Surprising lessons from 6000 years of corporate research on what separates winners from losers in turbulent times. And the best part you can apply these to your own life.
It is said that having a belief-system is good: it is something which directs you; guides your actions; motivates you to feel you know how to move forward with life. Whether you believe in charity, in the importance of being a good parent, in being there 100% for your partner – your belief system makes you “the person that you are” and enables you to be consistent and predictable over the years.
What a privilege it is to make the necessary choices that will create the outcomes you desire. Your humanity, with its free will and ability to think and choose, presupposes that whatever you become and whatever you do with your life must be and will be by your personal choices. The actualization of your potential will not happen by itself without deliberate action on your part. You get to choose your life! Your potential which defines your purpose in life is meant to add value to you first of all and then expand that value to the rest of your world from there.
The materialistic world is getting more and more self-centered by every passing day. That is ultimately leading the inhabitants of the earth to petty fights and divisions among themselves thus destroying the world peace. Hence, there is a strong need to get rid of this ’self-centeredness’.
As we begin life we are faced with challenges that are some of the hardest things we must endure. When we are born we cannot even hold our heads up from lack of neck muscles. After a few months we master this ability.
Are our lives really set in stone? Are we destined to be a certain way as adults? Are we allowed to choose a different path as we move through life?
There are no keys to success. There are no locks to success that need to be opened. There are INGREDIENTS that need to be blended and a recipe to follow to create a successful life. As in cooking everyone will always add that little something of their own to the recipe to make it special and successful. Success really has an open door policy and it’s up to us just to walk on in and get what we dreamed of.
The search for knowledge and self-improvement drives many people in the path of personal growth. Knowledge and information are not the same although our educated minds have confused the two and made them one from the intellectual point of view. Information is like any other item, it can be collected and accumulated. To do this, it takes time, effort and money and then a place to store all that is collected. Then it is useless and the effort in its accumulation wasted if it is not shown off. So not only is time spent in its accumulation but also in its presentation and sharing.
Dr. David Hawkins, a researcher out of Sedona, AZ and the author of numerous books on consciousness has found that thanksgiving and gratitude are very high-energy, high-vibration states. So, with the Thanksgiving holiday happening this month in the US, I of course decided to put myself in a high-energy state and write about gratitude and how it shows up in my life and those around me. I started my research with my five year-old son, Nathan, one of the highest energetic souls I know.
Pierre-Jules Renard, a 19th century French author, once said, We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. There may be some real truth to this. By the time you reach middle age, you know what you don’t know and you know there is no shame in admitting it.
