{"id":990,"date":"2005-10-25T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/knowing_when_yo\/"},"modified":"2005-10-25T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T09:34:00","slug":"knowing_when_yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/knowing_when_yo\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing When You&#8217;re Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think of the roles you play and ask yourself the following question:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Do I feel alive doing\/living this?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If the answer doesn&#8217;t come immediately, you&#8217;re probably not fully engaged, not fully alive, or dead.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t panic!&nbsp; Check your breath in the mirror, if it fogs up, there&#8217;s still a chance.&nbsp; Wake up!&nbsp; There will be a point in your life where you will fail the mirror test, until then wake up!<\/p>\n<p>The critics (remember nobody remembers the critics) will say that what I&#8217;m advocating is not realistic.&nbsp; Forget them!&nbsp; What&#8217;s more realistic than living out who you were made to be?&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been duped into believing that its crazy to be who we truly are.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You might be surprised at how many famous, rich, beautiful and smart people are not living out this reality.&nbsp; They have resources, but are bankrupt inside.&nbsp; The corporations and well-intentioned advice givers have tried to choke out our destiny, but that voice will never be silenced.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t allow your dreams to be the inheritance of the grave. <\/p>\n<p>While you have time (nobody knows how much), be willing to fail at the pursuit of your dreams, rather than the successful compromise of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of the roles you play and ask yourself the following question: &quot;Do I feel alive doing\/living this?&quot; If the answer doesn&#8217;t come immediately, you&#8217;re probably not fully engaged, not fully alive, or dead.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t panic!&nbsp; Check your breath in the mirror, if it fogs up, there&#8217;s still a chance.&nbsp; Wake up!&nbsp; There will be&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-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}