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#69 The Full Stack Human
5 years ago I found myself at the pinnacle of my corporate career, yet I never felt more disconnected from what it means to be truly alive.
I had chased “success” for a decade, and it left me empty.
So much so that the single greatest message I wish I could give to my 20 year old self is that my version of success is a lie.
Yours probably is too.
We’re all influenced by society around us.
Even if we say, “success is being with my family.”
And I said, “well you could do that today, but are you willing to give up your:
home
car
status
big screen TV??
Those are all markers of society’s version of success, that you cling to.
From an early age we’re taught to succeed at external things.
Don’t get me wrong, learning to grind, crush goals and win are important.
We are programmed to seek measurable outcomes.
Get the grades
Do the volunteer work to round our your college applications
Optimize your SAT scores
Get into Harvard
Get the good job
Buy the big house
Get the country club
We become robots, on the march to the next “thing”.
In chasing “success” we forget what it is to just be human.
I feel like my struggles have been about getting back to just being a person.
I don’t want to just succeed at some line of work that no one will remember.
I don’t want to just save for retirement that might not ever come.
I don’t want to be one dimensional.
I want to be a Full Stack Human.
What does that mean?
Thrive in all areas of life.
Consciously experience and live in each area.
Participate, shape, create and enjoy all areas of life.
What are the areas of life am I training?
I’m learning that everything flows from energy. The work to understand what affects my energy level and how to calibrate it compounds through all areas of life.
Creative Flow
Humans are creative beings. Yes. Even if you don’t think you have a creative bone in your body, take stock of your energy when you’re solving a problem. How do you feel? Pretty, pretty, pretty good as Larry David would say.
When I’m creative I have more energy in all other aspects of my life.
I’m happy at work
Help my kids problem solve
More passionate with my wife
And just plain more fun to be around.
Creativity was the #1 reason I needed to get out of corporate work. Nothing I did there was mine, and whatever we did that was creative quickly got suffocated by the beurocrocy.
2. Powerful Health
When I’m healthy I feel invincible. When I”m not healthy, I”m lathargic, quit easily and don’t have the energy to start or the will to continue.
I think about this: someday my body won’t be able to move the way I want it to. So right now, I choose to move it.
This makes me more mindful and appreciative of my physicality.
That statement hits me every time I’m in an elevator or see an escalator. I’ll always try to take the stairs.
Mental and emotional health are the same way. We have to use them cul
3. Present Relationships
Presence is the greatest give you can give an other person.
My kids are the driving force in my life. They are happy when I am present, and we have deeper, more lasting experiences.
This means, we have rules for when and how I work and use my phone when around them.
But I want deep presence with all my relationships. Sometimes its very tough, so I”m working on:
Just listening
Giving full attention
Looking at people in the eye
Putting my phone down
Because my goal is deep relationships, not distracted sound bites from real life.
4. Unbreakable Spirit
Being human is hard. You need an unbreakable spirit to stay in the game and keep fighting even when you don’t want to. I belive in spirituality. You have to have some faith in the unknown. If you don’t you can’t move forward, because everything in the future is by definition unknown. You only can look backwards at what was.
To tackle any journey you must do the work to build an unbreakable spirit. This is what we do in our community ever single week.
5. Abundant Finances
Yes, I believe finances matter, but only as a tool. A tool for freedom, security and as a way of keeping score (if you need that).
Having money makes most things easier, however using money properly is another skill in and of itself.
I want abundant finances to give my kids optionality, and to give me the freedom to once again change direction in the future (because, knowing me, that day is coming).
This is what being a full stack human is to me:
Creative Flow
Powerful Health
Present Relationships
Unbreakable Spirit
AbundantFinances
What does it mean to you? Let me know, and I hope you join us in the Unbreakable community soon.
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