Leaving the rat race

Currently I am marketing the ‘Be At Your Best’ High Performance Culture Shaping program. This takes me to manufacturing sites all around the Klang Valley. As I wait to see the bosses, I look around and watch employees being busy at work, feeling very important. Clocking in faithfully and in routine. Their lives revolving around the company they work for. The world outside their company does not exist for them. A few days annual leave aside, their time and soul sold to the company they work for in return for the security of a fixed monthly income. I take a deep breath in, thinking ‘how many years of my life have I done that too?’

Someone once told me Industrialisation is modern day slavery and at that time I thought that was a too extreme view point. However, now, I watch similar patterns in employees and standing in the outside, looking at the bigger picture of life, I began to realise how true that is. A vast majority of people trade their most essential commodities ; time, energy and ideas for an exchange of a safe and comfortable living. When in essence there is not much living outside of work at the company.

Be At Your Best Corporate Program to raise awareness on the bigger picture of life

The difference?

One group of aimless dejected people wasting their potential because they are too comfortable to step out of their comfort zone. The helplessness and unappreciated feeling turns into dissatisfaction and anger towards co-workers and management. They are unhappy and make others around them unhappy too. This is carried forward into their personal lives. They feel trapped in the lives that they are in with family and financial responsibilities and end up being bitter.

Then there is the other group, ambitious, giving their best and rising up the corporate ladder. They feel appreciated, important and indispensable. Spending most of their working hours, energy and thoughts at work neglecting family and more importantly personal time. Neglecting the voices of their hearts. They actually think the company will collapse without them and prioritise work at the company above family and themselves. One day when they retire or is asked to leave the company or the position for some untoward reasons, they end up devastated and empty.  The company on the other hand, or rather the bosses and other employees, will struggle for a few days, reorganise or find a replacement and move on without you. If you come back a month later, you will be surprised how life in the company has moved on without you. A year later? You would have become a distant memory, a part of history only a handful still remembering you with fondness.

Be At Your Best Corporate Program - how do you play the game of your life?

Either way life passes by without you even getting a hint of the real purpose you came here on earth. You end up following the system, going to school, getting a job, getting married, having kids, buying a car, buying a house and a few more …  working harder to pay it off. Then one day you wake up and it’s all in the past, kids grown-up and flown off, retired from the company you worked for, relationships with spouse and family members on tolerance basis and you ask yourself “what is the purpose of my life? I came here for mere maintenance of life?” But, by then, the voice of your heart is so distant and muted that you no longer can hear it. Even if you can still hear the whispers of your heart, you would have run out of time and energy.

Be At Your Best  - are your thoughts, words and actions aligned?

When I explain to people about what the Be At Your Best program does .. it is time for oneself to connect to their hearts, understand Nature’s Laws and reflect on their thoughts, words and actions, understand what is blocking the happiness, health and wealth their heart desires, many are interested. They are fascinated when I share my journey and that of others. However, when I ask if they would like to join the program, most will reply they don’t have the time…. Work and family commitment take priority. Even, attending friends and relatives wedding, going for holidays take priority over spending time for themselves. Time to reflect, contemplate and discover themselves. Time for checking the bearings and correcting the course if needed. Time to see the bigger picture and set the direction of the course of their lives. As I hear these excuses again and again, I smile to myself and think “if only they knew what they just passed on for mere maintenance of life”.

Be At Your Best July 2015 Public Program - listening to your heart

Leaving you with a quote from Steve Jobs ;

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”― Steve Jobs

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