{"id":1461,"date":"2014-08-25T06:32:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2014-08-24T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T21:20:51","slug":"risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10530837_609074022539515_7267288871608564205_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10530837_609074022539515_7267288871608564205_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"10530837_609074022539515_7267288871608564205_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10530837_609074022539515_7267288871608564205_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10530837_609074022539515_7267288871608564205_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take me long, as a kid, to know I was born an entrepreneur. A risk-taker who understood that to live, is to risk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The above definition is from <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\" target=\"_blank\">dictionary.com<\/a> and notice the word any.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t the kid selling lemonade on the street corner for twenty-five cents. Though I had similar ventures way back when. I liken my path as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Entrepreneurs-Ordinary-Creating-Extraordinary\/dp\/0787988626\" target=\"_blank\">life entrepreneur<\/a>, who had varied enterprises, with varying levels of risk. Each of them shaping who I have become today.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t always gotten it right or been celebrated for my achievements. Quite frankly, some of my biggest successes are ignored to this day.<\/p>\n<p>So I think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What are you risking today? Are you involved in any tremors or ripples? Have you stood up when most remain seated?<\/p>\n<p>Embrace risk because it is a key to epic living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take me long, as a kid, to know I was born an entrepreneur. A risk-taker who understood that to live, is to risk. &nbsp; a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. &nbsp; The above definition is from dictionary.com and notice the word any.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1050,5,6,7],"tags":[497,1681,20,823,180,826,75,1680,525,413,240,17],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-cool-things","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-learning","category-wellbeing","tag-courage","tag-dictionary-com","tag-entrepreneur","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-faith","tag-life-choices","tag-life-entrepreneur","tag-risk","tag-success","tag-well-being","tag-wellbeing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","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=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}