How To Have A Beautiful Life In A Mad Dash Society

How to Have a Beautiful Life in a Mad Dash Society. Hello everyone, I hope you are well. In today’s post, I will share a few tips about having a beautiful life in a mad dash society. When you ask your friends out for a gathering, do you often get, “Sorry, I’ve got an appointment, or I have a meeting on that day”? Many people are chronically busy nowadays. They all have the compulsion to be successful as fast as possible. And to achieve that, they figure they must compress five years of work into one by moving five times more quickly!

So they rush – developing a hard-nosed edge, sacrificing personal time and relationships to get as much done as possible. But despite their earnest and wholehearted attempt to be successful, they often waste their effort because they lose their sense of direction – focusing on the trees, but overlooking the forest – they end up running in circles.

How To Have A Beautiful Life In A Mad Dash Society

Stop and Reflect

If you don’t occasionally stop running and look at the stars, how will you know which way is North? (Don’t tell me you have a compass.) In real terms, this means you have to spend daily time to stop and reflect.

• What do I value in life?
• What does success mean to me?
• Has what I’ve done today brought me closer to my life’s goal?
• How do I get from where I am to where I want to be?

Yes, these questions require you to think deeply; do some soul-searching. But when you have the answers, your mind will be clear.

It’s like driving a car with a clean windscreen… you can see where you’re going! I suggest you clean your windscreen every night by taking time to reflect.

That way, your VISION will be as sharp as can be. Everyone needs a Vision – that vivid mental image of what you’d like to Be, Do, and Have in life. Without it, we can’t see which way we’re headed. And the only way to develop it is to pause, reflect, think deeply, and search your soul.

The Love of Having

Have you heard of Retail Therapy?

Women love it.

It’s the idea that you can go shopping and buy something you like, making you feel good about yourself.

In the Be-Do-Have model, buying stuff is obviously in the HAVING stage. People subconsciously feel that having more capability will make them become who they want to be (Have>>Be). But the sad part is that only the reverse is true.

Being who you want to be will lead you to have what such a person has (Be>>Do>>Have).

Many people are using the Retail Therapy model to feel successful.

They scamper to earn as much money as possible, then splurge it on a lavish lifestyle – fast cars, high-class dining, luxurious apartment, hot nightspots, and exotic travelling.

All these luxuries and status symbols are supposed to help them BE somebody… But unless they already know who they are on the inside, they often end up being nobody.

Luxury Rich But Cash Poor

These people have spent all their money on toys. They will never get rich because they have none left over to invest.

As we rush through our day, making money and spending lavishly in a race to be successful, perhaps we can realise that all it takes… is one diagnosis of a critical illness, one lawsuit that bankrupts you, or the death of a loved one, to shift your values in life.

Suddenly the stuff you have isn’t necessary anymore… You’d gladly give it away to recover your health, shelter your family, or share more time with your loved one.

• All a dying man wants is to be well again.
• A homeless man wants good food and a warm place to sleep.
• And all a grieving man wants is to spend more time with his loved ones.

Don’t Let This Happen To You

Slow down, pause, and reflect.

Figure out what’s important to you in life.

Then spend more time doing what’s essential rather than following the masses – busy every day, chasing an imaginary shopping list of what it takes to succeed. Remember… better to stroll in the right direction than to dash madly all over the place.

I hope you enjoyed that.

Talk soon.