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Balancing Your Family and Business Life
Learn to juggle your work and
family. Even if you are in
a very hard-hitting, high-powered position in your business, you do not have
to sacrifice your family.
Take self-care measures and
get creative
about integrating your work and family life so you can be a successful
leader and fulfill personal obligations.
Life-Business Synergy
Decision as the Key to Transformation
Decision
is the key to transformation. In his classic work, "Think & Grow Rich",
Napoleon Hill stated that 98% of people are in the jobs they have through
indecision, i.e. because they never made the decision about what
they wanted to do in their lives in the first place. Indecision explains why
many people feel that they have a life purpose, but have no idea what it is.
Buddhism: The Wheel of Life
The
Wheel of Life is a representation of the Buddhist teaching on the
suffering and impermanence of cyclic existence.
The Wheel of Life in Buddhism
Dalai Lama of Tibet, the Winner of the Nobel Piece Prize, explains the
differences between the Buddhist and Western approaches to life, "In modern
Western society, there seems to be a powerful cultural conditioning that is
based on science. But in some instances, the basic premises and parameters
set up by Western science can limit your ability to deal with certain
realities.
For instance, you have the constraints of the idea that
everything can be explained within the framework of a single lifetime, and
you combine this with the notion that everything can and must be explained
and accounted for. But when you encounter phenomena that you cannot account
for, then there's a kind of tension created; it's almost a feeling of agony.
In Western psychology there may be a tendency to overemphasize the role of
the unconscious in looking for the source of one's problems. This stems from
some of the basic assumptions that Western psychology starts with: for
instance, they do not accept the idea of imprints being carried over from a
past life. And at the same time there is an assumption that everything must
be accounted for within this lifetime.
 So, when you can't explain what is
causing certain behaviors or problems, the tendency is to always attribute
it to the unconscious. It's a bit like you've lost something and you decide
that the object is in this room. And once you have decided this, then you've
already fixed your parameters; you've precluded the possibility of its being
outside the room or in another room.
So you keep on searching and searching,
but you are not finding it, yet you continue to assume that it is still
hidden somewhere in the room!"
"Buddhism
can accept many of the factors that the Western theorists can come up with,
but on top of that it would add additional factors. For example, it would
add the conditioning and imprints from previous lives."2
Dharma Wheel and the Noble Eightfold Path
Hinduism: Aspiration for Balance
Hindu approach
to the human life shows aspiration for
balance. For example, the concept of four ashramas (stages of
life) has been developed to actualize this need for balance.
The same goal
has the concept of three
vargas (goals of life): artha (success, profit),
dharma (consciousness development/ religious duty) and
kama
(love). In
Hinduism these three purposes of life are seen as equal and essential to
fulfill.
It is said that artha, dhama and kama constitute the one way
to moksha.
Islam: Leading a Balanced Life
A balanced life is the way
of Islam. Islam teaches people not to be extremists: i.e. neither do too
little nor do too much, but follow the Golden Balance. Islam
teaches people not to be extremists: i.e. do neither too little nor too
much, but follow the Golden Balance. Furthermore, it teaches people to seek
a
balance between various facets of life. There should be harmony and
balance between all of the following goals:
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Financial Goals
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Religious Goals
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Intellectual Goals
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Social Goals
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Family Goals
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Personal Goals
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Philanthropic Goals
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Physical Goals3
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