'Because I see, at the end of my rough path, that I was the architect of my own destiny' Amado Nervo
We all want to succeed. We all want to be happy and live a full life in perfect balance. However, for the vast majority of us this balance seems to be something impossible to achieve. It seems like we can't balance our family life with our career goals, or our financial ambitions with our spiritual goals. Sometimes we would think that neither our diet, nor our relationships, nor our bank account can be balanced. So we have come to accept that perhaps this balance is impossible to achieve. We hide behind the old paradigm that warns us that "Nothing is complete in life", that all triumph in any area of our life will surely be accompanied by a great sacrifice in another, since it is impossible to have everything you want.
My response to this pessimistic life proposal is the same that Abraham Lincoln gave when he warned that everyone is as happy as he proposes to be. Each and every one of us has more control over our life than we think we have. It is possible to become the kind of whole being who experiences a life of wholeness and harmony.
This is not only possible, but it is the life to which we are all entitled. We can all design a life of harmony between the different facets of our being and thus become the whole beings that Deepak Chopra, the Dalai Lama and Stephen Covey talk about. The question is how to achieve it? And the answer is just as simple. The first step is to accept 100% responsibility for our success. It's easy to rationalize our mediocrity and find fault with our failures if we have accepted in advance that the responsibility for our personal success and happiness is not entirely ours. The poet Amado Nervo said well, because I see, at the end of my rough path, that I was the architect of my own destiny.
The second step is to make sure that in our process of setting short- and long-term goals, we keep in mind not to neglect any of the many facets of our lives. Professional success, for example, is of little value if we obtain it at the cost of our health, or if it creates a distance between us and our loved ones. When we set out to set goals and develop our action plan, we must set professional and family goals, goals for our intellectual and spiritual growth, goals that respond to our needs for recreation and fun, goals that help us improve and maintain good health, and good physical condition, and financial goals.
Imagínate por un momento que tu mente es como una gran empresa, una planta generadora de ideas, sueños y metas. Una de tus responsabilidades más importantes en esta empresa es elaborar tu plan de vida, y para ello cuentas con la ayuda de tu junta directiva. Esta junta directiva está compuesta por tu ser profesional, tu ser intelectual, tu ser espiritual, tu ser familiar, tu ser salud y estado físico, tu ser recreativo y tu ser financiero.
Your job is to listen to each of the members of your board of directors, discover what their most ambitious goals are, and listen carefully to their complaints, so that when developing your personal success plan, all facets of your "being" are seen. represented. If you do not listen to the wishes and concerns of each of them, it is possible that your plan does not respond to the multiple interests of your being. This will result in a life out of balance, chaotic and marked by continuous internal conflicts between the different facets of your life.
However, if you develop a success plan taking into account the multiple needs of your being, that is, listening to each of the members of your board of directors, there will be harmony in your life, and you will see how it is possible to achieve that these individualities cooperate and work together providing you with the tools, energy and vision to allow you to live a full and happy life.
You will see how it is possible to succeed professionally without having to sacrifice the relationship with your wife or your children. You will be able to eradicate from your life that old belief that had conditioned you to accept that if you wanted to succeed, you had to work hard, forgetting your recreation and even your health. You will discover that contrary to what many think, it is possible to maintain a balance between the material and the spiritual. So ignore those who profess that "it is impossible to do everything." Achieving a balanced life is not only possible, but it must be the most important goal of every person who truly wants to be happy.
There is a way to start your action plan so that all of this crystallizes in your life. Read the book Seven steps to make your dreams come true and you will see how, each day you will have advanced until you reach the balance in your integral being. Start your personal growth now and don't wait any longer.
