The Power of Living Ethically with Joy Passion

The Power of Living Ethically with Joy, Passion and Purpose every day! Prof Andries Stulting Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State

The Power of Living Ethically with Joy, Passion and Purpose every day! Robin Sharma on Life Lessons ISBN: 978 -0 -00 -749734 -8

LIFE LESSONS These powerful life lessons will help the delegates to: achieve their dreams defeat their fears discover happiness that lasts

LIFE LESSONS Sharma has captured the wisdom of the ages and made it relevant for our turbulent times

LIFE LESSONS “The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live. ” (Norman Cousins).

LIFE LESSONS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Discover your calling Maintain your perspective Develop an honesty philosophy Honour your past See your troubles as blessings

LIFE LESSONS 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Get behind people’s eyeballs Connect with nature Stop complaining and start living See your day as your life Live fully so that you can die happy 11. Write a legacy statement

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING �When I was growing up, my father said something to me I will never forget: �“Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. �Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice. ”

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING �We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about. �We can easily put a person on the Moon, but we have trouble walking across the street to meet a new neighbour. �We can fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we have trouble keeping a date with our children.

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING �We have e-mail and digital phones so that we can stay connected and yet we live in a time where human beings have never been less connected. �We have lost our touch with humanity. �We have lost touch with our purpose. �We have lost sight of the things that matter the most.

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING Who will cry when you die?

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING How many lives will you touch while you have the privilege to walk this planet?

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING What legacy will you leave behind after you have taken your last breath?

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING The answer is: find your calling.

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING We are all here for some unique purpose, some noble objective that will allow us to manifest our highest human potential while we, at the same time, add value to the lives around us.

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING It simply means you need to bring more of yourself into your work and focus on the things you do.

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING “Be the change that you wish to see most in your world. ” (Mahatma Gandhi)

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING Who will cry when you die?

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING Have you forgotten what life is all about?

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING Do you have trouble keeping a date with your children?

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING Are you disconnected?

DISCOVER YOUR CALLING Have you lost sight of the things that matter the most?

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE Are the problems you have experienced or the challenges you might currently be facing really as serious as you have made them out to be?

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE Do you know the story of the five blind men all describing the same elephant? (Ken Blanchard in Trust works!)

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE • The one who feels the leg says it’s like a tree • The one who feels the tail swears it’s like a rope • The one who feels the elephant’s trunk is sure it’s like a snake

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE • The one who feels its ear insists it’s like a fan • The one who feels its side is sure the elephant is like a wall

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE There is one object, namely the elephant, but 5 different perspectives from 5 people!

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE “It is easier to change the curvature of the cornea by doing keratorefractive surgery, than to change someone’s perspective!” (Andries Stulting)

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE Are your past problems or current challenges really as serious?

MAINTAIN YOUR PERSPECTIVE Do you always maintain your perspective?

DEVELOP AN HONESTY PHILOSOPHY

DEVELOP AN HONESTY PHILOSOPHY • We live in a world of broken promises. • We live in a time when people treat their words lightly. • Saying things we don’t really mean becomes a habit when we practice it long enough.

DEVELOP AN HONESTY PHILOSOPHY • The real problem is that when you don’t keep your word, you lose credibility. • When you lose credibility, you break the bonds of trust. • And breaking the bonds of trust ultimately leads to a string of broken relationships.

DEVELOP AN HONESTY PHILOSOPHY • To develop an honesty philosophy, begin to monitor how many small untruths you tell over the course of a week. • Go on a “truth fast” for the next seven days and vow to be completely honest in all your dealings with others and with yourself.

DEVELOP AN HONESTY PHILOSOPHY? Do you say things you don’t really mean?

HONOUR YOUR PAST

HONOUR YOUR PAST • Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. • Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.

HONOUR YOUR PAST • Instead, use the lessons you have learned from your past to rise to a whole new level of awareness and enlightenment. • Life’s greatest setbacks reveal life’s biggest opportunities.

HONOUR YOUR PAST “There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change. ” (Euripides)

HONOUR YOUR PAST “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed. ” (Booker T Washington)

HONOUR YOUR PAST Do you learn from the past, live in the present and plan for the future?

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS Why do we, as human beings, spend so much of our lives focusing on the negative aspects of our most difficult experiences rather than seeing them for what they truly are: our greatest teachers?

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS Once and for all, come to realize that pain is a teacher and failure is the highway to success.

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS You cannot learn how to play the guitar without hitting a few wrong notes and you will never learn how to sail if you are not willing to tip the boat over a few times.

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS Begin to see your troubles as blessings, resolve to transform your stumbling blocks into stepping stones and vow to turn your wounds into wisdom.

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS • Remember that our character is shaped, not through life’s easiest experiences, but during life’s toughest ones. • It is during life’s most trying times that we discover who we really are and the fullness of the strength that lies within us.

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS Do you see your troubles as blessings?

SEE YOUR TROUBLES AS BLESSINGS Are you always focusing on the negative aspects of your experiences?

GET BEHIND PEOPLE’S EYEBALLS

GET BEHIND PEOPLE’S EYEBALLS • One of the deepest of all the human hungers is the need to be understood, cherished and honoured. • In the fast-paced days we live in, too many people believe that listening involves nothing more than waiting for the other person to stop talking.

GET BEHIND PEOPLE’s EYEBALLS And to make matters worse, while that person is speaking, we are all too often using that time to formulate our own response, rather than empathizing with the point being made.

GET BEHIND PEOPLE’s EYEBALLS Taking the time to truly understand another’s point of view shows that you value what the other person has to say and care about him/her as a person.

GET BEHIND PEOPLE’s EYEBALLS When you start “getting behind the eyeballs” of the person who is speaking and try to see the world from his/her perspective, you will connect with him/her deeply and build hightrust relationships that last.

GET BEHIND PEOPLE’s EYEBALLS • We have two ears and one mouth for a reason: to listen twice as much as we speak. • And having the courtesy to be a better listener has another advantage: since you are not doing all the talking, you are doing all the learning!

GET BEHIND PEOPLE’s EYEBALLS A few practical tips to become better at the art of listening: • Resist the temptation to interrupt. • If appropriate, take notes.

GET BEHIND PEOPLE’s EYEBALLS Do you take the time to listen to another person?

CONNECT WITH NATURE

CONNECT WITH NATURE • We live in an age of seemingly limitless information. • Over the years I have found that spending time alone in natural surroundings connects me to the large universe around me and restores my spirit in this hurried age.

CONNECT WITH NATURE • My priorities become clearer, my obligations seem less pressing and my mind grows still. • Connecting with nature is also an excellent way to unlock your creativity and generate new ideas.

CONNECT WITH NATURE Natural surroundings serve to stifle the endless chatter that fills our minds so that our true brilliance can be liberated.

CONNECT WITH NATURE “When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. ” (Mahatma Gandhi).

CONNECT WITH NATURE “Through the window of the eye, the soul regards the world’s beauty…. Who would believe that a small scene of nature could contain the images of the universe? ” (Leonardo da Vinci)

CONNECT WITH NATURE Do you make enough time to spend in natural surroundings?

STOP COMPLAINING AND START LIVING

STOP COMPLAINING AND START LIVING • If you are not as fulfilled or as happy or as prosperous or as peaceful as you know you could be, stop blaming your parents or the economy or your boss and take full responsibility for your circumstances.

STOP COMPLAINING AND START LIVING This will be the first step to a completely new way of looking at your life and the starting point of a better way to live.

STOP COMPLAINING AND START LIVING Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier.

STOP COMPLAINING AND START LIVING “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. ”(George Bernard Shaw).

STOP COMPLAINING AND START LIVING “If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that’s in it. ” (Rudyard Kipling).

STOP COMPLAINING AND START LIVING Do you take full responsibility for your circumstances?

SEE YOUR DAY AS YOUR LIFE

SEE YOUR DAY AS YOUR LIFE • As you live your days, so you will live your life. • A great live is nothing more than a series of great, well-lived days strung together like a beautiful necklace of pearls.

SEE YOUR DAY AS YOUR LIFE • Every day counts and contributes to the quality of the end result. • The past is gone, the future is but a figment, so this day is really all you can own – invest it wisely!

SEE YOUR DAY AS YOUR LIFE • Your life is not a dress rehearsal. • Lost opportunities rarely come again.

SEE YOUR DAY AS YOUR LIFE Today, vow to increase your passion for living and multiply the commitment you will bring to each of the days that will follow this one.

SEE YOUR DAY AS YOUR LIFE And the best life change decision you will ever make is the one to live every moment of your days to the fullest.

SEE YOUR DAY AS YOUR LIFE As golf legend Ben Hogan said: “As you walk down the fairway of life, you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. ”

SEE YOUR DAY AS YOUR LIFE Do you live every moment of your days to the fullest?

LIVE FULLY SO THAT YOU CAN DIE HAPPY

LIVE FULLY SO YOU CAN DIE HAPPY • We live in an age where we have conquered the highest of mountains but have yet to master our selves. • We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers, more possessions but less happiness, fuller minds but emptier lives.

LIVE FULLY SO YOU CAN DIE HAPPY Happiness and a life of deep fulfillment come when you commit yourself, from the very core of your soul, to spending your highest talents on a purpose that makes a difference in other people’s lives.

LIVE FULLY SO YOU CAN DIE HAPPY • Live for something more than yourself. • The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

LIVE FULLY SO YOU CAN DIE HAPPY “Life is no brief candle to me. It’s a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ”(Robin Sharma)

LIVE FULLY SO YOU CAN DIE HAPPY Do you spend your highest talents on a purpose that makes a difference in other people’s lives?

WRITE A LEGACY DOCUMENT

WRITE A LEGACY STATEMENT • The first fifty years of life are dedicated to building one’s legitimacy while the last fifty are devoted to building one’s legacy. • Many of us spend the first half of our lives striving for achievement and struggling to gain respect. .

WRITE A LEGACY STATEMENT • Once we have this legitimacy, whether it comes in the form of prestige or material possessions, we soon realize that something is missing. • We then spend the remaining years of our lives trying to do what we should have done from the beginning: create a legacy.

WRITE A LEGACY STATEMENT • The time to start building your legacy is today, not ten years from today when you “have more time” because we know that time will never arrive. • Reflect on what it is you want to create in your life and, more importantly, what gift you wish to leave the world when you are no longer here.

WRITE A LEGACY STATEMENT Greatness comes from beginning something that does not end with you.

WRITE A LEGACY STATEMENT What gift would you wish to leave the world when you are no longer here?

The Power of Living Ethically with Joy, Passion and Purpose every day! Thank you for your precious time in listening to the Life Lessons by Robin Sharma

The Power of Living Ethically with Joy, Passion and Purpose every day! Robin Sharma on Life Lessons ISBN: 978 -0 -00 -749734 -8

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