The Bottom Line on Happiness

Use the tools of business to create a life of fulfillment and integrity.


Here are some management tools that can be used to help you lead a purposeful life.

1) Use your resources wisely.
     Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy and talent shape your life's strategy. You have a limited amount of time, energy and talent. How much do you devote to each of these pursuits? Allocation choices can make your life turn out to be very different from what you originally intended. Sometimes that's a good thing: Opportunities that you never planned for emerge. But if you don't invest your resources wisely, the outcome can be bad. So, think wisely!!!

2) Create a family culture
     Families have cultures, just as company do. Parents should begin working  with their children at a very young age to build a culture in which children instinctively behave respectfully towards one another, obey their parents, and choose the right thing to do. Those cultures can be built consciously or evolve inadvertently.You have to design strong self-esteem and the confidence that they can solve hard problems into your family's culture very early on. Like employees, children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

3) Avoid " just this once"
     How to live a life of integrity? Often when we need to choose between right or wrong, a voice in our head says, "Look, I know that as a general rule, most people shouldn't do this. But in this particular extenuating circumstance, just this once, it's OK." It's easier to hold to your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time. If you give in to "just this once", based on a marginal cost analysis, you'll regret where you end up. You've got to define for yourself what you stand for and draw  the line in a safe place.

4) Remember to be humble.
    If your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness to learn something from everybody, your learning will be unlimited. Generally you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself and want to help those around you feel good about themselves too.

5) Choose the right yardstick.
     Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have helped become better people. Think about metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

If you can follow all these step correctly, we should be able to have a balance life, a happy family and a good carrier as well, Insya-Allah..