{"id":877,"date":"2006-09-18T19:59:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T19:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/success\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T19:59:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T19:59:53","slug":"success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/success\/","title":{"rendered":"Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this piece in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal (<a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/epic_living\/files\/wsj091806.pdf\">wsj091806.pdf<\/a>) and it registered with me.&nbsp; It spoke volumes about how long it can take to truly define success.&nbsp; Each of us must figure that one out, but the article gives you much to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes its easy to just get caught up in what is expected.&nbsp; For example, my dad worked a job for thirty-five years, so I know that&#8217;s the right thing to do.&nbsp; Funny how often we never ask is that what we want to do.&nbsp; History is full of those who put their &quot;chips&quot; on making money and retiring in leisure.&nbsp; Truth be told we want more&#8230;at least those of us who are awake.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m north of forty now and my definition of success is clear.&nbsp; Sometimes I feel like it has taken more time than it should have, but my story&#8217;s on track.&nbsp; I have no regrets&#8230;forever now.<\/p>\n<p>You might not be even close to forty, but time is strange.&nbsp; None us know how much time we have.&nbsp; That implies an urgency to get on with what matters.&nbsp; So, what matters to you&#8230;the real you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this piece in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal (wsj091806.pdf) and it registered with me.&nbsp; It spoke volumes about how long it can take to truly define success.&nbsp; Each of us must figure that one out, but the article gives you much to think about. Sometimes its easy to just get caught up in what&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-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}