What Is True Success? How Can I Get It?
What is True Success, and how can YOU Achieve it
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Hi there, My name is Rich Railtion, Author of Joining Forces: 5 Steps to Strengthening your relationships whilst pursuing your dreams.
Today we are going to take a look at what True Success really means and how you can achieve this for your life.
Many people spend too much time focusing on one thing, such as getting rich or being the best at their job. While these people can be very successful in this one area, they may be neglecting other areas. To us, True Success is about more than just having a bank full of money, a nice car and a big house. To be truly successful, we believe, that it is important to have all your life in balance.
What is a Balanced Life?
What do we mean by having your life in balance and why is that so important?
When you look at a persons life you can see that there are many, many areas, too many for us to really examine. Therefore, we have grouped them together into six main areas. We believe that to be truly happy and successful you should try to achieve balance in:
Your Body
Your Mind
Your Family
Your Finances
The Society around you
& Your Spirit
As you can see from this list, Finances or Money is just one of the areas in which you need to be successful. Many people will put 100% of their effort in to this small part and 0% or very little in everywhere else. While these people may end up very wealthy, they will find that they soon tire of the money and that they are missing so much in the other areas. Very often these people will be very unhappy and even depressed, which can be hard to understand when we see them with all their money and nice things, but deep down they know they are missing out.
The same can be said about any other the other areas we have listed. If you focus your time and effort into one or two areas, it will have a detrimental effect on the other areas.
Also if you are really struggling in one area it can affect all the other areas too!
What happens to 1 affects another
It is not only important to have our lives in balance for our own sense of well being, but also because each area can affect another. If, for example, you have a low income, you may not be able to socialise as much as you would like to with family and friends. You may be more stressed, which means that maybe you turn to ice cream and chocolate, which will affect your health ,then you may not want to have anything to do with anyone else, you may even go as far as to blame God for everything.
Very quickly a low in one area can affect all the other areas. That is why we believe that it is so important to work on every area of life.
Where do I start?
It is now time to see how in balance your lives are. We have designed a checklist to help to identify areas to work on. This could be scary! I know the first time I tried this I was so shocked at how wobbly my lifes wheel was looking!!
Go to http://www.richrailton.info/files/balance-checklist.pdf to get your own copy of the balance checklist
Please take the time to answer all the questions on The Balance Checklist truthfully.
Do this now, before you continue
Is it a smooth ride?
How did you get on with the checklist? Was it a bit of a shock or is your life looking pretty good right now? Once you have filled in the checklist and coloured in the wheel, I want you to imagine how it would be if your wheel were attached to car or bicycle. How comfortable would your journey be? Your life may be perfect, but I am willing to bet there are definitely some areas that could use a little work.
What can I do now?
Something that we like to recommend that people do to get themselves started on their journey, is to take some time right now to sit down and look at your wheel.
Spend some time thinking about why one area may be lower than another. Think about what you could start doing in order to make things better in this area, and then set yourself some small goals (or big goals if you need them) to get your started.
If you could use a little help setting those goals and making plans for your life of True Success then why not follow this link and have a look at our short series on personal development and goal setting.
http://richrailton.info/category/personal-development/
We recommend that in a months you come back to this article and do the balance checklist all over again, compare it to the first one and see if you have improved, use this as encouragement, as well as a guide.
Remember:
Your Future is your Fault!
So Dare 2 Dream!
Rich Railton
To read more of Richs Articles and to learn about how you can Realise your Dreams why not visit his website www.richrailton.info
by: Rich Railton
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