{"id":736,"date":"2007-09-19T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/job-or-family\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T20:25:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T20:25:59","slug":"job-or-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/job-or-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Job or Family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/juggle\/2007\/09\/19\/book-club-do-you-judge-your-friends-choices\/\">The Juggle<\/a> explores the issue of career vs. family.&nbsp; Some might not relate to this because they&#8217;ve made peace with the argument.&nbsp; This group is small though, so I anticipate my comments will be of value to you.&nbsp; The fight is always about being loyal to our priorities.&nbsp; Priorities are the things that shade these conversations.<\/p>\n<p>The big question is whether you&#8217;ve actually defined your priorities.&nbsp; Have you?&nbsp; Are you willing to exercise the discipline to live them out in the order you placed them?&nbsp; Don&#8217;t feel bad if you&#8217;ve failed at it&#8230;we all have.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some advice on getting your priorities in sync:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set your priorities. <\/li>\n<li>Live your priorities. <\/li>\n<li>Prepare to be tempted to compromise your priorities. <\/li>\n<li>Prepare for the lonely road that having priorities will create.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Most people haven&#8217;t a clue about what&#8217;s number one, number two, etc., so don&#8217;t expect a large crowd applauding. <\/li>\n<li>Practice the art of connecting the dots.&nbsp; This art is live out through seeing how being true to your values produces great results over time.&nbsp; Life is like Hebrew&#8230;you need to read it backwards to understand it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post from The Juggle explores the issue of career vs. family.&nbsp; Some might not relate to this because they&#8217;ve made peace with the argument.&nbsp; This group is small though, so I anticipate my comments will be of value to you.&nbsp; The fight is always about being loyal to our priorities.&nbsp; Priorities are the things&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-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}