Physical Health
Physical health creates energy, adds quality and years to your life. Although most look at financial independence as the end-all, recognize that whether your W-2 shows $50,000 or $150,000, it doesn’t make you any happier.
On the other hand, your quality of life will certainly suffer from inattention to bodily needs. No one would argue with the fact that system abuse will shorten your life.
Recognizing that certain “pressures” exist for all of us to succeed, remember that “success” without physical health will leave you a physical (and emotional) wreck. Reasons as to how we got this way are unimportant. A commitment to physical well-being and the positive results it brings must be the focus. Complete personal success demands physical well-being.
Complete and Long-Term Loving Relationships
“No man is an island,” that adage reads, which I think expresses the importance of relationships. Ask yourself the question, “Who or what is the most important thing in the world to me?” Think about it if necessary, reflect: is it the money, the car, the house in Palm Springs? If your answer is yes, think again.
Most of us have been brought up in an environment that has strongly suggested that success in life depends on how hard we work to get all the things on which our culture tends to put a high value. Yet, our human desires never seem to be sated. Our “personality” self always wants more.
HOLD IT! Forget the acquisition of what I call “stuff”. Know your motivations and most importantly, begin with the end in mind. When you “get there” and there is no one with whom to “share the wealth” your success will be short-lived.
Recognize it’s the people, not the stuff that is of consequence.
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This article was written by Gary Field, CPA at Numerico, PC. Click here to view Numerico’s website.
