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This reminds me of Dan Miller's 7 Areas of Success: Career Financial Personal Development Physical Relationships Spiritual Social As he often sa

This reminds me of Dan Miller's 7 Areas of Success: Career Financial Personal Development Physical Relationships Spiritual Social As he often says on his podcast [1], you must be making continual deposits of success in every area, and career is only ONE area. For example, if you experience a temporary "interruption of employment status", the first thing you should do is start an exercise regimen (if you don't already have one). Each one feeds into each other, and I know after a particularly terrible day, I personally feel a hundred times better after a challenging CrossFit workout with friends. [1] http://www.48days.com/category/48-days-podcast http://www.48days.com/category/48-days-podcast

gcb0 13y ago
This reminds me of catch-22. it is easy said. but how can you have progress if you are burned out?
- Paul_D_Santana 13y ago
  Exercise; spend time with friends and family; attend service at your chosen place of worship; join a new group on meetup.com.
  - gcb0 13y ago
    if people did that, they wouldn't be burned out. hence a catch-22.
    - dasil003 13y ago
      The key is that burnout doesn't prevent progress in all areas.
- stray 13y ago
  Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.
Eliezer 13y ago
Really? Success in just one area is plenty to keep me going. It's when you get success in no areas that you're in trouble, or when success in one area is balanced by a disaster elsewhere, etc.
obviouslygreen 13y ago
Ah yes. A list of less than ten things that must always apply to everyone by which we can measure things x and y and prevent things z and mu. If you can't do #1, you can do #2 and #3 and feel fulfilled! That's how people work -- all people -- so take my advice! If any part of this happens to work for you, by the way, it's because I am completely right, and not due to the fact that I'm wrapping obvious things in swaths of bullshit to sell or gain subscriptions so I can get more popular and sell more speaking engagements. Sorry, this just smells like crap.
- Paul_D_Santana 13y ago
  Nowhere did I say this is the only way. Just that it reminded me of it. Can you suggest a better system? If not, I like his way of thinking and I wanted to share.
- dasil003 13y ago
  It smells like crap? No, it smells like you have a thing against self-help books. I've never heard about this before but it strikes me as a potentially useful way of looking at personal life a bit more systematically than a simply stated "work-life balance" that everyone uses rhetorically but is rarely defined. Maybe instead of indignantly demanding "how dare this guy attempt to define me according to his own pop psychology metrics!?" or "this clearly does not work for everyone so it's utterly useless crap!", you could suspend judgement for a few microseconds and discuss the actual content.
  - Paul_D_Santana 13y ago
    Thank you! I was thinking along the same lines but I figured I should quit posting since everyone seemed to be attacking me. Thank you for making me feel like my attempt at a positive message was worthwhile. +1 Upvote from me.

gcb0 13y ago

This reminds me of catch-22. it is easy said. but how can you have progress if you are burned out?

Paul_D_Santana 13y ago
Exercise; spend time with friends and family; attend service at your chosen place of worship; join a new group on meetup.com.
- gcb0 13y ago
  if people did that, they wouldn't be burned out. hence a catch-22.
  - dasil003 13y ago
    The key is that burnout doesn't prevent progress in all areas.
stray 13y ago
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

Eliezer 13y ago

Really? Success in just one area is plenty to keep me going. It's when you get success in no areas that you're in trouble, or when success in one area is balanced by a disaster elsewhere, etc.

obviouslygreen 13y ago

Ah yes. A list of less than ten things that must always apply to everyone by which we can measure things x and y and prevent things z and mu. If you can't do #1, you can do #2 and #3 and feel fulfilled! That's how people work -- all people -- so take my advice! If any part of this happens to work for you, by the way, it's because I am completely right, and not due to the fact that I'm wrapping obvious things in swaths of bullshit to sell or gain subscriptions so I can get more popular and sell more speaking engagements. Sorry, this just smells like crap.

Paul_D_Santana 13y ago
Nowhere did I say this is the only way. Just that it reminded me of it. Can you suggest a better system? If not, I like his way of thinking and I wanted to share.
dasil003 13y ago
It smells like crap? No, it smells like you have a thing against self-help books. I've never heard about this before but it strikes me as a potentially useful way of looking at personal life a bit more systematically than a simply stated "work-life balance" that everyone uses rhetorically but is rarely defined. Maybe instead of indignantly demanding "how dare this guy attempt to define me according to his own pop psychology metrics!?" or "this clearly does not work for everyone so it's utterly useless crap!", you could suspend judgement for a few microseconds and discuss the actual content.
- Paul_D_Santana 13y ago
  Thank you! I was thinking along the same lines but I figured I should quit posting since everyone seemed to be attacking me. Thank you for making me feel like my attempt at a positive message was worthwhile. +1 Upvote from me.