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Overview

In this post we explore a way of looking at your life that will help you to gain wholeness. Life as many parts and this is just one way of thinking about them. Within this view is that we find harmony in life through the correct ordering of things. People are made up of four aspects all of which are interdependant: body, heart, mind and soul.

How are we put together?

There is an approach to life that can help build happiness and success. It finds its roots in many of the major world religions and in ancient western thought and is also grounded in modern approaches to life management.

We are made up from four different aspects. These four combine to make the whole of who we are. Within life we should seek harmony within our self. Harmony is about achieving balance through everything being in its rightful place. However each aspect of life seeks to be dominant and will take control if allowed to do so. It is up to us to maintain control within ourselves.

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I’ve never found it easy to make presentations. There are always thousands of things to remember and lots of ways of getting things wrong. It’s hard to get it right. Then of course you have to think about those things in front of other people and it doesn’t matter how hard you try it always feels like they are going to laugh at your mistakes and think you are a fool.

One of the things I learned early on is to make mistakes confidently even if you don’t feel confident. There is a good chance that you are the only one who knows exactly how things are supposed to go so when you forget something you are the only person who knows that. When you carry on confidently nobody is any the wiser to your gaff.

Then again if you handle mistakes confidently people tend not to mind so much. What they don’t want is a presenter who is going to make them feel uncomfortable. If you show confidence when something goes wrong then they will have confidence in you to put it right.

So even if your knees are knocking and you have just make your third mistake act as though you are confident and nobody will mind.