{"id":183,"date":"2012-11-02T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/dont-save-the-b\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T06:27:00","slug":"dont-save-the-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/dont-save-the-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Save the Best for Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I wrote the following post almost 5 years ago. In some ways timeless. I&#39;m convinced everyday that I don&#39;t &quot;have time.&quot; A great sadness that many live everyday thinking they do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m all for finishing strong\/well.&#0160; However, the myth of your best years being found in some future day is insane.&#0160; I say that due to the importance of the choices you make now and how they will determine those years-taking for granted that you&#39;ll see them.&#0160; Forever now! <\/p>\n<p>I can&#39;t think of a more fitting place than our career to illustrate how this type of logic reigns.&#0160; It&#39;s subltle and deceptive all at the same time.&#0160; If a leader doesn&#39;t see his or her life as a whole, then a incongruent outcome is almost always certain.<\/p>\n<p>As leaders seek to navigate a career and <strong>a life<\/strong>, I would suggest the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Think long and hard about value.&#0160; Specifically, the value you&#39;re creating over time.&#0160; In many ways it&#39;s like starring in your own motion picture.&#0160; Create Epic Value for all those playing a part in your story.&#0160; Keep in mind, there are no do-overs.&#0160; You will either create value or you won&#39;t. <\/li>\n<li>Before you read that next journal, newspaper or marketing pitch take a step back and question the motives of the messengers.&#0160; For example, many marketers are dying on the vine, so selling is job 1.&#0160; What they&#39;re selling might be designed to move you in a direction that isn&#39;t aligned with your destiny. <\/li>\n<li>Stop thinking you have time.&#0160; We&#39;re all terminal, its just that some know and some don&#39;t.&#0160; Don&#39;t mean to go morbid here, but seeing life as a limited time offer should inspire you to stop screwing around with small desires (titles, money, fame, and power). <\/li>\n<li>Be Authentic!&#0160; Let the world see who you really are!&#0160; If you don&#39;t like who you are or think that who you are has no value, then contact me and I can prove that you have a reason to be who you are. <\/li>\n<li>Place more value on people than math, no matter how much the numbers say to do otherwise.&#0160; Besides, if you&#39;re in a position where numbers matter more than people, be afraid, be very afraid. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the below story from <a href=\"guardian.co.uk%20\u00a9%20Guardian%20News%20and%20Media%20Limited%202008\">The Guardian\/UK<\/a> on <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/stephen-king-9365136\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Stephen King\">Stephen King<\/a> for more connection:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The accident happened on June 19 1999. King was strolling alongside Route 5 near his home in Bangor and looking forward to seeing a film with his family later that evening. As he walked, a Dodge truck barreled towards him. It was driven by Bryan Smith, a drug user with multiple driving convictions. A Rottweiler called Bullet was loose in the truck and had jumped on to a seat where there was a cooler of hamburger meat Smith had bought for a barbecue. Smith became distracted by his dog, swerved across the highway and hit King. The writer managed to turn his head a little before impact and thus missed being struck by a steel support post on the truck that would probably have killed him. <\/p>\n<p>King&#39;s head left a many-tentacled crack in the windscreen. He broke his right hip joint, four ribs and his right leg in nine places. His spine was damaged in eight places. &quot;The accident gave me a real sense of mortality, a sense of hurry that I didn&#39;t have before. Not immediately, but about a year after the accident I was able to say: &#39;That guy nearly killed me.&#39;&quot; Smith died of an overdose 15 months later on September 21, King&#39;s birthday.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.6em;\">guardian.co.uk \u00a9 <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guardian_Media_Group\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guardian Media Group\">Guardian News and Media Limited<\/a> 2008<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the following post almost 5 years ago. In some ways timeless. I&#8217;m convinced everyday that I don&#8217;t &#8220;have time.&#8221; A great sadness that many live everyday thinking they do. I&#8217;m all for finishing strong\/well.  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