<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nUsually, with this anchor, a person can answer the question, “What is the purpose of my life?” A question that many are afraid to seek the answer to, don’t know how to approach it, or don’t even bother to answer, being carried away in their professional life by whichever wind blows strongest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I once witnessed the global CEO of a large company being stopped by his vice president’s widow from entering the facility where her husband’s body was being laid for the funeral services. Later, I learned that the company was the strongest purpose in that executive’s life, and the family did not want to see that represented at such a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victor Frankl, the famous author of the book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” having gone through the horrors of the concentration camps in World War II, quoted in his book: “He who knows why <\/em><\/strong>to live can bear almost any how<\/em><\/strong>” (emphasis added by the author himself).<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor me personally, the challenge has always been to see the present from the perspective of the future. I hope that many can realize this before reaching that future. The reason is very simple: current pressures cloud our view of what will matter years later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, some things that I once thought were of vital importance, looking back, I see that they should not have been. On many of those occasions, I should have made different decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is very difficult to provide a “modus operandi”<\/em> for this, as each situation is extremely different, but it is worth trying the suggestion here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Visualization<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIf we visualize the different areas of our life as circles on a computer screen, these circles can have different sizes depending on the priority given to each area. These are strictly personal decisions, in which I have no intention of interfering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The purpose of this article is simply to raise an alert when the professional circle starts to have a disproportionate dimension, unbalancing all the others. This does not apply to everyone, but the more one progresses in the professional hierarchy, this circle tends to grow very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If this situation is causing you discomfort, then you may consider some ideas from this article. Otherwise, continue with your life as the choices are entirely individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A possible pitfall is not recognizing the potential harm in this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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