{"id":245,"date":"2012-02-21T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/gaining-perspective\/"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:46:21","slug":"gaining-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/gaining-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaining Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef016762bb884d970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"October 2011 007\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef016762bb884d970b image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef016762bb884d970b-800wi\" title=\"October 2011 007\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the beauty of gaining perspective. I&#39;m certain if we (including me) took more time to take a step back, our lenses would be clearer. The kind of clarity we long for in the midst of our daily madness.<\/p>\n<p>I have gained much perspective in the these early days of 2012. Ironic, given my kicking and screaming in the last part of 2011. Forced perspective is a good thing too. I now have a peace about not just knowing, but of understanding. This needs to happen in-order to move to behavior change.<\/p>\n<p>The following are some perspectives I&#39;ve come to lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarity of mind is played before an audience of One. It doesn&#39;t matter if nobody else understands. Embrace the clarity and keep moving.<\/li>\n<li>Money is important. But treat it as a soulless animal. It can&#39;t make anything better, it&#39;s just a tool for support and sustainability.&#0160;<\/li>\n<li>There is no ending until you&#39;ve breathed your last. Life is a series of chapters. I want my choices to frame a story that will flow into a great legacy, whether I get to see it or not. I feel good about this.<\/li>\n<li>I am limited and will never be limitless. I operate under the reality that God is limitless and a bigger Freak than me. This implies that He will ask me to do things that will blow my mind.<\/li>\n<li>In certain circumstances, I must stand still in the hurricane. No looking for shelter, no panic, just be there, even when it feels like the end is looking me right in the eye.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the beauty of gaining perspective. I&#39;m certain if we (including me) took more time to take a step back, our lenses would be clearer. The kind of clarity we long for in the midst of our daily madness. I have gained much perspective in the these early days of 2012. Ironic, given my kicking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,54],"tags":[81,693,974,978,976,113,977,975],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-life-perspectives","tag-change","tag-clarity","tag-gaining","tag-gaining-clarity","tag-gaining-perspective","tag-learning-2","tag-lessons","tag-perspective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}