What is 360 Degree Success?
There are so many diverse ways in which people live today, but there is one theme that connects the lives of most people in our world - most of us want a better life.
We want to improve one aspect in particular or many aspects of our lives, achieving some type of “success” in an area we feel needs to be worked on.
360 Degree Success is about having a feeling of abundance and fulfillment in every area of your life. It’s about really living the life you were really meant to live. The life that a little voice inside of you is still yearning for…
The techniques of 360 Degree Success focus on four basic (yet profound) areas:
- Finding out who you really are:
- We have all be conditioned from a very early age by our parents, teachers, media, propaganda, traumatic situations, etc. to be a certain way-to act a certain way-to think a certain way.
- Who are we really beneath all of that conditioning?
- Who are we at our core, at our essence?
- Read the following posts to get started on this journey of exploration:
Are You Sure You Know What You Really Want?
How subliminal advertising makes you want things you don’t want
Ask yourself: “How did I get here?”
How your self-worth is defined for you (and what to do about it)
- Finding out what you really want:
- If we are really so conditioned, how do we know that what we think we want is what we really want?
- Have you ever wanted something really badly for a long time, and worked very hard to get it-but when you actually got it you realized that that thing really wasn’t that important and that it didn’t really make you happy?
- What do you do then? Do you just find something else to “want” and chase after?
- If we can discover what we really want-what will really make us happy-then we can be sure that we are moving in the right direction in life, towards 360 Degree Success.
- Read the following posts to learn more about this:
How To Define Your True Purpose and Passion in Life
How to look back on life and gain wisdom now…
- Finding out how to make it happen:
- Even when we do find out what we really want, it is not just going to come to us-we have to go out and get it.
- How do we create and maintain enough energy to “go the extra mile” to get what we want?
- How do we keep our focus, determination, and commitment?
- How do we overcome internal obstacles and fears that get in our way?
- Read the following posts to find out how:
7 Facts You Need to Know Before Using “The Secret” Law of Attraction
How to keep your energy high throughout the day
How to Overcome Negative Emotions
How to Overcome Negative Emotions (Part II)
- Having an incredible overall quality of life:
- Isn’t that what’s really important, anyway?
- Learn how to create abundance in health, wealth, love, happiness, time, wisdom, fulfillment, purpose, and spirituality.
- True holistic happiness that doesn’t require trade-offs (like money for time, etc.)
- Read more posts about creating this outstanding way of life:
Money Consciousness: Do you have any of the 5 Symptoms of Debt Overload?
A Week with True Wisdom- Dr. Dario Salas Sommer
Are you ready to break out of the routine and go for what you really want in life?
Are you ready to make your life into an adventure?
You are the hero of your own life story. What are you going to write on the next page?
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My Journey: The Beginning
Let me tell you why I am so passionate about living and teaching the principles of 360° Success.
This story nearly brings me to tears every time I think about it.
When I was in high school, I volunteered at a hospital in Massachusetts. My assignment was to visit people who were coming close to the end of their lives, and bring them some refreshments. Many of these people were very lonely in their last days, and were really happy to have anyone—even someone they didn’t know really well—sit with them and talk for a while.
I was amazed at how much these people would open up to me, even though I was only a seventeen year-old boy at the time. I would sit and listen to many, many people who wanted to share their life experiences with me. I realized that, at the end of life, everyone wants to pass something meaningful on to someone, to anyone — to be remembered — and for those people at that hospital in Massachusetts, that someone was me.
As I sat down and got to know each person one by one, I began to recognize a disturbing pattern. Each person would tell the story of his or her life, and each life story had a strangely similar ring to it.
One person would look me in the eyes and tell me, “I had hopes and dreams to become something when I was young like you, but then I had kids and I gave up all of my dreams to take care of them. Whatever you do, don’t give up your dreams for your children.” The look of regret that I saw in that person’s eyes made me extremely uncomfortable.
And someone else would say to me as they told their life story, “I had hopes and dreams to become something important in life, to change things, but I gave them all up when I got busier and busier at my stable, well-paying job. I’m not sure what happened. I guess I just got comfortable. Whatever you do, don’t give up your dreams for your job. Don’t forget your dreams, son.”
I spoke to another person, and another, and another, each filled with regret about how they had lived their lives. Yes, they had good families and good jobs and nice houses and social standing, yet each one was deeply pained with the realization that they had given up something special about themselves, in order to meet some obligation or another during their lives. And each was sure that if they had to do it all again, they would do things differently.
The worst part about this was the feeling that there was nothing I could do to help them. And that there was nothing they could do to help themselves – they were out of time. What they most wanted to do was to convince me not to make the same mistakes they felt they had made.
And I listened to them, as they spoke to me passionately about themselves and their lives. I made a silent but solemn oath to myself that I was NOT going to die with the types on regrets that I was hearing from those people in the hospital.
They were good people, who had led good lives. It was a shame for them to die with so much regret.
I began a journey to discover a way to live my life to the fullest, to find a way to comprehend what my true purpose in life was, and to dedicate my life to attaining it. To make sure that I come to the end of my life feeling that I have “given it my all,” and to have no regrets. This book is a culmination of much of what I have learned so far.
So many people come to the end of their lives, and only realize then, when it’s too late, that they never really lived at all – they survived, they existed – but they had not actively “lived” the life they determined to live.
Don’t let that happen to you.
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