{"id":221,"date":"2012-06-08T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/when-winning-produces-a-loss\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:13:45","slug":"when-winning-produces-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/when-winning-produces-a-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"When Winning Produces a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May sound contrariain, but sometimes winning can produce a loss. From a sports perspective, your team may win the game, but if your star player goes down with an injury, that's a big loss. This can apply to life too. You know, we've been told how great it is to be the one who's in charge or the one everyone wants to hear from. All the while forgetting the price involved.<\/p>\n

We've been turned into sheep. We're led along with the herd and told what we must be. All the while being seduced into believing that all of the goods and awards make being a sheep not such a bad thing. And the longer we stay in the herd, the greater the chance we will never have the will to live differently.<\/p>\n

The reality is found in understanding that if we win at the expense of something very important, we will lose and that will be the lasting legacy.<\/p>\n

I really don't want to insult your intelligence by creating a "here's how" list for avoiding this plague (winning that produces loss). Truth is, most of us know what we need to do (take our spouse out on a date, begin the exercise plan, cut back on work, etc.), it's just our will and courage to do it.<\/p>\n

If you're in the category of not knowing, then read this post<\/a> from awhile back for some direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May sound contrariain, but sometimes winning can produce a loss. From a sports perspective, your team may win the game, but if your star player goes down with an injury, that's a big loss. This can apply to life too. You know, we've been told how great it is to be the one who's in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[86,852,853,39,273,848,851,854,849,842,850,67],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-learning","tag-family","tag-herd","tag-herd-mentality","tag-life","tag-losing","tag-producing-loss","tag-sheep","tag-spouse","tag-win","tag-winning","tag-winning-producing-loss","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}