{"id":494,"date":"2008-11-22T05:42:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-two-paths-to-great-leadership\/"},"modified":"2008-11-22T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T05:42:12","slug":"the-two-paths-to-great-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-two-paths-to-great-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Paths to Great Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> <\/a>\"Two<\/a> <\/a>    <\/a>  <\/a>  <\/a>   <\/p>\n

Had a great conversation with Marc<\/a> yesterday.  We spoke a lot about future plans with our two companies, but it was his brief statement below that made me pause:<\/p>\n

    "You have two paths you can go on in this environment.  One says this sucks, and the other says I see an opportunity."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Those words cconfirmed mmuch in my heart.  <\/p>\n

Even when things have been bad, I have gravitated toward optimism.  No applause needed here.  Many (family, friends, and associates) have come to count on me for looking up.  This hasn't always been easy.<\/p>\n

Even in the times where I wondered if Epic Living would make it, I wrote from the perspective of optimism.  Why?  You don't need another source\/media that communicates how bad things are-in my life or the world as a whole.  Believe me, this is not lofty fee-good babble.  It hurts me when people fall into the quick sandd of pessimism.<\/p>\n

I know that many are experiencing difficult times right now.  But could these hard times be the preparation ground for your greatest opportunity?  I fear that many could miss it because of that quick sand I mentioned.  Pure gold can't come about without some intense heat.<\/p>\n

The real battle is in our heads.<\/p>\n

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             Had a great conversation with Marc yesterday.  We spoke a lot about future plans with our two companies, but it was his brief statement below that made me pause:     "You have two paths you can go on in this environment.  One says this sucks, and the other says I see an opportunity." Those words cconfirmed…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-leadership-development","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}