{"id":917,"date":"2006-05-05T13:22:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/an_ocean_or_a_l\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T13:22:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T13:22:04","slug":"an_ocean_or_a_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/an_ocean_or_a_l\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ocean or a Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your influence an ocean or a lake?&nbsp; Meaning, are you dynamic like the ocean vs. the calmness of a small or medium sized lake?<\/p>\n<p>Those who have ocean-like influence are truly inspiring.&nbsp; They are like that classic movie where you&#8217;re at the edge of your seat throughout.&nbsp; A movie where you think about the &quot;story&quot; well after the conclusion.&nbsp; You laugh, you cry, you root for the heroic actions.&nbsp; These are the people who change your life&#8230;one heartbeat at a time.&nbsp; The ocean-like leader helps you discover life as you most wanted.<\/p>\n<p>The lake-affect influencer leaves the followers bored, cynical and pessimistic.&nbsp; This type of leader is afraid most of the time, doesn&#8217;t know how he or she got there and is really not interested in their people at all.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t get me wrong, they appreciate their people when the camera is rolling or when their asked in a staff meeting.&nbsp; In many ways these folks are just &quot;there.&quot;&nbsp; Just there for the ride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Life is brief (as I know you know), so go find the ocean and experience all of dynamics you&#8217;ve dreamed of.&nbsp; You can&#8217;t afford to live in a lake&#8230;you awake one day to find you never really lived. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your influence an ocean or a lake?&nbsp; Meaning, are you dynamic like the ocean vs. the calmness of a small or medium sized lake? Those who have ocean-like influence are truly inspiring.&nbsp; They are like that classic movie where you&#8217;re at the edge of your seat throughout.&nbsp; A movie where you think about the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}