Living Multiple Lives In One Lifetime

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Living Multiple Lives In One Lifetime

Posted: 2008-04-30 15:36:33 UTC+05:30

For you to be at peace with yourself, you need to be at peace in each of the multiple lives that you are living.We

live multiple lives in our lifetime. Whereas at a subconscious level we

are aware of it, we seldom look at it from this perspective. We broadly

categorize our activities and environment as personal or professional

based on whether it is home, friends, work or non-work related.I

want you to consider for a moment that the differentiation in your

personal and professional life is not only external but is internal as

well; i.e., you are a very different person in each life. In fact, if

you isolate your personal and professional life and look at yourself

from a third person's perspective you will see two very different

individuals.I would also encourage you to observe carefully and

identify the multiple primary lives you are leading, rather than just

classifying your activities as personal and professional. For example,

I live three primary lives; a family life, a product manager's life,

and a writer's life. I am a very different person in each of my three

lives. My focus is different, my way of dealing with others is

different, what defines my success or failure is different, what

excites or depresses me is different and the way I conduct myself is

different.As a family person

my focus is primarily on the well being of my family, taking care of

financial and emotional needs, making sure that my child grows up to be

a fine individual, going for holidays and outings, celebrating

festivals with extended family and friends, getting a life insurance to

help my family even after my death (something that you only do for your

family), building assets for post retirement security, etc.As a product manager,

my focus is on ensuring long term sustained revenue and growth of my

product. Understanding customer needs, competitive landscape and

emerging technologies. Speaking at conferences, listening to customer

complaints, reviewing product bug list with quality assurance and

engineering. Defining the future roadmap for the product etc.As a writer,

my focus is to deeply observe life and people and to share thought

provoking insights through my writings. Interacting with readers, from

over hundred countries, having extremely diverse backgrounds and

cultures. Discussing feedback and comments. Marketing and promotion to

reach potential readers. Learning technologies that help me make my

blog more attractive and pleasant, etc.For you to

be living powerfully, you need to make progress and be at peace in each

of your multiple lives. Making progress in one life at the cost of

others will lead to unrest. You need to balance your time and energies

between each of your primary lives. Identify your primary lives and evaluate each life in isolation. Do what it takes to be at peace in each of your life.

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