{"id":1343,"date":"2014-05-15T06:31:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T10:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2014-05-14T22:43:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T02:43:58","slug":"whats-in-your-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/whats-in-your-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In Your Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DeathtoStock_Wired1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DeathtoStock_Wired1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"DeathtoStock_Wired1\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DeathtoStock_Wired1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DeathtoStock_Wired1-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s in your cup matters. So, as in life, whatever you choose to drink better be what you want. Your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-legacy-cliff-a-guest-post-by-dr-andrew-thorn\/\" target=\"_blank\">legacy<\/a> will see its reflection in the contents.<\/p>\n<p>As time unfurls, you&#8217;re often told to conform to some norm. Marketing and well intentioned (some not) people tell you what you must be. The lies are mixed with half-truths, and before you know it 10 years flies by. 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The shock and awe of the above reality should shake you to the core.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lost many so-called friends over the years. Typically, it occurred when I noticed a pattern of conditions. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unconditional_love\" target=\"_blank\">Unconditional love<\/a> and friendship is rare. I would even test my theory by purposely going the opposite way. A fascinating thing occurred when I decided to do this. My calls were not returned. Hmmm, right? In my case, many just watched (and said nothing) as I took the poison pills.<\/p>\n<p>You need to weed these sort of folks out of your life. They&#8217;re blocking the entrance for people who matter.<\/p>\n<p>I can;&#8217;t stress the danger enough. So many people are living under the pressure of a world gone mad. It&#8217;s the type of pressure that can be habit-forming. It&#8217;s taken me almost 8 years to fully shed the skin of living someone else&#8217;s life. That&#8217;s the problem of doing something over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what&#8217;s in your cup?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in your cup matters. So, as in life, whatever you choose to drink better be what you want. Your legacy will see its reflection in the contents. As time unfurls, you&#8217;re often told to conform to some norm. Marketing and well intentioned (some not) people tell you what you must be. The lies are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6,1,7],"tags":[607,1619,823,180,602,603,75,87,1621,1620,271,17,42,1011,1618],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-learning","category-uncategorized","category-wellbeing","tag-andrew-thorn","tag-coffee","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-legacy","tag-legacy-cliff","tag-life-choices","tag-life-coaching","tag-phd","tag-tea","tag-time","tag-wellbeing-2","tag-wellness","tag-what-you-want","tag-your-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}