Spirituality

Learn The 9 Acts Of The Wise To Reign Your Destiny

Intelligence, smartness, and wisdom are different. Only wisdom will yield life-long success

Can you make the right decisions in your life? If not, what is keeping you?

Is it possible to see things as they are and avoid acting with your impulses?

How can you do the right thing, even someone hurts you?

How many times have you decided on the action and ended up with procrastination? Did you feel the suffering and regret for not adhering to your values?

Have you ever recognized how your noble actions hurt the people around you, even your beloved ones, because of your emotional self-righteousness?

Why can’t you stick to your life-changing plans and be a slave of your mental and physical resistance? What is preventing you?

Have you evert recognized how unconscious your reactions were to external stimuli?

When was the last time that the never-ending battle between your mind and heart depleted your life force?

All of these are normal and make you a human. Everyone goes through them. You cannot experience being a human without emotions. In line with the cosmic principle of polarity, strong emotions can both enslave and free you. The emotional attachment creates an obsession with the conditions, situations, and people around you. Fear creates attachments. On the other hand, love is a positive emotion that will set you free from your attachments.

There is a watch out, however. Love can also end up with an addiction and obsession with your beloved ones. Therefore, the middle way is the path to wisdom. It is about inner balance in our emotional realm, prudence in behaviors, and harmony with the universe.

I will summarize how to respond to the VUCA life in a unique way, as you will read below. Each bullet from ONE to NINE unveils a series of actions in response to the external world we live in. The part cannot be separate from the whole, we, humans, cannot be separate from the world and cosmos we live in.

I intentionally split each bullet as philosophy and action to show the optimum response to life’s gifts and challenges.

1. TRUTH — See the world as it is.

Philosophy — The universe exists as it is. Every phoneme exists neutrally. Everything is neutral until you perceive them with the 5 senses and label in light of your mental programming. Everyone has a different meaning and perceive the same object in a different way. Something that makes you angry may not make another person feel the same. Your mental programming is the source of your responses to external stimuli.

Truth is the non-changeable reality of the existence in the cosmos, while the reality is a personal perception of the Truth.

Actions

• Never ever make assumptions. Instead, ask to learn more.
• Listen to various ideas and points of views before making a final decision
• Be ready to challenge what you know in light of new facts and pieces of evidence
• Listen to your heart as the mind cannot discern the Truth at all times.

2. REALITY

Philosophy — Now that you are aware of how mental programming creates your meaning, it will not be early to say that there is one ABSOLUTE REALITY, called the Truth, and our perceptions create our personal reality.

Actions

• Accept and embrace the differences and diversity in life
• Listen to and learn from different people from different cultures to expand your consciousness
• Travel the world to leave your comfort zones
• Have a positive doubt to challenge everything you think you know.
• Never ever accept dogma and bigotry
• Read philosophy to stretch your mental limits

3. GOOD JUDGMENT

Philosophy — The existence of duality and rhythm force everything in the cosmos to change and evolve — everything changes. Nothing stays the same. The mind labels external stimuli coming from situations and people around us and make a judgment to determine a course of action. Judgment is vital to take action because you want to survive. Survival is about being successful against resistance and obstacles. Even the animals make decisions to survive, but humans take into account values, ethics, and virtues when making decisions because that is what makes us a true human.

Actions

• Never ever judge anyone with your strong emotions. Look at things from multiple perspectives
• Try to understand the process behind what happened. See the cause and effect instead of judging
• Never generalize. People change. Situations change. Life cannot be formulated with a list of controllable factors
• Ask probing questions in a compassionate way to unveil the truth behind the veils of reality
• Even when you find an answer you do not like, accept it with compassion
• Accept the existence of good and evil, right and wrong in the world, and do not get stuck with what you see. What you see may not be the hidden Truth

4. RIGHT DECISION

Philosophy — A decision is an idea or a strategy to take action. It is the seed of action.

Actions

• Find out the things that fall within your span of control and the ones inside your span of influence. Focus on the first one
• Define what is urgent and important
• Prioritize
• Know your values and decide accordingly
• Always strive to do the right thing. Never compromise
• Know your goals and targets. Develop a mission, vision, and values list
• Evaluate your resources and reprioritize if needed
• Never make fast decisions in times of major changes
• If you get stuck among conflicting priorities, make sure you refer to your heart
• Develop a contingency plan

5. RIGHT ACTION

Philosophy — The principle of cause & effect in the cosmos requires action to any stimuli. Action requires a brave step to realize an action. It is the flower of a decision.

Actions

• Know your limits as well as your strengths.
• Act with the courage to realize your plans and dreams.
• Manage your strong emotions
• Remember that everyone fears but the brave are the ones who control their fears
• Do not rely solely on strength and power. Blend power and compassion like a bird using the two wings to fly

6. RIGHT EXECUTION

Philosophy — You need to know how to surf the harsh waters of life to steer towards your destination. It requires a strategy and a tactical plan with the right leaders and followers in charge, ready to do whatever it takes to succeed while doing the right thing at all times.

Actions

• Translate goals into S.M.A.R.T. deliverables and align with any stakeholders with mutual consent and consensus
• Make sure you have a plan showing the resources, milestones, and deliverables
• Develop a sensitivity analysis of your plan to cope with changing factors.
• Establish a work-life balance to keep your mind calm and serene
• Trust the process and the people
• Empower and delegate so that you can have time to monitor and steer
• Let mistakes happen but learn from them to avoid future mistakes
• Have common problem-solving tools in your toolkit

7. SUSTAINABILITY

Philosophy — nothing lasts forever in the world, and every action is subject to many tests. The spirit of time will call for change, and you have to be ready to adapt.

Actions

• Spend time every day to learn by reading, watching podcasts and etc.
• Have a coach and a mentor
• Surround yourself with people who will speak the Truth at your face no matter how angry you may get
• Surround yourself with people better than you. Learn from them,
• Establish a speaking culture where the idea of everyone counts and is rewarded
• Learn from your mistakes and integrate lessons learned to your actions
• Benchmark the best around you and adapt
• Watch the trends
• boost innovation by setting the minds free and empowering others
• Let people make mistakes and learn from them.
• Let people be extraordinary
• Communicate the vision, mission, and value frequently and have champions around you who will carry the flag without you.
• invest in human capital and train them to be ready
• develop agility
• Establish great systems and procedures but be flexible to change them as well

8. ADAPTABILITY

Philosophy — Adaptability is the ability to make rapid changes in our course. It is beyond sustainability. Lack of adaptability was the reason why Titanic hit the iceberg and sunk

Actions

• Create self-reliant teams and organizations in your company
• Train yourself every day
• Have rituals to remind you of your vision, mission, values, personality, strengths, weaknesses, pains, and improvement actions.
• Focus on evolution not revolution
• Be ready for the ambiguity.

9. HARMONY WITH THE UNIVERSE

Philosophy — Life is bigger than all of us. We make plans, and God laughs at that. We cannot plan for things in life, no matter how perfect we thought our strategy was. Earthquakes, cosmic events, economic shocks, pandemics, and more are only a few examples from a long list of things that may happen beyond our control. No matter how good a system, people will always find new ways to penetrate through just like water infiltrating through the cracks and blowing the rocks.

Actions

• Develop SQ — spiritual quotient. Know the meaning of life and cosmos so that you can embrace and accept the unexpected
• Remember the one that makes plans beyond all worldly plans.
• Have faith in life. It will show you the way.
• Believe that there is always a better version of you, and whatever is happening is to help you reach it.
• Have faith in divine justice. It is there and works in miraculous ways beyond human understanding.
• Be with the flow and stop trying to control everything. Plan less, live more.
• Know and act by your values and virtue.

Follow those, and you will attract happiness and success to your life.

Cheers,

Kenan

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