsession, distraction, action item is a waste of our limited time offer.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>There is a chapter in my book (Waking the Working Dead) that is called \u201cBeware of the Evil Number Seventeen.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Number seventeen represents that number on our list of priorities.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I wrote that chapter because number seventeen seeks a lot of our attention, as well as our devotion.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We should take a nuclear bomb to number seventeen on our list.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It ain\u2019t important!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p><span face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Since we all are terminal (life is a limited time offer, no matter what you\u2019ve read in Fortune), why not focus on a few things.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Yes, I know Stephen Covey wrote about this.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>But Jesus spoke about it way before him.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>A life well lived is wrapped in about five things\u2026not seventeen.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p><span face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">When you hit the half-way point in life, you\u2019ll value only a few precious things.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Life on this side of eternity goes fast.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Don\u2019t think you\u2019ve got time.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The statistics are not on your side.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Besides, your passions are inside of those few precious things.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Go live!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told my bride last week that there are only about five things to be concerned with.&nbsp; Every other obsession, distraction, action item is a waste of our limited time offer.&nbsp; There is a chapter in my book (Waking the Working Dead) that is called \u201cBeware of the Evil Number Seventeen.\u201d&nbsp; Number seventeen represents that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","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=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}