What is success if you don’t have anyone to celebrate it with?
Family and Relationships are the most critical elements to have a balanced life since the primary emotion of Happiness and Joy is fulfilled by simply sharing your success with all those you love. The process has to be reciprocative. To receive Love one must love first unconditionally.
Family (Relationship) - (Representing Element - “Fire”)
There are several books and literature available that can be used to strengthen this area of your life.
Here are some tips,
Before you look into your relationship with other, just spend next ten minutes to summarise your relationship with YOURSELF.
A good Tip by Success Guru Anthony Robbins: “What makes relationship works are the things in common between each other (certainty), but what makes the relationship passionate is the differences (uncertainty).
Find out different ways of giving pleasure to them.
When it comes to the relationship management, listen to your heart and not mind. Whenever you are taking more than 5 seconds to take any relationship related decision, it means you are thinking and using your brain. STOP … what was your first reaction, what came to your mind first? Your first reaction is actually coming from your heart.
A great assessment tool provided by Success Guru Anthony Robbins is, finding whether you meet the Six Basic Human Needs of them?
Certainty - How much certainty you give them?
Uncertainty - How much uncertainty / variety you give them?
Significance - Do you make them feel significant?
Connection / Love - How much do you think, they feel loved?
Growth - How much growth you stimulate in your relationship?
Contribution - How much do you contribute to them that they can appreciate?
A great recommended program is Love & Passion by Anthony Robbins. It is really an eye opener and very practical program.
Today I am going to talk a little more on the Energy / Health / Fitness aspect of the life.
Energy - (Representing Element - “Earth”)
You must be wondering why am I talking about Energy / Health / Fitness first?
Well I personally agree with most of the Success Gurus in this area, for achieving and sustaining success in any Other Area of your life, you must be in a Good Physical Condition, Fit and must have Lots of Energy. If your goal is to make Million(s) of Dollars then one of your goals must be to live at least 80 to 90 if not 100 years in a totally healthy condition to enjoy your success. Isn’t that true?
However it is essential to have Emotional Fitness to have Physical Fitness. What do I mean by that? Well your Physical Fitness is a direct reflection of how you think about yourself, what your thoughts and your emotions are?
Listen to what Dr. Deepak Chopra says about it, “Our body is a Printout of our consistent Thoughts”. He is so right about that, and he further ads to the most important things that we must look at to have a good overall health, and those are to be aware of and control,
How you Behave?
How you Think?
How and What you Eat?
The simple best formula that Dr. Deepak Chopra reveals is that “Keep constantly looking at two signals your body gives you, Signal of Comfort and Signal of Discomfort. Keep amplifying the signal of Comfort and get away from the signal of Discomfort”.
We often neglect the signals coming from our body. It is surely essential to listen to what our body says and just react based on that.
Dr. Deepak Chopra further explains in details about the different body types such as “Vata”, “Pitta” and “Kapha” and how the balance can be created within this body types.
Dr. Deepak Chopra is truly phenomenal in the Health and the Longevity aspects of the life.
Here are some practical tips from the best Guru, My Mentor, Anthony Robbins on the Health and the Fitness.
Go Green. Yes, eat as much green vegetables as possible.
Make 70% of your diet Alkaline.
Limit your intake of Acid forming foods.
Remember Sugar = Acid and Acid = Aging. Hence if you are acidic you are ageing.
Maintain the ideal pH value for your body. Blood has to be slightly alkaline (Ideal pH = 7.36)
There are lots of books and programs available out there in the market. Few of them that I cam across were either more academic or too technical for the non-medical background person like me. I personally liked the programs by Dr. Deepak Chopra and Anthony Robbins. Eye opening for me and gave me lots of hands on tips for bringing a good physical balance in my life.
You must be wondering why am I calling my consolidation of the findings, “The Elements”? Well, let me give you a brief introduction to “The Elements”.
Lot of people have different views on “The Number of Basic Elements”, I am not going into that debate here. For our Balance Life, we target Six Key Areas and each of these Key Area represent One Element. I presumed following Six Elements, Substance (Akasha/K?), Air (Vayu/F?), Fire (Agni/ka/hu?), Water (Jala/sui/sh?i), Earth (Prithvi/chi/t?) and Consciousness(shiki).
And here is how I linked these “Element” to what is called as “Creating the Balance”by most of the Successful People.
Substance = Spiritual. Areas where we talk about Our Values & Commitments. Deciding what we Study & also understanding the Power of Meditation.
Air = Attitude and Emotions. Area of dwelling into our Mental Status. Deciding what we Read, Visualize, Plan, Write, gaining control on our emotions and understanding the value of Synergy.
Fire = Family. This is one of the most important area to address, “Our Relationships”. Providing the Service and being Empathetic.
Water = Wealth. Focusing on your Wealth and Financial Freedom.
Earth = Energy. We sure need Physical Energy and Fitness to enjoy everything in our life. Focus on Exercise, what we eat, The Food and the Nutritions, as well as the Stress Management.
Consciousness = Career. Understanding your True Gift. Doing what we LOVE and Not what we HAVE TO.
I will share more about each in the subsequent Posts. Keep reading.
It’s been long since I had my last Post.
Well I was kind of in the process of studying the success stories. I was reading a lot, listening a lot and researching a lot on several aspects. And in this process I came across with some interesting findings and some wonderful resources. I am consolidating what I could gather together, and I am going to share it all with you.
You know the best part of it, “It is really coming from all those best of the successful people around the world” and here is a good news “You don’t have to reinvent the wheel”.
I will be posting these findings under category, “The Elements” on my website. I am sure you will like it and find it very useful.
To start with, I highly recommend you to view this 22 minutes video by Anthony Robbins at least 4-5 times, I really mean 4-5 times. Every time you view this, it will help you reveal more and more. Tony is awesome, and listen to his message about being “Resources-full” rather than limiting yourself for not having the resources at the same time understand how the different “Needs” drives us.
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." -- James Allen
