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How To Live A Successful And Balanced Life

I have just finished a book called The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. And this is exactly what I am going to share with you today. To tell you frankly, I’m really inspired by the information in that book.

Although it is just a small book, but its content truly opened my mind. I will strongly recommend everyone who wants to live a successful and balanced life to grab this book.

What I’m going to share with you here today are the rough ideas of what the book is all about. I believe that the information is great and empowering. If after you finish this post and find it boring, it is my plain English and my normal writing style that makes it so.

That is why I strongly recommend you to grab The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. It is worth much more than its price tag. There are so many self-help books I have read and I dare say this is one of the best.

So here are the 7 wisdom that the book is going to teach you…

Wisdom #1 - Master Your Mind

I believe that you will think this is a common success tip for you. However, don’t underestimate this. Robin Sharma made it a masterpiece in explaining this and I felt totally inspired when reading this chapter myself. You know, I’ve been in self-development field for some time now, thus, if this book can inspire me, I bet it will do the same for you.

In this book, the author represent the mind as a garden. Therefore, you have to make sure your garden is clean and take care of it all the time. If you ever throw any toxic waste into your garden, all the beautiful flower and green grass will be gone. It is exactly the same for your mind.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your mind. What you think in your mind, you will create in your life.

Although that you cannot control what is happening to you such as a heavy traffic, flood or earthquake, but you definitely can control your mind and your thoughts. This is a gift from God that separate you from animal.

So by controlling the thoughts you have in your mind, you will be able to control your response and how you act according to your surrounding. As a result, you will be able to master your own destiny.

You can choose to read this article to the end or you can choose to be skeptical and leave this page right now. You have the power to choose and you can control your thought. This is what makes you human. This is what gives you the power you need to achieve anything you want in your life.

Thus, make sure you take care of your garden (mind) appropriately. Feed your mind with inspirational books and empowering information all the time. How you nurture your mind will show in your outer world.

If you are living in poverty today, it is because you have a poor mindset that focuses on poverty thoughts. There is nothing wrong with you. The only thing that is wrong are the thoughts that you are thinking. This explains why some people are successful and some people are living in mediocrity even though they are totally perfect physically.

Wisdom #2 - Follow Your Purpose

To live a successful and balanced life, you have to know exactly what you want physically, emotionally, spiritually and of course, materially.

If you don’t know where you are heading, you will never know when you have reached there. This is exactly what is happening with most people. They do not have a clear direction in their life. Most people are blur with what they want in their life, and as a result, they become the lost sheep and they will just follow the crowd to wherever the crowd goes.

Do not let this happen to you!

Do you know how can you attain lasting happiness? It is by constantly pursuing your goals and advancing towards the purpose and direction of your life.

The key point here is to find out your true talent, passion and your real purpose in life. Some people discover that they are great speaker and so they become a teacher or a lecturer. Some people have the talent in singing and so they end up becoming a great artist. What about you?

The main key is to have the discipline and vision to see your heroic mission and to serve others when you realize it.

A lot of people spend their lives dreaming about happiness and becoming successful. Yet, they never spend even 10 minutes to really find out what they truly want to accomplish in their life and writing down everything they want in life.

Thus, from now on, find out your true purpose in life and pursue the things you want.

Do you know that the first best time to plant a tree is the moment when you were born into this world? And the second best time will be now. If you never have a dream before, this will be the perfect moment for you. Don’t waste your life anymore. Know your purpose in life and pursue what you want.

Wisdom #3 - Practice Kaizen

Kaizen is a Japanese word. It simply means the habit of constant and never ending improvement. If you have read Anthony Robbin’s book, you will know what he means by this.

Success comes from the inside before you can manifest it into the outside. If you want to improve your outer world, be it your health, relationship or finances, you must first improve your inner world.

Here is a short quote from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari:

When you have cultivated a deep sense of faith in your abilities and an indomitable spirit, nothing can stop you from succeeding in all your pursuits and living with great rewards. Taking the time to master your mind, to care for the body and to nourish your soul will put you in a position to develop more richness and vitality in your life. It is as Epictetus said so many years ago: ‘No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Someone who don’t know how to lead himself cannot lead a big corporation. Someone who cannot nurture himself will never know how to take care of his family. This is why you need to constantly improve yourself before you can improve your outer world.

Understand and always keep this in your mind, “the only limits on your life are those that you set yourself”. You can achieve anything you want in your life. As long as you practice the principle of Kaizen, you start to liberate your true human potential.

So practice this principle from now on. Live the life you always wanted. Be the one who you always want to be. Work hard to improve your body and your mind. Get out of your comfort zone and do the things you fear. And start to live life with passion and limitless energy from within you.

This is all that I’m going to share with you. If you feel that this is inspiring and it opens your heart and your mind, do as I say, invest yourself in this The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.

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2 Responses to “How To Live A Successful And Balanced Life”

  1. Thank i would love to have copy am in uganda we dont have credit card how can i get one

  2. Hi Fred, you can get one from your local bookstore.

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