Solving the Ultimate Success Puzzle of Your Life
Perceiving the Puzzle
Does your life ever look like a Rubik’s cube to you — hopelessly scrambled? Does bringing all your life’s “pieces” into alignment seem like an impossible and frustrating task?
The real craze of the Rubik’s cube is many years in the past, but you must remember the rows of small, colorful squares that could be rotated in any direction. When you could make each side of the cube a solid color, the puzzle was solved.
The puzzle of life doesn’t really have a solution in which all its aspects are perfectly and permanently aligned. Life is a process to be engaged and enjoyed. But it often feels like a puzzle, especially when you’re struggling to find meaning in some or all of its aspects.
To
find how all
life’s
pieces begin
to fit
together,
you have to
do a few
things:
First, you
have to see
what the
pieces are.
Let’s
say for now
that a few
of them
might be
called
“Relationships,”
“Health and
Fitness,”
and
“Financial
Freedom.”
Prioritizing
Your
Ultimate
Success
Puzzle
Next, you have to decide which row to turn first in solving your “Rubik’s cube” by placing priority on one element or another. It works better to give one thing special attention first.
As you start applying new principles to one area of your life, it makes sense to occasionally play (a better word than “work”) with another area. Just be careful that you keep your main focus on building on gains in one area at a time. When you feel sure — inwardly settled — you’ve made changes that will stick in one part of your life, then move to a second area.
Sometimes, as you make advances in one area of focus, improvement in other areas comes alone automatically …. Nice! For example, as you work on improving your marriage, you might become happier and more productive at work. That makes your financial picture brighter, and can even make you feel healthier. In such a case, as you make an effort to twist life’s cube in one direction, you end up with better alignment in several areas at once.
Seeing Beneath the Surface
As you work
your life’s
puzzle, you
must realize
there is
more going
on than the
surface
reveals.
Just as a
Rubik’s cube
has an
unseen
underlying
mechanism
that allows
the rows to
be turned,
life also
has
underlying
processes
that you
might not
always be
aware of.
And in life,
sometimes a
square that
seems to be
one color
might be
another
color
underneath.
You might
have a
complaint
about your
partner’s
messiness,
but really
be feeling
that he or
she doesn’t
care about
your needs.
So if you
concentrate
on who
should put
away the
dishes, you
may miss the
real issue:
your desire
for a
greater
sense that
your partner
cares about
you. No
matter what
area of life
you choose
to focus
upon first,
try to dig a
little below
the surface
and discover
the deeper
issue.
Powering Up with the Puzzle’s Solution
Empowerment can come on many levels and in different ways. As you start aligning the pieces of your personal life puzzle, you might feel a sense of increased effectiveness and influence right away. Just identifying your area of deepest passion and finding a specific mission within it unleashes an incredible amount of power — inwardly for you, and outwardly for the world. Just making the first move can give you a tremendous sense of relief, knowing you are on your way at last.
As you advance, you will be multiplying your efforts with valuable affiliations, the support of key people, and much more. Then you’ll experience the joy of empowering others as well. Life can seem like Rubik’s cube – but putting the pieces in line will lead your life to wonderful places.
Article
by Howard
Pepper
Excerpted
from the
Ultimate
Destiny
Success
System
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