{"id":840,"date":"2007-01-22T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_opposition\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T16:47:00","slug":"the_opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you choose to pursue your purpose and destiny what are the chances you will be opposed?&nbsp; My experience says the chances are great.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; I think mostly because purpose and destiny leads back to God&#8230;our origins and such.&nbsp; It makes us uncomfortable to think that there is this great story wrapped up in our life.<\/p>\n<p>It is a great tragedy that the very opportunity for happiness in work and life is avoided by most.&nbsp; Opposition is a key reason.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You might be surprised by those that will rally forces to thwart you.&nbsp; Friends, family, career to name a few.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t offer any magic pills for dealing with opposition besides&#8230;DON&#8217;T GIVE UP!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When this ride around the Sun is over you won&#8217;t want regret defining you.&nbsp; It will be too late to do it over (sorry my Hindu friends).&nbsp; The following are some links to help you on your journey:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Success-Built-Last-Creating-Matters\/dp\/013228751X\/sr=1-1\/qid=1169500051\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/102-7853624-4708150?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">Success Built To Last<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/juggle\/2007\/01\/22\/bad-at-staying-home\/\">The Juggle<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fastcompany.com\/experts\/jbaldoni\/\">Fast Company\/John Baldoni<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you choose to pursue your purpose and destiny what are the chances you will be opposed?&nbsp; My experience says the chances are great.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; I think mostly because purpose and destiny leads back to God&#8230;our origins and such.&nbsp; It makes us uncomfortable to think that there is this great story wrapped up in our&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-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}