{"id":721,"date":"2007-10-16T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/nothing-venture\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T06:30:00","slug":"nothing-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/nothing-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Ventured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&quot;To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.&quot;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The above quote is attributed to Oscar Wilde.&nbsp; I pulled it from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\/entries.php?note=010004.php\">post<\/a> from Tom Peters titled; <em>Against All Odds: So What?&nbsp; <\/em>The entire post is good&#8230;full of things to consider.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been looking at my own journey these last couple of weeks, I can&#8217;t help but think of what makes what I do worth it.&nbsp; This is something you should evaluate for yourself as well.&nbsp; Is what you do full of risk and seemingly insurmountable odds?&nbsp; Tough sometimes to say and live, but those are the circumstances of real living.&nbsp; Our soft culture denies this by the way.<\/p>\n<p>What are the odds your facing?&nbsp; Consider the following as you evaluate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re being sold on something being easy, watch out!&nbsp; It (nearly) always leaves you dissatisfied. <\/li>\n<li>Watch your time because you don&#8217;t have as much as you think. <\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re facing an against all odds situation, then evaluate how you got there.&nbsp; Was it because you cheated or cut corners?&nbsp; Was it because you began with an honorable pursuit?&nbsp; The answers to those questions will reveal a lot. <\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re not going to break through with skill alone.&nbsp; Destiny will play a part in the outcome. <\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t give up when the water is up to your neck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.&quot; The above quote is attributed to Oscar Wilde.&nbsp; I pulled it from a post from Tom Peters titled; Against All Odds: So What?&nbsp; The entire post is good&#8230;full of things to consider. As I&#8217;ve been looking at my own journey&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}