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.
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Arriving at the magic number 10 in the posts here, I think it is time to count the beans so to speak, and consolidate my thoughts in order to move on from this point.
As I find out, blogging can be quite time consuming particularly if you want to explore the nuts and bolts that come with it. One would have to weigh up what is put in and what is expected to come out of it. I set certain expectations when I decided to enter blogging. The said expectations or purposes become even stronger since the day 1. I feel a sense of mission to continue. I hope to add value.
I want to document my reasons here so that whenever I look at this post, it would be a handy reminder to keep me in focus.
Firstly, it is about making awareness on the importance of a holistic life (more on it next time). When our road map becomes clearer, life changes for the better.
Secondly, it is the notion of “owning back our life”, more so for people who think they cannot get away from being enslaved to the boss or even their own business. It is great if we can help people think even a little bit more outside the traditional box and not following a world of sheer conformity. Life can be as beautiful as you make it happen. And, on that road, there is no failure.
Thirdly, I like the internet world because of its people power, and knowledge power. Running this blog is a good learning opportunity for me. Through improving on ourselves as a person, we can improve the world around us.
Lastly but not the least, I want to experience first hand the passive income potential that is so much talked about on internet marketing.
p.s. this post was written during my flight from KL to Sydney. The picture here was a convenient pick from the window. God always surprises us with so many beautiful things, if only we have a moment to discover.
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