{"id":312,"date":"2011-07-28T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/getting-your-life-back\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T09:52:00","slug":"getting-your-life-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/getting-your-life-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Your Life Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was twelve I knew I wanted to be this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ONS-DLX-4dg\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>As time has moved on, I still am, and do desire to continue to be, an artist.&#0160; The level and notice that comes my way always changes.&#0160; Absolutely fine with me.&#0160; I am an artist creating daily with words, with ideas&#0160;with love, and with my life.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago I allowed the Matrix (corporations, people, religion, and more) to convince me that I was not an artist or someone wired with a lot of imagination and creativity.&#0160; It whispered ever so softly that I needed put the &quot;art&quot; away and remember the importance of security. It almost worked, but I wanted and got my life back.&#0160; I write the following with great emphasis:<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<strong><em>Get your life back!&#0160; Whatever you must do, get your life back<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here are the lessons I&#39;ve learned in this motion picture:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Go slow and start small.&#0160; One more time, go slow and start small<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Most people are not going to like you beyond the surface.&#0160; Your life is not about the surface, so get on with it.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for help.<\/li>\n<li>Know what&#39;s most important to you, not to anyone else, as be&#0160;commited to those things.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#39;t make people happy or ok, even those you love deeply.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was twelve I knew I wanted to be this: &#0160; As time has moved on, I still am, and do desire to continue to be, an artist.&#0160; The level and notice that comes my way always changes.&#0160; Absolutely fine with me.&#0160; I am an artist creating daily with words, with ideas&#0160;with love, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,54],"tags":[232,1249,39,75,87,468,795,1247,93,1248,240],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-learning","category-life-perspectives","tag-artist","tag-creative","tag-life","tag-life-choices","tag-life-coaching","tag-life-management","tag-life-skills","tag-nick-beggs","tag-relationships-2","tag-teva","tag-well-being"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}