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When Success is Not Enough
This book has been translated by Dar Elfarouk
More and more people are finding that material success has not brought them the happiness and fulfilment that they expected it to.
Having spent years becoming ‘successful’ – yes, perhaps they now have the big salary, the house, the car, the 2.4 kids – such people now catch themselves reflecting on all they have achieved and thinking, ‘Is this it?’
‘Is this all there is?’ ‘Is this as good as life gets?’
This book catches the mood of the moment. Readers will discover how to: find out what they really want, and discover their unique purpose; break down their goals into achievable chunks, and overcome the obstacles they might meet along the way; most importantly of all, get real happiness and fulfilment from their successes; Other books cover these individual areas.
This book is unique in that it covers all three areas – because a goal has no value without a purpose, and success without fulfilment is failure.
The question to be asked, then, is this: How can the quest for wealth, fame and success be combined with the pursuit of happiness? I’m not sure there’s a foolproof answer. But there are some useful guides. Here are four of the most important.
–Try to combine the pursuit of wealth with creativity. Clever manipulation of bits of paper and values may make you a billionaire, but creating a successful business, expressed in solid objects (factories, offices, docks and facilities, things of bricks and mortar and concrete) or in real estate (in lands and plantations) is more conducive to happiness. To make something–something real, visible, fruitful and productive–where once there was nothing is a fine expression of one of the deepest and healthiest human instincts.
–A successful man is likely to find happiness in producing something useful or delightful or beautiful. I’ve found this to be true myself in producing books–more than 40 at last count–some more than 1,000 pages and some with superb illustrations. My accolades I share with my publishers and printers.
When Success is Not Enough
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