Ladder of Horizon and the River of time.

Ladder of Horizon and the River of Time.

Picture yourself you are in the river of time which has different levels of calm and turbulence. If you are born into the turbulence zone, just like your parents did or you somehow fall into it, you will have to struggle and put efforts to stay afloat. If you are in the middle zone where you have sometime turbulence and sometime calm, you get to work and relax sometime. If you are born in the calm where you can stay afloat without putting efforts. Since every single one of us is in this metaphoric river and we can see everyone’s status, we all know where everyone is. So struggle begins for most of us, if you are in the turbulence you want to get to the neighboring calm and  turbulence zone. When you reach there, its a given that you would want to get to the calm zone. Our focus makes the calm a destination, so everyone strives to get there regardless of the price or mortal nature. Since our focus has the potential to make us forget the mortality we end up paying a heavy price of losing happiness and contentment necessary for a mortal to accumulate. A mortal individual should have one goal and that is to obtain as much happiness as possible before passing on. Yet we come in this life and get caught up in day today life so badly that we put our life on a literal hold. Our hopes and desires become too powerful to handle, so we struggle to get to the calm area of the river at all price and forget about our mortal nature, and spiritually get lost which cost us later in life.

Regardless of your placing in the river, if you find out that you have got six months to live, everything will come crashing down and your whole life will change. So as a CEO of your life you have the responsibility to make decisions and choices along the way but keeping your mortality in front. If you choose to seek calm zone of the river as a destination you would just make your life limited to certain department. As a CEO who is able to see their life as a business project with several departments, you would not neglect happiness and contentment. You would choose to be happy and hopeful in all kind of circumstances or the turbulence of life. That means you would understand life at spiritual level. When the time comes to leave it all behind, you will have the satisfaction that you have done the best you could in accumulating  happiness and contentment.
Since I am a personal trainer, by no means am I preaching complacency. I expect from myself and my clients to do better than they have done previously, so I tell them about my metaphoric ladder of horizon.

 Inspiration along with appreciation.
Say you are climbing a ladder with a lot of people above you, you work hard to climb, may be too slow for you but if you are slowly climbing one step at a time you are still climbing. Even its slow but if it still moving upwards it is still acceptable, but there comes a time. No matter what strategy you use or how hard you try you just can’t climb any more simply because you are stuck. You get frustrated and angry but no go, that is where you lose happiness and contentment of your life. When you are there where you have lost happiness, now is the time to look down and see how many millions of people want to be at your spot where you already are yet you are still unhappy. This is where spirituality come to put things in perspectives so look up and compare with the people above you but in spiritually healthy manors and get inspired by their success. Look down and appreciate what you have in your life so you can be open to happiness and contentment. Never to forget your temporary nature of visit because the kicker is that no matter how high or how low you are on this ladder you will fall off the ladder because of your individual mortality. Yet the ladder and the people above or below would go on as if the ladder is a ladder of horizon which has no end.
Now whether it is a river or a ladder, you as a CEO have the responsibility to live your life according to the bitter reality of mortality. If you choose the calm as a destination do so but not at all cost and remember it is hard to leave behind, what you have been working so hard for all your life.