{"id":307,"date":"2011-08-15T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/is-your-life-a-misdemeanor-or-a-felony\/"},"modified":"2011-08-15T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T09:45:00","slug":"is-your-life-a-misdemeanor-or-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/is-your-life-a-misdemeanor-or-a-felony\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Life a Misdemeanor or a Felony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef015390a43b95970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scales of Justice\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef015390a43b95970b image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef015390a43b95970b-800wi\" title=\"Scales of Justice\" \/><\/a>&#0160;<br \/>This post will require you to forget the normal definitions and feelings about crime.&#0160; My play on words for this&#0160;post&#0160;require the following context:<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<em>Misdemeanors will only create an insignificant interaction with legal authorities.&#0160; You might even get off with a warning.&#0160; In the end, your act was more of a blip or blur.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Felonies, on the other hand are serious actions and cause&#0160;disrupption.&#0160; Authorities will do all they can to see that something big happens.&#0160; Proper attention is given and depending on seriousness of the action, in might create widespread interest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m going to give you a compare and contrast illustration from a few areas of life to help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Money -A misdemeanor would be throwing a few dollars into a savings account every now and then.&#0160; A felony would be creating a plan to get out of debt, that would map out small experiments\/steps to accomplish the goal.<\/li>\n<li>Physical &#8211; A misdemeanor would be taking your dog for a walk in the warmer months, but not in the cooler seasons.&#0160; A felony would be creating a plan to get your heart rate up to 70% max, that includes small experiments\/steps around biking.<\/li>\n<li>Social &#8211; A misdemeanor would be saying hello to a neighbor when you see them in the morning or afternoon.&#0160; A felony would be creating a plan to introduce yourself to someone you&#39;ve never met in 3 areas of your company, that would incorporate small experiments\/steps of networking with a manager or co-worker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The big take-away is, blips&#0160;and blurrs are forgotten and lead to a wasted life.&#0160; On the other hand, serious actions and disrupptions are remembered and lead to a life well-lived.&#0160; Which do you prefer?<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;This post will require you to forget the normal definitions and feelings about crime.&#0160; My play on words for this&#0160;post&#0160;require the following context: &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Misdemeanors will only create an insignificant interaction with legal authorities.&#0160; You might even get off with a warning.&#0160; In the end, your act was more of a blip or blur. &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Felonies, on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,54],"tags":[1228,39,87,468,1229,9,704],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-life-perspectives","tag-felonies","tag-life","tag-life-coaching","tag-life-management","tag-misdemeanors","tag-money","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}