{"id":945,"date":"2006-02-13T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/does_he_mean_it\/"},"modified":"2006-02-13T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T07:12:00","slug":"does_he_mean_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/does_he_mean_it\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life of Imitation-Updated 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#0160;wonder about the identities of high-level executives in today&#39;s corporate world.&#0160; To be fair, I wonder about your identity.&#0160; This is not meant to judge you, but to express my concern.&#0160; Sorta like, if you knew I was planning on driving drunk, you&#39;d tell me to hand over the keys.&#0160; Identity isn&#39;t always that straight forward, but&#0160;it is as important.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe&#0160;like the CEO, you&#39;re someone&#0160;who became what the organization demanded or seduced you with.&#0160; What about that burning desire to perform?&#0160; Regardless, somewhere along the line,&#0160;a career of imitation began.&#0160; Now before you say that I&#39;m picking on executives or corporate types here, these&#0160;statements are for all of us.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>Are you who you really are, or are you an imitation?&#0160; What does the face-behind-the-face look like?&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>Being authentic requires a willingness to be real.&#0160; It requires the courage to say, &quot;I don&#39;t believe in this crap.&quot;&#0160; Pardon my frankness, but maybe that&#39;s where authenticity begins.&#0160; Saying what we really feel.&#0160; I&#39;m not recommending that you just blurt something out just because you &quot;feel it.&quot;&#0160; I am recommending that you be honest with yourself by admitting and doing something about it.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>So what gives with the imitating?&#0160; Find the vision and you&#39;ll realize that you don&#39;t have time to be anyone other than who you are.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p><strong>In the end, the only people who matter are those who dig the authentic you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#0160;wonder about the identities of high-level executives in today&#39;s corporate world.&#0160; To be fair, I wonder about your identity.&#0160; This is not meant to judge you, but to express my concern.&#0160; Sorta like, if you knew I was planning on driving drunk, you&#39;d tell me to hand over the keys.&#0160; Identity isn&#39;t always that straight&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":[22,23,133,582,113,177,119],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-career","tag-growth","tag-leadership-development-2","tag-learning-2","tag-management-2","tag-self-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}