{"id":885,"date":"2006-08-04T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T15:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/success_drying_\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T15:39:20","slug":"success_drying_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/success_drying_\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Drying Up Brilliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your success (you define it) drying up your brilliance?&nbsp; Have you had a near loss experience, so that you realize that brilliance is a gift (just look up at the sun).&nbsp; When we&#8217;re poor and struggling we can feel all of our efforts and failures.&nbsp; They make us more appreciative and connect us to things that were with us before we were born.&nbsp; Then comes success and we lapse into forgetfulness.&nbsp; As it has been said before we forget from whence we came.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Peter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\/entries.php?note=009108.php\">blog entry<\/a> is rather telling about the affect of success on a culture (as it relates to health care).&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t talk about it from my angle, but the message is the same.&nbsp; When people, or a country, become successful they can become lazy and dry.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>We should always be pushing the envelope with our growth, be it physical, mental or spiritual.&nbsp; Pushing forward&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Funny how success can be our enemy or our friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your success (you define it) drying up your brilliance?&nbsp; Have you had a near loss experience, so that you realize that brilliance is a gift (just look up at the sun).&nbsp; When we&#8217;re poor and struggling we can feel all of our efforts and failures.&nbsp; They make us more appreciative and connect us to&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-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}