{"id":563,"date":"2008-06-20T08:03:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T08:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/what-making-a-wish-can-teach-you-about-living\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T08:03:36","slug":"what-making-a-wish-can-teach-you-about-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/what-making-a-wish-can-teach-you-about-living\/","title":{"rendered":"What Making a Wish Can Teach You About Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I visited a local chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wish.org\" target=\"_blank\">Make a Wish Foundation<\/a> yesterday.&#0160; One of my consulting clients had business to do there.&#0160; This was my first time experiencing this organization, outside of what I&#39;ve read.&#0160; Someone should have prepared me.<\/p>\n<p>As I walked in I saw portraits (photographic) of various kids.&#0160; They all looked like what you&#39;d expect from kids in their prime.&#0160; I looked and couldn&#39;t stop looking.&#0160; Not because of&#0160;weird curiosity, but because I heard this symphony in my head.&#0160; It was life playing beautifully.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>I know that everything is not ok with&#0160;kids who are helped by Make a Wish.&#0160; I know, in many cases, their living out a song of goodbye.&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, after some time behind me, I was able to reflect on the power of my time with Make a Wish.&#0160; I cried.&#0160; The symphony returned again.<\/p>\n<p>My lessons were simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life is lived now and not later.&#0160; You don&#39;t have later, you have now.<\/li>\n<li>Be sensitive to the emotions seeking to come out.&#0160;Have a cry over what breaks your heart.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#39;t miss the symphony playing all around you.&#0160; <\/li>\n<li>Be very concerned about things or people that cause you to miss the moments.<\/li>\n<li>Every organization (profit or non-profit) needs a great mission, not a mission statement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited a local chapter of the Make a Wish Foundation yesterday.&#0160; One of my consulting clients had business to do there.&#0160; This was my first time experiencing this organization, outside of what I&#39;ve read.&#0160; Someone should have prepared me. As I walked in I saw portraits (photographic) of various kids.&#0160; They all looked like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-life-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}