This is one of the lessons taught by Buddha. May it be your everyday life or your business, thoughts become things and thus you are in more control than you would think. Your thinking determines your actions and your actions determine the/your outcome.
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All the world's a stage
“Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything,” the famous Sir Laurence Olivier once said. Change the utterer of the words and they will still turn out a generic and immutable truth, no matter the field you apply it to.
Even more decisive is reading it in the key of business, in its fullness. Goal oriented, selfish, competitive, bowing in front of the best puppet master, life is a stage and us all, actors in an endless play. We play for each other, we play for awards and reputations, sometimes forgetting who we truly are in the chase of a perpetual dream.
The same Oliver stated: “Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.” Again, is it theater or business?
We train day by day to become the perfect mélange between cold rationalization and powerful message, aware of the necessity of playing right our cards in order to have a successful business... Having a business plan (script), adapting to our audience (clients, partners, etc.), developing more than just an expected reaction (products, services), connecting in a dialog (directly or indirectly/ see PR, advertising), following nuanced indications from a powerful director (market changes, economic shifting, etc.), we are nothing more than actors on a stage...
Tired, happy or sad at the end of the day, cleaning off the glamorous make up, throwing away the wrinkled costumes (business suits) - just for the night - , we try to remember who we really are, what makes us tick, in which values we really believe. Maybe it’s not fashionable anymore to feel and have moral values, but King Theater shows teaches us that one must stand true to their beliefs in order to be complete, to understand that there is more to life than material accumulation.
In part it is true that you cannot do much or help anyone without access to material resources, but the difference stands in the reasons for which we do what we do everyday. Wealth is necessary, but not enough. If we are not motivated by desire to change something, to bring a smile instead of a frown, to heal, educate, support or protect talent... what will we leave behind?
Turning back to Sir Laurence Olivier, “I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.” May 2012 bring you health, wealth, abundance and prosperity, as well as confidence in yourselves and your values!
From all of us here at Business Arena, enjoy the quality, admire the value!
Even more decisive is reading it in the key of business, in its fullness. Goal oriented, selfish, competitive, bowing in front of the best puppet master, life is a stage and us all, actors in an endless play. We play for each other, we play for awards and reputations, sometimes forgetting who we truly are in the chase of a perpetual dream.
The same Oliver stated: “Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.” Again, is it theater or business?
We train day by day to become the perfect mélange between cold rationalization and powerful message, aware of the necessity of playing right our cards in order to have a successful business... Having a business plan (script), adapting to our audience (clients, partners, etc.), developing more than just an expected reaction (products, services), connecting in a dialog (directly or indirectly/ see PR, advertising), following nuanced indications from a powerful director (market changes, economic shifting, etc.), we are nothing more than actors on a stage...
Tired, happy or sad at the end of the day, cleaning off the glamorous make up, throwing away the wrinkled costumes (business suits) - just for the night - , we try to remember who we really are, what makes us tick, in which values we really believe. Maybe it’s not fashionable anymore to feel and have moral values, but King Theater shows teaches us that one must stand true to their beliefs in order to be complete, to understand that there is more to life than material accumulation.
In part it is true that you cannot do much or help anyone without access to material resources, but the difference stands in the reasons for which we do what we do everyday. Wealth is necessary, but not enough. If we are not motivated by desire to change something, to bring a smile instead of a frown, to heal, educate, support or protect talent... what will we leave behind?
Turning back to Sir Laurence Olivier, “I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.” May 2012 bring you health, wealth, abundance and prosperity, as well as confidence in yourselves and your values!
From all of us here at Business Arena, enjoy the quality, admire the value!
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