Mentoring Overview Full Service Mentoring One-on-One Retreats E-Mentoring   Home About Us About Phil Baldey Not Us Core Values Client Profile World According to Phil Pay Invoices Refunds Policy Contact Us   Choosing a Mentor Logo Significance Phil Baldey Interview My Rules Snapshot of Baaldi.com PDF of Baaldi.com Search Staying in a situation that you do not want to be in is sheer prostitution. The payback is not worth it.		The more I learn, the less I know   The first of the ‘Four Noble Truths’       The first of the ‘Four Noble Truths’ 12 June 2003 The first of the ‘Four Noble Truths’ taught by Buddha was ‘Life is Suffering’. Having accepted this philosophy, life tends thereafter to be easy in comparison as the very acceptance of this makes suffering ‘normal’. The reality that life is difficult from this perspective, is therefore meaningless. I am happily selfish. This word is often seen in a negative vein, however I consider it an amazingly positive word. By being selfish, I mean giving to yourself before you give to others. There is little point in a lifesaver endeavouring to rescue a struggling swimmer if they do not have the energy to carry it off, no benefit if the breadwinner gives the family an opulent lifestyle and dies early from the effort required to do so, nothing achieved by the breastfeeding mother trying to feed a child who she has no milk for. If we nurture ourselves in the first instance, we then have something to give. My view is that we are products of our genes and environment, with a spiritual component. There is little point blaming any one of these for our current situation, our situation is what it is. However we can tap into any of these areas to advance from where we find ourselves. Too often we battle with the environment we find ourselves in rather than look at tapping in to our potential to rise above it. In the human pursuit to meet the needs of ego, the primaries of life are being coveted as prize possessions for those who ‘own’ them to manipulate and allocate as they see fit. Water is being privatised, food is changing its very constitutional structure, fuel and power are being controlled in such a way as to ensure that the consumer cannot economically produce their own, health education promotes cures in the realm of pharmaceuticals and vaccines rather than prevention and natural immunity, and social structures are being radically altered by social engineering and the lack of unbiased reporting. We are starting to live in an ever increasing vacuum where we stand the chance that we may very likely lose our freedom of thought, or at very least, our freedom to speak. I encourage you to be selfish, question who you are and question what you are told. Be true to yourself and enjoy freedom. Business is really simple. We tend to make it too complex. We endeavour to do everything rather than observing the key fundamentals. We hold strong to what we know and ignore what we don’t understand or fear. By becoming the trouble shooters in our own business we get immersed, this immersion often negating any objectivity we once had. Once the business, or the demands imposed on ourselves by the business, become onerous we may find ourselves either wanting to fight the company, and our existence related to it, or alternatively the desire to run away from it. Neither of these strategies is likely to offer long lasting satisfaction. Sure, beat the company into shape if required, quit if needed. Just make sure that the next venture (or relationship) that you embark on does not have the same hallmarks!       back to the top