Sometimes, we get easily carried away by things happening around us and we don’t realize that we have missed the big picture.  In the long run, we pay a bitter price.

Take mine as an example.  For a long time in the past, I was so focused on making money that I barely had much time for my family. My mind was so occupied that I often appeared as indifferent or insensitive.  Looking back, my family had missed out a good part of our life together especially the bringing up of our two boys during their adolescence years.

Having a concept of holistic life is important.  It helps us to keep things in prospective.

My model of a holistic life is represented by eight sectors joined together to make a full circle. You can imagine if the circle is full, it is like a fully inflated wheel.  Of course, it would run very smoothly.  By referring to the picture, you could evaluated your score from 0 (the center point), to full score 10 (the circumference) on each sector. When you link them together, you would see how round your “circle” is.

Some of the essential questions I would ask myself:
1/  Family – is it in name, or in substance?
2/  Health – am I settling for “not getting sick”, or attaining the optimal form and vitality?
3/  Wealth –  am I building pipelines or carrying buckets?
4/  Career –  is this still my passion, putting the money matter aside?
5/  Leisure – what else there I would like to do for pleasure?
6/  Relations – how well am I connected with my network of friends and contacts?
7/  Personal Development – do I put aside at least half an hour a day to nurture my knowledge bank?, and
8/  Spiritual – is there an even bigger picture beyond the earthly things?

You might come up with more questions, or you might even come up with a different version of holistic life altogether.  It is perfectly alright.  Whatever that is important to you counts. The main point here is to start us thinking.

Live Life, Junius.