How Well Do You Manage Yourself?

“There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.” -Chuck Tanner

Managing Yourself

In business we all know that management is everything. If you don’t manage your resources properly your business won’t succeed, it’s as simple as that.

In business, we put systems in place and train our human capital to manage and execute the systems. If our systems are efficient and our training is adequate, usually the outcome is a desirable one.

Needless to say we spend a tremendous amount of time and energy learning to manage our surroundings.

Unfortunately, we live in a world that is dominated by commerce, by economics, our lives are dictated by it, and with time we end up forgetting to manage the most important thing, which is managing ourselves.

Trying to manage the outside world without managing ourselves is surely a recipe for disaster.

To be more specific managing our inner selves, many of us do not understand what that even means, that it’s necessary. We are not aware of how our own systems that exist within us work.

Many people have become great managers in their external worlds and have become quite successful because of it, but without proper inner management, many come to suffer from their success. This is very sad because success in this world does not come easily.

I just want you to take some time to ponder over the following question. Has your happiness gone up or down as you have gotten older? In the last 24 hours, how many happy moments are you able to recall?

If you can’t think of many, this just means you’re having bad inner management. This should be a wake-up call because when you look at everything we do in life, it is done in the pursuit of happiness. Which will mean something different for everyone depending on the stage of development he finds himself at.

Somewhere deep down we believe that if we can manage our family, our careers, and our finances, it will bring us happiness, a deep fulfillment.

Managing Yourself Effectively

So what does being a good inner manager mean? It means learning to manage your body, mind, emotions, and energies. If you don’t have inner management you are managing your outside world purely by accident, there is no real meaningful intent behind your actions.

When you manage situations as an accident, you exist as an accident, and anxiousness then becomes a natural part of your life.

One is not stressed because of what we are doing, but because we are bad managers of ourselves.

Everyone believes their job is stressful, stress is not the nature of the job. If you don’t have control over your systems you will be stressed no matter what it is you find yourself doing.

The systems we need to manage are our body, mind, emotions, and energies. Just like any business properly managing these systems requires diligent research and development.

What makes a good manager in a business? The person usually has a great understanding of the essential aspects of the business, its operations, and most importantly its employees. He knows his employees’ strengths, weaknesses, personality, and generally has built some good rapport with them. Many of us fail to take the same penetrating look inside ourselves to understand how we work and then learn to manage ourselves accordingly.

If you manage yourself properly, you will rise to your true potential.

All that matters is that with whatever you are doing you put your whole heart into it, it then becomes beautiful because our heart is in it. You will be able to put your heart into anything once your systems are operating in harmony when you understand each part and the role it plays in your life.

So now it’s time you take a penetrating look, do you really know how good a shape your body is in? Do you really understand your emotions and the role they play in your life? How about your mind, do you understand your thinking process and how it affects your life? How about your energies, do you know how to summon and keep your energies abundant so you can respond to life with actions that are total?

If you are not satisfied with your life most likely you have let these systems run unconsciously, they are not communicating with each other, and they have become corrupted. They are all pursuing their own agendas and usually going in opposite directions, leaving you scattered, frustrated, anxious, and powerless.

You need to start infusing your life with awareness and take conscious control over your systems, start the process of understanding all the aspects of your being, and get them back in alignment. Once you start getting yourself aligned you will take control of your life.

Inner management is essential to life management. It’s your responsibility to learn to manage yourself, blaming and complaining about the outside world will get you nowhere.

It’s never too late to enroll in the school of life, the lessons are endless and once you understand the basics (body, emotions, mind, energies) It won’t be long before you receive your Master’s in yourself.

Once you know yourself at a deep level you will know everything worth knowing. Godspeed my friend.

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