![]() “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Why wouldn’t you want to do the same – except this time with a bigger pay off? You’re already devoting effort and practice in various areas of your life. The process of cultivating deep habits takes time, effort and practice. ![]() Here I define success as achieving excellence that aligns with your values. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu This image shows the major important areas of your life that you need to create strong, deeply rooted habits in if you want to find the most happiness and success in your life. They have, over time and a great number of small actions, built habits that are so fixed, that no one would even try to challenge them. Happy, healthy and successful people, like the mature tree, have grown deep roots in the important areas of their life. There was no way he could pull the tree from the ground by himself.Īfter staring at the tree for a few minutes, trying to infer the lesson he might be learning. The birch tree his teacher had pointed to was easily ten times as tall as the young man. The teacher pointed to the growth he wanted removed. The master then asked his pupil to pull one final tree from the ground. After great effort, the young man was finally able to dislodge it. When tugging failed, the student found some sticks and rocks to loosen the ground around the tree. One that had time to grow nearly as tall as the young man. The teacher then asked the boy to uproot a more mature tree. With a harder tug, the student made quick work of that tree as well. The Buddhist master then asked his student to uproot a slightly larger tree, a knee-heigh sapling. Knowing of his teachers roundabout teaching methods (they’d had an interesting cup of tea the week before), the young man followed the instructions… easily pulling the ankle high shoot from the ground. The teacher requested that he pull a small sapling from the ground. The young man approached the Buddhist master open to any new lessons he must learn that day. A young Buddhist was walking home when he saw his teacher sitting in a grove.
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