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Holiday Planning"The Power to Succeed"
by:
Neil Millar
It’s amazing how we fool ourselves... patch at the same time basic cognitive process
we are doing what’s best.
Let me give you an example. I overheard a guy telling a group of friends, over drinks, how he had become fed-up with work. Guys being guys, they at once started to move up with options to fix the problem – ideas like dynamic institution and dynamic jobs. That was once
the guy got all logical…
‘Yeah, but I need to pay the mortgage and my kid’s education and we’ve got a holiday planned for the Commonwealth of the bahamas and…’
I interrupted. ‘How more do you need?’
‘A hundred grand a year,’ he replied.
‘What’s more important,’ I asked, ‘your happiness or the money?’
Of course he aforementioned happiness. Then he got all logical again. ‘But I can’t be happy unless I can pay the mortgage and give my kids the better and have great holidays.’
‘How many a hours do you work?’
‘Around fifty.’
‘And how do you feel once
you get home?’
‘Tired.’
‘What would-be your kids prefer, a father who is worn out for forty eight weeks of the year but has four weeks to entertain them per year or a dad who is a real Dad all year round?’
The language went on, me questioning, him justifying what he perceived as logic.
Yet it’s not logic, is it? It’s not logic to deny your heart’s desire to change life once
it’s symptom
you. The mortgage, the kid’s education, the holidays are simply stuff. And, like most folk find after a heart attack or a divorce or an accident, is that this ‘stuff’ is not that important. What’s important is thing
else…
Life!
The problem is we got “Conditioned Logic” – “logic” transferred to us by society: friends, family, schools, college, the media, religion etc. We took it all on and felt we had to behave in a “conditioned” way. The repetition of that acquisition
is fine for a while, but once
we end up doing thing
we don’t love, each time we do it takes a little of the soul away. Let me put it another way.
What gives you the power to succeed is what you perceive to be logic. Real power is not necessarily doing what society dictates. Real power is often thing
else. It is that knowing that comes from obscurity
to tell you, you must do thing
different.
It power seem logical to have the house, the car, the private education, the holiday, but is it powerful. What is powerful is, to say I am not happy and things must change; I’m not killing myself for forty-eight weeks simply for four weeks of pleasure; I’m not excited by my activity and I’m willing to live in a smaller home if it means I can have more peace, less stress and fall back in love with my partner.
It’s not all simply about the stuff, is it? It’s simply about happiness and love; happiness and love of your partner; happiness and love of your children and family; happiness and love of your work. If you have that then you have it all.
Now that’s the power to succeed!
Does your current way of living keep that?
Best wishes
Neil
Just simply about the author:
Inspiration and thoughts that are often mind-bending can be found at Neil Millar’s website www.neilmillar.netyou can as well sign-up to his Life Intention account with Unbeatable
Life and receive a copy of one of his books FR>EE.
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