Making the Most of Life

Kind of ironically, you get the most out of life not just by taking what you can for yourself, but by giving to others. What have you done lately to help people out?

1. Take more risks.

Have you been kind to people? Have you been compassionate? Have you been there for anyone? Volunteered for those in need? Am I as good a person as I want to be?

I ask this of myself all the time. Instead of beating myself up about it, I endeavor to try harder, to remember to allow my better angels to guide me, to rise above the trivialities of life to a higher plane. But is that how you want to be remembered? Is that how you want to live your life? Give it some thought, and act accordingly. What am I doing to live life with passion, health and energy? Follow your passion and you can create a life you can be proud of. The formula is really simple: Heal, if you need to be healed, forgive if you need to forgive, learn to love if that is your lesson.

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Listen, breathe, and seek for the answers to who you are and what you are meant to do, as they are unique to all of us. Use your own sense of self to look at others without judgement, see them with clear eyes and exercise compassion.

Remember to be present in each moment, see what beautiful thing is here now, no matter how small. Get to know the true nature of mind, seeing thoughts and emotions for what they really are — just clouds passing by in the sky. Stitch the patchwork together with peaceful reflection and laughter. Decorate with love and courage. When it seems like everything at home is going well, you will be lulled into believing that you can put your investments in these relationships onto the back burner.

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That would be an enormous mistake. By the time serious problems arise in those relationships, it often is too late to repair them. One of the most common versions of this mistake that high-potential young professionals make is believing that investments in life can be sequenced. When our children are a bit older and begin to be interested in things that adults are interested in, then I can lift my foot off my career accelerator.

By that time the game is already over. But does this theory hold up to scrutiny?

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We learned this lesson most clearly from some of our interviewees who had experienced retirement. They only had achievement skills. They had no community, and few social skills beyond those that could be bought with a corporate title. They often drove their spouses crazy. On the other hand, those who tried to keep up their former pace and make one more grand killing in the marketplace often found themselves not quite so satisfied about going to work, taking on the next problem.

They feared that they may have lost their fast ball. Those who seemed most balanced in retirement had invested healthy doses of activity in all four categories over their lifetime. We see more and more examples of overcommitment to one area and neglect of the others. The brilliant computer programmer with zero social skills. The hard-charging businesswoman who waits too long to have kids. We excel by focusing our effort, as with deliberate practice.

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But the danger is that we become one dimensional — an efficient machine designed to do only one thing.