{"id":290,"date":"2011-10-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-loss-and-the-gain\/"},"modified":"2011-10-04T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:30:00","slug":"the-loss-and-the-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-loss-and-the-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loss and the Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"

As painful as it may sound, and potentially feel, being in a position where you have nothing to lose is a pretty inspired place to be.  I'll give you one caveat with that; it is a relative exercise.  In other words, your place of nothing to lose could look different than mine.<\/p>\n

The following is a clip from Inc<\/a>  They did a fabulous job featuring Ryan Blair<\/a>, the author or Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain<\/a><\/em>.  He has a perspective that I "get."  Take the time to watch and see if he doesn't make you think through your own perspective on how you view losses and gains.<\/p>\n

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My big take-away from Ryan's talk is you don't want to be in the middle.  It's a vulnerable place to be.  If you're not careful you'll wake up and find you're a slave to multiple things (job, money, power, etc.).  And remember, there are people who don't make a lot of money, don't have prestigious titles, don't get promoted, who are very wealthy.<\/p>\n

Manage your life well!<\/p>\n

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As painful as it may sound, and potentially feel, being in a position where you have nothing to lose is a pretty inspired place to be.  I'll give you one caveat with that; it is a relative exercise.  In other words, your place of nothing to lose could look different than mine. The following is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,6],"tags":[22,265,1175,1171,540,272,1174,1173,413,1172],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-learning","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurism","tag-everything-to-gain","tag-gains","tag-inc-magazine","tag-loss","tag-nothing-to-lose","tag-ryan-blair","tag-success","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}