Relax? Focus? Succeed?
Chances are you, you
don't think of these activities together -- You don't see them as being
related to one another. Perhaps Focus and Success. But
Relaxation?
The Philosophy
My premise is simple
but powerful: I believe the fundamental keys to success are Focus,
Hard Work, and Balance. "Success literature" is full of Focus and
Hard Work but shy on emphasizing Balance.
Without Relaxation, without balance, work
cannot be successful. You cannot be successful without balance.
Sometimes you have to not work. Sometimes you have to give
yourself the gift of enjoying your life. And when you do this,
consciously aware that you're giving yourself this gift, then you achieve
clarity: Your Focus becomes sharper, your work more
meaningful, and your Success that much closer.
I place Relax
first because it is the most important and most neglected element.
Only when you learn to relax and bring balance to your life will you be
truly successful.
Focus is second because it is the driving force in
everything we do and everything we achieve. If you focus on watching
television, you master watching television; if you focus on your children
you will be an excellent parent; if you focus on money you will attain
money; if you focus on being a better person, you become a better person.
And if you want to be an excellent parent
with enough money to send your kids to college and retire without worrying
about paying the bills? Then we're back to Balance -- learning to
relax and bring the competing elements of your life together in harmony.
The unspoken element is
Hard Work. This is not in the title because it's the
one element everyone should know about. I say "should."
Unsuccessful people think they can attain their goals without working.
They believe they can get rich quick, read a book and straighten out their
relationships in an afternoon, or lose weight by taking a sugar pill.
I suspect these are the same people who buy hair in a spray can and order
diet cola with their super-sized Mondo Burger.
The final element is
Success. Success is not money, although having money
is one kind of success on which we frequently focus. Success is
attaining your goals. Money is often a means to attaining
goals, but reflection will tell us that money is never a goal unto itself.
Money helps us take vacations, buy toys, enjoy our hobbies, lavish gifts
on the people we love, take time for ourselves, contribute to our
communities, and attain our goals.
It
takes relaxation -- and focus -- to create and understand the balance in
our lives. Relaxation and Focus are absolutely essential to the
process of defining, seeking, and attaining our goals. In other
words, without relaxation and focus there is no success.
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under construction. With luck, it always will be! Here I will
post commentary on the many aspects of the philosophy
Relax Focus Succeed™. You will see that the philosophy builds on
and expands upon the great literature in the areas of success, personal
growth, and religion.
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