{"id":586,"date":"2008-05-21T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/advice-on-life-from-ted-kennedy\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:06:56","slug":"advice-on-life-from-ted-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/advice-on-life-from-ted-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice on Life from Ted Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef00e5526a4aeb8834-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=404,height=272,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"DISPLAY: block\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kennedy\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef00e5526a4aeb8834 \" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef00e5526a4aeb8834-800pi\" title=\"Kennedy\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=527730\" target=\"_blank\">Ted&#0160;Kennedy<\/a> has some advice for us today; <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicsonglyrics.com\/L\/level42lyrics\/level42forevernowlyrics.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Forever Now<\/a><\/em><\/strong>!&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>By now, you may know that Senator Kennedy has been diagonsed with brain cancer.&#0160; My prayers go out to him and his family as he will certainly face a tremendous challenge battling the disease.&#0160; The cold reality of Senator Kennedy&#39;s situation reminded me of the fact that we&#39;re all terminal.&#0160; He, however, has the advantage\/disadvantage of knowing.<\/p>\n<p>People who don&#39;t know (maybe you and I) can easily put the thought out of our minds.&#0160; We figure that our end is an eternity away.&#0160; That is a very dangerous mind-set!&#0160; It&#39;s not just dangerous because one-out-of-one person dies, but&#0160;because it produces the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A delay in saying the &quot;I Love Yous.&quot;\n<li>Settling for the average.\n<li>Substituting the intangibles with the tangibles.\n<li>Finding self-worth in the minds of other people.\n<li>A disinterest in Destiny. <\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So if you&#39;re in a career or a life designed by the &quot;you need to\/ought to&quot; group, get out now!&#0160; Senator Kennedy would advise you to live &quot;forever now.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted&#0160;Kennedy has some advice for us today; Forever Now!&#0160; By now, you may know that Senator Kennedy has been diagonsed with brain cancer.&#0160; My prayers go out to him and his family as he will certainly face a tremendous challenge battling the disease.&#0160; The cold reality of Senator Kennedy&#39;s situation reminded me of the fact&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,6,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-development","category-learning","category-life-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}