{"id":635,"date":"2008-03-14T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/trading-the-int\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T06:30:00","slug":"trading-the-int","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/trading-the-int\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading the Intangible for the Tangible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded a podcast with Anna Farmery of <a href=\"http:\/\/theengagingbrand.typepad.com\/\">The Engaging Brand<\/a> a couple of weeks ago.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll link to the podcast in the coming weeks.&nbsp; It was a great conversation and I understand why her blog is called engaging.&nbsp; She did a great job in allowing me to articulate my thoughts on having a great life as well as a great career.&nbsp; But it was her father&#8217;s advice that is still resonating with me.<\/p>\n<p>Anna told me that her father once advised that the intangible things of life can never be satisfied by the tangible.&nbsp; See Lennon and McCartney&#8217;s take (<em>Can&#8217;t Buy Me Love<\/em>).&nbsp; You might say &quot;of course, Eric.&quot;&nbsp; But why do so many people try to do what Anna&#8217;s wise father warned us not to?&nbsp; Don&#8217;t have enough space to address all of the reasons here.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The following outlines some reasons why we&#8217;ve taken the bait:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We deceive ourselves into believing that the temporary feelings we experience will last.&nbsp; You know what I mean; &quot;now that I am ____ life will start to go my way.&quot;&nbsp; Tangible things were never meant to last. <\/li>\n<li>The intangibles are hard, the tangibles are easy.&nbsp; Need I say more on this one? <\/li>\n<li>Our wonderful friends in the media keep telling us that intangibles are not important and tangibles are.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>We think more like consumers than we&#8217;re willing to admit. <\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t pay attention to history.&nbsp; History will tell you that Love matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am a man who attempted some of the above and I failed like many before me.&nbsp; My conversation\/podcast with Anna reminded me of how fortunate I am that I woke up.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to all of the mystery, tears, hope, disappointed, and Love the intangibles bring.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded a podcast with Anna Farmery of The Engaging Brand a couple of weeks ago.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll link to the podcast in the coming weeks.&nbsp; It was a great conversation and I understand why her blog is called engaging.&nbsp; She did a great job in allowing me to articulate my thoughts on having a great&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-perspectives","category-news-and-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}