{"id":323,"date":"2011-06-22T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-process-not-the-event\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T09:45:00","slug":"the-process-not-the-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-process-not-the-event\/","title":{"rendered":"The Process, Not the Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&#0160;road of life includes&#0160;processes and events.&#0160; Many prefer the events, and that&#39;s a problem.&#0160; Events are not the enemy, it&#39;s the over-attraction to them that creates the&#0160;pitfall.&#0160; But it&#39;s understandable why we prefer that moment of elation, since events gives us immediate stimulation that we want and maybe crave.&#0160; Nobody talks a lot about processes because it tends to require faith, imagination and vision.&#0160; Did I mention that it can feel like drudgery.<\/p>\n<p>One of the my best experiences in the process and event arena has been my marriage.&#0160; It began with a big event, the ceremony.&#0160; Great joy and happiness.&#0160; The future seemed unbelievably bright.&#0160; And then she had to face the reality of living with me(humor is important here).&#0160; That event was 20 years-plus ago.&#0160; We&#39;re still happily together because of the process, and not the event.&#0160; Ironic how the thing that feels like work produces the happiness we so desperately desire.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly there is no substitute for knowing what you&#39;re doing is a fit.&#0160; Be it in your career, your money, your learning, etc.&#0160; But once that&#39;s been settled, you&#39;ve got to embrace the process.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&#0160;road of life includes&#0160;processes and events.&#0160; Many prefer the events, and that&#39;s a problem.&#0160; Events are not the enemy, it&#39;s the over-attraction to them that creates the&#0160;pitfall.&#0160; But it&#39;s understandable why we prefer that moment of elation, since events gives us immediate stimulation that we want and maybe crave.&#0160; Nobody talks a lot about processes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[1275,23,1276,39,1184,720,1117,1274,93],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-entrepreneur-advice","tag-business-process","tag-career","tag-events","tag-life","tag-live-events","tag-marriage","tag-presentations","tag-process","tag-relationships-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}