{"id":350,"date":"2011-03-17T22:50:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/managing-your-life-can-lead-to-unexpected-breakthroughs\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T22:50:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:50:54","slug":"managing-your-life-can-lead-to-unexpected-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/managing-your-life-can-lead-to-unexpected-breakthroughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Your Life Can Lead To Unexpected Breakthroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"March<\/a> <\/p>\n

In our lives it can be easy to have unrealistic expectations for results.  Especially, if we're coming out of something we hated or something that was a bad habit.  I know this from my own experiences.<\/p>\n

Think of the negotiations you have with yourself.  For example, "I need to get to work, so the workout will have to wait today.  Besides, I'm under a lot of pressure to hit my numbers this quarter."  If you repeat this scenrio often enough you can convince yourself that tomorrow never comes.  I did.  It has taken me a long time to respect my life as the most important thing.  When you do this you realize that all facets of your life warrant your attention and care.<\/p>\n

The point of my post today is what happened to me on an impromptu day-trip with my wife.  We decided to have lunch at a great inn<\/a> and go hiking afterwards.  The weather was great, as evidenced by the picture in my post, and we were expecting a wonderful time together.<\/p>\n

The owner of the inn, Ellen, who we've know for some time, visited with us.  I had a chance to tell her about our new experience, Take Time for Your Life<\/a>.  We connected immediately, my wife said some wonderful things about me and I'm confident we'll be able to help Ellen and her followers in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n

My wife and I proceeded to take our hike after lunch and talked.  Some about the beauty of the surroundings, some about the business opportunity with Ellen and some laughter.  The hike got our heart rates up and we enjoyed each other's company.<\/p>\n

So what does this have to do with managing your life?<\/p>\n

The wheel of life below illustrates 8 areas of life.  Which of them did I manage today?<\/p>\n

\"Wheel<\/a> <\/p>\n

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  In our lives it can be easy to have unrealistic expectations for results.  Especially, if we're coming out of something we hated or something that was a bad habit.  I know this from my own experiences. Think of the negotiations you have with yourself.  For example, "I need to get to work, so the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,123],"tags":[22,1340,1114,336,87,468,723,1338,1339,119],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-leadership-development","tag-business","tag-inn-at-cedar-falls","tag-inns","tag-leadership","tag-life-coaching","tag-life-management","tag-lifestyles","tag-managament","tag-nature","tag-self-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}