{"id":511,"date":"2008-10-16T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/in-a-speech-yesterday-i-told-a-group-of-businesswomen-that-youre-not-ready-to-live-until-youre-ready-to-die-easy-for-m\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T13:33:50","slug":"in-a-speech-yesterday-i-told-a-group-of-businesswomen-that-youre-not-ready-to-live-until-youre-ready-to-die-easy-for-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/in-a-speech-yesterday-i-told-a-group-of-businesswomen-that-youre-not-ready-to-live-until-youre-ready-to-die-easy-for-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Die, Ready to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9VUP8p7YAeM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9VUP8p7YAeM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In a speech yesterday I told a group of businesswomen that you&#39;re not ready to live until you&#39;re ready to die.&#0160; Easy for me to say, right?&#0160; Well&#8230;no.&#0160; Seal (see the clip above) has some poetic thoughts on the matter of dying.&#0160; But I don&#39;t want to stray to far from the meaning of this story.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#39;t until I got serious about the things I couldn&#39;t see (love of family and love of people), that I starting confronting the urgency of this limited time offer call life.&#0160; I apply the idea to work too.<\/p>\n<p>The businesswomen yesterday got my meaning.&#0160; Those truly passionate about what they do carry a sense of the ending.&#0160;&#0160;People like this&#0160;believe that the&#0160;story titled our life has a beginning, a middle, and an end.&#0160; It clarifies and refines how we approach everything.<\/p>\n<p>If we get <strong>close <\/strong>to this idea we might get the following:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No more playing around with destructive words and behaviors.<\/span>\n<li>No need for the next generation of DVD technology.\n<li>Dinner with the entire family every night.\n<li>No more preoccupation with fame and fortune.\n<li>Embracng the moment with all you connect with.\n<li>Taking care of our bodies like the gift they are.\n<li>Seeing people as more valuable than material goods.\n<li>Taking responsibility for our lives.<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech yesterday I told a group of businesswomen that you&#39;re not ready to live until you&#39;re ready to die.&#0160; Easy for me to say, right?&#0160; Well&#8230;no.&#0160; Seal (see the clip above) has some poetic thoughts on the matter of dying.&#0160; But I don&#39;t want to stray to far from the meaning of this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}