{"id":319,"date":"2011-07-07T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-pain-of-total-life-management\/"},"modified":"2015-03-30T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:18:03","slug":"the-pain-of-total-life-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-pain-of-total-life-management\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pain of Total Life Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef014e89abeb1f970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef014e89abeb1f970d image-full\" title=\"Pain\" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef014e89abeb1f970d-800wi\" alt=\"Pain\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our work with individuals and\u00a0businesses in the realm of total life management, we sometimes encounter the roadblock of pain.\u00a0 I&#8217;m referring to the type of pain associated with issue avoidance.\u00a0 This <a href=\"http:\/\/peakperformance.runnersworld.com\/2011\/06\/milkshakes-mile-repeats-and-your-mind-a-delicious-combination.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> from Runner&#8217;s World is very compelling illustrating what I mean.\u00a0 You can apply it to running, a fractured relationship or a workplace experience it doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>The gift of life does not reward us when we avoid issues in our 8 spheres of living.\u00a0 They only stand to either be a slow decay or an Achilles Heel in our time allotted here.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, my daughter asked me this morning whether I was sad about my older brother.\u00a0 My brother is a heroin addict and has been a substance abuser for the majority of his adult life.\u00a0 I explained to her that on a basic human condition level, I am sad for him.\u00a0 But I made a decision some years ago to not allow the crippling sadness (the type where my life was being sucked away and damage was being done to others I care about) be a part of my life.\u00a0 I did the crippling sadness routine for many years and it didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>We often look for things to cover up what we would like to avoid.\u00a0 Before my eyes were opened, I used my career and the success that came with it.\u00a0\u00a0By no stretch of the imagination do\u00a0I\u00a0have a problem or stress-free life, The breakthrough is found in that I don&#8217;t avoid the issues that come, or the pain associated with them.<\/p>\n<p>So are you willing to join me in facing the pain?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our work with individuals and\u00a0businesses in the realm of total life management, we sometimes encounter the roadblock of pain.\u00a0 I&#8217;m referring to the type of pain associated with issue avoidance.\u00a0 This post from Runner&#8217;s World is very compelling illustrating what I mean.\u00a0 You can apply it to running, a fractured relationship or a workplace&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],"tags":[39,87,1266,723,177,728,93,1267,245,1134],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-learning","tag-life","tag-life-coaching","tag-life-issues","tag-lifestyles","tag-management-2","tag-pain","tag-relationships-2","tag-runners-world","tag-stress","tag-total-life-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}