{"id":342,"date":"2011-04-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-long-will-it-last\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T09:45:00","slug":"how-long-will-it-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-long-will-it-last\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Will It Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef014e874d7e3e970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roads\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef014e874d7e3e970d image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef014e874d7e3e970d-800wi\" title=\"Roads\" \/><\/a>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>When you consider where you and your options for a great life are at, how long do think you have to get things in order?&#0160; In other words, how long before you move forward with looking at your life as the thing you manage and not just your career, your money or your spiritual?<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn&#39;t need to ask many people to find out that the majority feels out of balance.&#0160; Many have made a deal with themselves to pick and choose what they will pay attention to.&#0160; A game of pretend where you believe that ignoring will make everything okay.&#0160; A warning may have been given, from a doctor or counselor, that was designed to shake the slumber.&#0160; But fear or insecurity continues its dominance.<\/p>\n<p>This all makes sense in so many ways.&#0160; Where do you go?&#0160; Who do you turn to?&#0160; What&#39;s the right pathway back or out?<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse we have a trust issue running through our modern day world.&#0160; It almost feels like you need the CIA to find out who really cares-in business and out.&#0160; I can&#39;t solve this, but I can be a source of consistent truth and encouragement.&#0160; My contribution to you and your journey.&#0160; The bottom line is you need help in making sense of your whole life.&#0160; Any successful life warrior I&#39;ve ever met always had help.&#0160; It is this help that is truly a difference-maker.&#0160; A way to a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you look away?&#0160; What if you tell yourself that it&#39;s too big of a mountain to change?&#0160; What if you believe the promises of your employer?&#0160; I would ask that you consider remembering the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<em>All of the disease, dysfunction, stress, and unhappiness would not be such a big deal if ignoring your whole life was a viable solution.&#0160; Employers wouldn&#39;t still be grappling with engagement and performance if relying on half-a-person to do the work that only a full person could do, was a viable solution.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160; &#0160; When you consider where you and your options for a great life are at, how long do think you have to get things in order?&#0160; In other words, how long before you move forward with looking at your life as the thing you manage and not just your career, your money or your&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[23,69,1322,621,1323,87,1324,269,119,67,99],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-coaching","tag-career","tag-career-management","tag-employee-engagement","tag-employees","tag-employers","tag-life-coaching","tag-management-practice","tag-professional-development","tag-self-help","tag-work","tag-work-life-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}