{"id":784,"date":"2007-05-25T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_art_of_your\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T09:29:07","slug":"the_art_of_your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_art_of_your\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Your Personal Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you audit yourself?&nbsp; Most of us are afraid to do personal self-audits.&nbsp; The idea of finding something we don&#8217;t like inside scares us.&nbsp; Ironically, finding those things that scare us and doing something about them could be the source of our greatest breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanderssays.typepad.com\/sanders_says\/\">Tim Sanders<\/a> has a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/sanderssays.typepad.com\/sanders_says\/2007\/05\/audit_yourself_.html\">post<\/a> titled; &quot;Audit yourself: Last Friday&#8217;s sent emails.&quot;&nbsp; He focuses on how we communicate through email, but it made me think of what holds us back from becoming what we dream of becoming.<\/p>\n<p>I know some might think their &quot;fine&quot; or &quot;OK.&quot;&nbsp; But in a culture where self-deception can be an art form, I would caution you from taking that approach.&nbsp; Here are a five things to ponder regarding self-audits (as I call them):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Life is brief and your legacy is unfolding right before your eyes&#8230;even if you&#8217;re not looking. <\/li>\n<li>Your sphere (family, friends, colleagues, etc.) are impacted by what you become. <\/li>\n<li>The world is a little better or a little worse by the decisions you make. <\/li>\n<li>Not doing &quot;self-audits&quot; will lead to some level of bankruptcy (moral or otherwise). <\/li>\n<li>Confront your defects and destiny will smile on you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you audit yourself?&nbsp; Most of us are afraid to do personal self-audits.&nbsp; The idea of finding something we don&#8217;t like inside scares us.&nbsp; Ironically, finding those things that scare us and doing something about them could be the source of our greatest breakthroughs. Tim Sanders has a wonderful post titled; &quot;Audit yourself: Last Friday&#8217;s&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-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}