How To Set Up Your Life For Success
Today’s Making Waves is a little longer deep dive into achieving success in your life.
We’ve been duped!
Bear down and work harder, we were told. Do what it takes and work longer, they said. Make your business or career the centre of your world as that’s the path to success.
THEN, and only then, you can have a life… reclaim your health, have a social life, get married, have kids, travel, enjoy life… BE HAPPY! (Not necessarily all of those or in that order but you get the gist of it)
Nothing wrong with making money, even lots of it, because there is so much good we can do with more money, but not at the expense of all else.
Because that one day just might never come.
Human tendency, our societies focus, and a large number of influencers push us to never be content and always strive for more… more money, a next growth step, another employee, another office, another city…
So that whenever you DO reach some metric of success, it gets pushed out a little further. The carrot always dangles just beyond your reach.
Having a life never seems to arrive.
You keep repeating that history until it becomes habit, then unconscious, then just the normal existence of what is. Even when financial success comes you’re stuck.
The waves of overwhelm, stress, and burnout are prominently there, crashing all around you. You've come to believe this existence is simply the price you have to pay for success.
It isn’t.
This is destination thinking!
Then, when you finally take a step in having a life, and swing the pendulum to the other side… the influencers take over once again to remind you of what you are losing… money, status, and so on. So, in fear, you swing back again. It’s a never ending game of extremes that lacks balance and lacks freedom.
That old, out-dated traditional business success model needs a significant change. To experience real success and fully live a life you love is to embrace a new model that I call…