IV. What is our access to being Happy and Fulfilled?

Write down 3 instances when you felt happy in the last one week.

Test the hypothesis that you felt happy because in each of these instances you experienced growth – physical, energy, emotional, physical, spiritual, well-being, relationship, business, financial or some other experience of progress in your life.

Growth is our access to being happy and fulfilled.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
- Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor, Author - Man's Search for Meaning, one of the key figures in existential therapy.

Do not confuse Ease and Grace with being in your Comfort Zone. Ease and Grace means being ease and grace outside your Comfort Zone. 

Growth exists only outside our Comfort Zone. In our Comfort Zone, lies mediocrity and a deadening of the life force in us.

Our access to happiness and fulfilment is through growth - personal, professional, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. 

Therefore, our happiness and fulfilment lies outside our Comfort Zone.

Living Beings are designed for growth. If a plant is not growing, it is dying. So, it is with human beings.

If we are not growing, we are dying. Our physical body may take longer to disintegrate but without growth and the challenges that come along with that; our heart, mind, body, soul die a slow death. To be on a lifelong journey of learning, and growth as an outcome of that is our human design.

Therefore, we maximise our Happiness and Fulfilment, when we maximise our Growth.

Maximising our Growth is also called Achieving our Highest Potential.

Who defines and limits our Highest Potential - we do that through our Dreams. 

Bigger, Crazier, Impossible, Unimaginable our dreams; greater the growth available to us as we play to realize our dreams; greater our Potential we fulfil. 

How do we measure how much of our potential we have fulfilled? We can measure how much of  our potential we have fulfilled by the quantum of positive impact we have created in the world through our work by living our Purpose on the spiritual playground of our Business.

Our potential is limitless. The growth available to us is limitless. The positive impact we can create is limitless.

This is the Good to Great journey we are on, our Hero's journey to - Dream Big. Learn Big. Create Big. Impact Big. Grow Big. Happiness Big. Fulfilment Big. Joy Big.

Wealth and Success is a by-product of this journey, not the reason for the journey, because wealth and success is a measure of the positive impact we are creating in the world through our work. 

When we go on our Hero's journey, we change the DNA of the human race which is about being content with mediocrity and comfort-zones; transforming what it means to be a human being; gifting ourselves and our children with a new way of Being, a Space of Grace within and a beautiful Brave New World to live in.

Continue walking forward, one tiny step at a time, on your Hero's journey to lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

The striving and struggling for some goal worthy of us is the fun and adventure part of our journey 💜