{"id":731,"date":"2007-10-01T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T11:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/waiting-for-dea\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T11:16:25","slug":"waiting-for-dea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/waiting-for-dea\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you waiting for death to begin to live.&nbsp; There are many stories out there on people who&#8217;ve been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and then saw the wisdom of living full.&nbsp; Any awakening is a good one, but why should you wait?<\/p>\n<p>The following outlines what is essential in combating inaction before eternity calls:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Are you thinking you should should start that business?&nbsp; Then write it down, get some insight and begin.<\/li>\n<li>Is having fun important?&nbsp; Then start, resume or increase what is fun.<\/li>\n<li>Should you start taking better care of your body?&nbsp; Then start exercising, eating healthy, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Have you forgotten to tell somebody what they mean to you?&nbsp; Then pick up the phone, send the email or go visit them.<\/li>\n<li>Are you thinking you&#8217;ve got time?&nbsp; Then stop, because no one has as much time as they think they do.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This article in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119101113213643010.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> (subscription required for the entire article) is a tragic example of why now is the time to live.&nbsp; The young girl&#8217;s perspective is understandable&#8230;she was a child.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re an adult you have no excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you waiting for death to begin to live.&nbsp; There are many stories out there on people who&#8217;ve been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and then saw the wisdom of living full.&nbsp; Any awakening is a good one, but why should you wait? The following outlines what is essential in combating inaction before eternity calls:&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}