{"id":2035,"date":"2018-01-12T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2018-01-12T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:38:08","slug":"what-are-you-counting-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/what-are-you-counting-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Counting On?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What are you counting on? A simple and straightforward question. It reveals more about you and I than meets the mind.<\/p>\n

The things we’re counting on reveal our identity.<\/p>\n

Maybe you’re counting on someone to make you happy. Maybe your counting on that quarterly bonus. Regardless, these things shape our identity\u00a0without notice. A subtle defining that happens slowly over time. Identity should be formed by the immovable or at a minimum something we’re willing to stake the risk on.<\/p>\n

Here’s a brief list of what I’m counting on:<\/p>\n

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  1. God’s understanding<\/li>\n
  2. My wife’s commitment<\/li>\n
  3. My children’s love<\/li>\n
  4. Friendship of a few<\/li>\n
  5. Solitude<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As you can see from my list, there are some things that could fail me. I don’t mind because I’m willing to take the risk. And oh, the heart-break that could ensue just the same. This is living.<\/p>\n

    Don’t count on what is fleeting and temporal. Marketing often bugs us to the contrary, but that’s just selling something we really don’t need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What are you counting on? A simple and straightforward question. It reveals more about you and I than meets the mind. The things we’re counting on reveal our identity. Maybe you’re counting on someone to make you happy. Maybe your counting on that quarterly bonus. Regardless, these things shape our identity\u00a0without notice. A subtle defining…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1856,1,1907],"tags":[86,220,807,808,1149,274,525],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-life-management","category-uncategorized","category-well-being","tag-family","tag-god","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-identity","tag-love","tag-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","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=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}