"If you mix humor and passion to life, add love in your home, blend together peace and forgiveness - success and happiness is inevitable."
You can read all the books and listen to hundreds of tapes all your life about success and happiness but I believe by the end of the day, if any of the above are missing - then success and happiness is not complete.
Here's why.
Imagine, even if you have the most successful business in the world but lack "love" in your home then what kind of life is that? Or maybe it's hard for you to let go of the past or forgive someone? Its a "richly but sad life."
I remember my older sister 10 years ago she was torn between 2 men pursuing her. One was really well off but quite a jerk! The other, was a really cool guy - but not well off with no motivation at all in terms of his career. She asked for my advice. Before I did I wanted to give her a hard time. LOL! So I started with a joke. I said, you have 2 choices. Your problem is real simple and easy. The only question you have to ask yourself is this, do you want to live your life "richly sad" or happily broke?" My answer I will reserve for another day :)
OK - back to business! So having everything doesn't necessarily mean "having everything" or it equals to total success and total happiness.
How about if you do have love in your home, have passion in your career or business but lack "humor" in life, I bet you won't be truly happy either. Can you imagine what type of life one will have? One who takes everything too seriously?
If you have humor, love, peace and forgiveness but lacks passion I highly doubt you will be successful in your career or happy either. A life without meaning and purpose is as good as a life 6 feet under. The gifts and talents we were blessed with go to waste. We don't get to live our true potential.
So how do we mix and blend them altogether? For now, it's important to realize that success and happiness consist of two parts. Internal and external. And that man consists of 3 parts. Body, mind and soul. All these 5 things are intertwined to work together in harmony.
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