{"id":347,"date":"2011-03-28T21:45:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/defining-a-blue-sky-experience\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:45:25","slug":"defining-a-blue-sky-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/defining-a-blue-sky-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining A Blue Sky Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef014e602d3280970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"March 28 2011 002\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef014e602d3280970c image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef014e602d3280970c-800wi\" title=\"March 28 2011 002\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you define a blue sky experience? Is it some place over yonder? Is it a person? I see it as a moment. Just one moment.<\/p>\n<p>Even in a business like mine where you work hard to get people engaged, I always take a step back and consider those who claim they have no time, shrink back in fear or laugh off the thought of what a blue sky experience might mean.&#0160; I guess you can&#39;t escape all of the things that get in the way of blue skies.<\/p>\n<p>Since we began our partnership with Take Time for Your Life, it has become very clear about what&#39;s at stake.&#0160; Think of the premise of the words &quot;take time for your life.&quot;&#0160; The&#0160;urgency is great here, we actually are in the business of helping people put their life first.&#0160; Not their career, not a degree, but their life.&#0160; A life that includes career, education and more.<\/p>\n<p>So the blue sky experience requires you to put your life first.&#0160; It requires you to understand that you only have so many times to see it feel it, embrace it.&#0160; It requires you to understand that the blue sky experience was given to you as a gift of sorts.&#0160; A wonderful gift.<\/p>\n<p>I am an experiential writer and guide, so you need to know that I&#39;m not just poking around here.&#0160; The picture in this post was taken in a moment today.&#0160; A moment I almost passed up because I thought I had so much work to finish, and I did.&#0160; But I turned around.&#0160; About an hour after I took the shot, I had to remind my mom that&#0160;theattorney needed my dad&#39;s death certificate to finish her estate plans.&#0160; Admittedly, my blues increased substantially.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your blue skies when you see them.&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160; How do you define a blue sky experience? Is it some place over yonder? Is it a person? I see it as a moment. Just one moment. Even in a business like mine where you work hard to get people engaged, I always take a step back and consider those who claim they have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,123,6],"tags":[22,23,1322,39,87,1321,9,269,42],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-leadership-development","category-learning","tag-business","tag-career","tag-employee-engagement","tag-life","tag-life-coaching","tag-life-balance","tag-money","tag-professional-development","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}