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Home | Self Improvement | Happiness The truth of the matter is that I really do enjoy helping people, so much so I have even written a book documenting a formula for happiness. I guess that makes me something of an expert on the subject. Anyway, I was nursing a beer in my favourite watering hole – I’ll tell you the name when I know you a bit better – and listening to an old pal of mine bemoaning his life. Turns out that he’s just turned 50, his hips are about to give out, his wife is giving him grief and his daughter has just discovered boys and late nights out. I took a sip of my Kilkenny – ah, smooth and silky as ever, almost a health food – and considered his predicament. “ Tell me,” I said, “how you spend a typical week. He thought it over for a moment and we both stared across the bar watching a sandwich slowly turning gold in the toaster. I won’t list it all here as I know you’ve got plenty else to be looking at, but the summary is that he spends most of his week at work, when he’s not at work he’s watching Foxtel and when he’s not watching the plasma he’s asleep. “So, “ I said, taking time for another sip of the amber nectar, “You really don’t see why your wife is busting your chops and how your entire life seems to be slipping down the drain?” The truth was, he didn’t. Felt he worked hard and was entitled to put up his feet when work was over. “Fair enough,” I said, “But your responsibility doesn’t start and stop with work and the couch, my friend.” He looked at me quizzically. I thought he was waiting for more words of wisdom, but it turned out his glass was empty and it was my round. We both watched intently as the barmaid filled up cold fresh glasses with our favourite tipple. “Mate, what you need to develop is balance. Your life is completely out of whack.” He looked at me and took a deep draught of the beer. He could see a lecture coming and needed to get prepared. “All you have at the moment is work, relaxation and sleep. You are only addressing three of your intelligences: the vocational, material and physical. Work gives you the first two and relaxing and sleeping are part of the physical. “If you develop more balance in your life, I can almost guarantee that you’re going to feel better and so will your wife and daughter. I then gave him the formula that revolves around the seven intelligences. Practice each of them on a daily basis, I told him, and before you know it you’ve got a powerful set of new behaviours that will turn your life around and deliver the right conditions for unimagined levels of happiness. He was looking sceptical. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a copy of The Bonsai of Balance. I slid it across to him. “It’s all in there, buddy,” I said. All you have to do is balance these seven intelligences: spiritual, emotional, physical, intellectual, creative, vocational and material. Once you’ve done that, you’ve got it made. He grunted and sipped his beer, providing me with the most articulate feedback that I’d had in that conversation. I noted that when he put the glass down he used the book as a beer coaster. Sometimes, it’s hard to be a guru but at least the beer’s cold. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
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