{"id":653,"date":"2008-02-14T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T11:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-dangers-of\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T11:41:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T11:41:43","slug":"the-dangers-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-dangers-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of What&#8217;s Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend told me this week that there is danger in what we see versus what we don&#8217;t see.&nbsp; Ten years ago I would have jumped out of my chair.&nbsp; My how ten years can change things.&nbsp; I believe firmly in the idea of the unseen.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are surrounded by opportunities, brilliantly masked as impossibilities.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;-Author Unknown<\/p>\n<p>If you want to grow your leadership, then you need to start dealing in the currency of the unseen.&nbsp; And yes, lot&#8217;s of what you encounter will look impossible.&nbsp; I think impossibilities are like a test to see if you&#8217;re really committed to what you do and say.<\/p>\n<p>As a leader beware of these &quot;seen&quot; situations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m close to retirement, so I&#8217;ll let someone younger tackle this. <\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t have the funds to invest in something so untested. <\/li>\n<li>No one from my family has ever done or even attempted this. <\/li>\n<li>The marketplace is too crowded, you&#8217;ll get lost in the mass. <\/li>\n<li>Following your vision is OK, but you&#8217;ve got a family to take care of. <\/li>\n<li>The last person who attempted that failed. <\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve set the bar so high, how do you intend to reach it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s a list of the unseen (names only)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nelson Mandela <\/li>\n<li>Thomas Edison <\/li>\n<li>Mother Theresa <\/li>\n<li>Bono <\/li>\n<li>Steve Jobs <\/li>\n<li>Saint Paul <\/li>\n<li>Martin Luther King, Jr. <\/li>\n<li>Oprah Winfrey <\/li>\n<li>Billy Graham <\/li>\n<li><strong><em><span style=\"color: #cc0033;\">YOUR NAME GOES HERE<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend told me this week that there is danger in what we see versus what we don&#8217;t see.&nbsp; Ten years ago I would have jumped out of my chair.&nbsp; My how ten years can change things.&nbsp; I believe firmly in the idea of the unseen. &quot;We are surrounded by opportunities, brilliantly masked as&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}