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Four Quadrants of Life


Four Quadrants of Life

Personal Excellence: Values


Personal Excellence is:
  • A resonance of your Values
  • A reflection of your Attitude and Habits
  • A manifestation of your Health and Wellbeing
  • A resultant of your Competencies and Capabilities

At all points of time and every minute of your life you should build and reinforce your personal excellence.


Values:

Your values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live and work. They (should) determine your priorities, and deep down, they’re probably the measures you use to tell if your life is turning out the way you want it to.

Personal Excellence: Attitude and Habits


Personal Excellence is:
  • A resonance of your Values
  • A reflection of your Attitude and Habits
  • A manifestation of your Health and Wellbeing
  • A resultant of your Competencies and Capabilities

At all points of time and every minute of your life you should build and reinforce your personal excellence.


Attitude and Habits:

Attitude: A feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused by this.

Habbits: A thing that you do often and almost without thinking, especially something that is hard to stop doing.

Personal Excellence: Health and Wellbeing


Personal Excellence is:
  • A resonance of your Values
  • A reflection of your Attitude and Habits
  • A manifestation of your Health and Wellbeing
  • A resultant of your Competencies and Capabilities

At all points of time and every minute of your life you should build and reinforce your personal excellence.


Health and Wellbeing:

The Constitution of the World Health Organization, which came into force on April 7, 1948, defined health “as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.

Personal Excellence: Competencies and Capabilities


Personal Excellence is:
  • A resonance of your Values
  • A reflection of your Attitude and Habits
  • A manifestation of your Health and Wellbeing
  • A resultant of your Competencies and Capabilities

At all points of time and every minute of your life you should build and reinforce your personal excellence.


Competencies and Capabilities:

Competencies: The quality or state of having sufficient knowledge, judgement, skill, or strength. Competence (in something) competence (in doing something) the ability to do something well.

Capabilities: Making competency effective in delivering results in the targeted field.

Skills vs Competencies vs Capabilities: Painting is a skill. Painting with Expertise in mixing of non-fading colors, lasting colors and correct luminescence is a competence. Ability to paint on large canvas, portraits is a capability.

Professional Success: Value Add / Impact


Professional Success is:
  • Impact of your Value Addition to the entity you are part of
  • A derivative of your Deep Domain Expertise and Future Ready Skills
  • Measured by your Financial Stability and Work Life Balance
  • Potential of Lateral Growth and flexibility for Career Change

Value Add / Impact:

Your personal excellence should translate to your professional success.

Professional Success: Deep Expertise / Future Ready


Professional Success is:
  • Impact of your Value Addition to the entity you are part of
  • A derivative of your Deep Domain Expertise and Future Ready Skills
  • Measured by your Financial Stability and Work Life Balance
  • Potential of Lateral Growth and flexibility for Career Change

Deep Expertise / Future Ready:

Deep Expertise: Full grasp and command of a subject or domain – understand the 5W1H of all aspects of a domain or function.

Future Ready: Keeping your expertise relevant in times ahead or developing expertise relevant to future.

Professional Success: Financial Stability and WLB


Professional Success is:
  • Impact of your Value Addition to the entity you are part of
  • A derivative of your Deep Domain Expertise and Future Ready Skills
  • Measured by your Financial Stability and Work Life Balance
  • Potential of Lateral Growth and flexibility for Career Change

Financial Stability and WLB:

Financial Stability: Financial Stability is ability to pay for expenses or taking care of obligations - despite hardships and unexpected vagaries of life like a job loss, or a large, unexpected expense.

WLB: Work Life Balance is feeling fulfilled and content in both areas of Work and Life - A healthy balance might look like: meeting your deadlines at work while still having time for friends and hobbies. having enough time to sleep properly and eat well.

Professional Success: Flexibility and Lateral Growth


Professional Success is:
  • Impact of your Value Addition to the entity you are part of
  • A derivative of your Deep Domain Expertise and Future Ready Skills
  • Measured by your Financial Stability and Work Life Balance
  • Potential of Lateral Growth and flexibility for Career Change

Flexibility and Lateral Growth:

Flexibility: Career Flexibility refers to ability to move from one job to another, to gain the skills, experience and knowledge required to progress upwards or in horizontal levels in new domains.

Lateral Growth: Lateral Growth is rock climbing and not ladder climbing in conventional career mobility.

Leave a Lasting Legacy: Family and Friends


Leave a Lasting Legacy is:
  • Memories of love and belongingness to Family and Friends
  • Legacy begins with your Community
  • Your contribution to your Subject Matter Expertise
  • Legacy to Nature and Environment is your beholden duty

Legacy is something that somebody has done successfully and that has positive effects even after they retire or die. Leaving a legacy is planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. Heritage refers to material and economical inheritance, while legacy refers to immaterial and cultural inheritance.


Family and Friends:

Family: Family isn't always blood and genes. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.

Friends: Friends are persons with whom there is mutual - Like, Trust and admiration.

Leave a Lasting Legacy: Contribution to Community


Leave a Lasting Legacy is:
  • Memories of love and belongingness to Family and Friends
  • Legacy begins with your Community
  • Your contribution to your Subject Matter Expertise
  • Legacy to Nature and Environment is your beholden duty

Legacy is something that somebody has done successfully and that has positive effects even after they retire or die. Leaving a legacy is planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. Heritage refers to material and economical inheritance, while legacy refers to immaterial and cultural inheritance.


Contribution to Community:

A Community is a social unit with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area or in virtual space through communication platforms.

Leave a Lasting Legacy: Contribution to Body of Knowledge / Industry


Leave a Lasting Legacy is:
  • Memories of love and belongingness to Family and Friends
  • Legacy begins with your Community
  • Your contribution to your Subject Matter Expertise
  • Legacy to Nature and Environment is your beholden duty

Legacy is something that somebody has done successfully and that has positive effects even after they retire or die. Leaving a legacy is planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. Heritage refers to material and economical inheritance, while legacy refers to immaterial and cultural inheritance.


Contribution to Body of Knowledge / Industry:

Body of knowledge is core teachings and skills required to work in a particular field or industry. Or a professional associations or business vertical that one is part of.

Leave a Lasting Legacy: Nature and Environment


Leave a Lasting Legacy is:
  • Memories of love and belongingness to Family and Friends
  • Legacy begins with your Community
  • Your contribution to your Subject Matter Expertise
  • Legacy to Nature and Environment is your beholden duty

Legacy is something that somebody has done successfully and that has positive effects even after they retire or die. Leaving a legacy is planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. Heritage refers to material and economical inheritance, while legacy refers to immaterial and cultural inheritance.


Nature and Environment:

Nature and Environment is the interaction of all living species, climate, weather and natural resources that affect human survival and economic activity.
Considering the current world situation – every human being should work for positive contribution to nature and environment.

Self Realization: Self Awareness


Self Realization is:
  • Built on the foundation of Self Awareness
  • A higher order fulfillment of Soul's Yearnings
  • Leading a Life of Divinity manifested in every thought word and deed
  • Experiencing and spreading Inner Peace and Bliss

The essence of self-realization is fulfilling a deeper inner purpose and meaning.


Self Awareness:

Self Awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards. Self-awareness enables objective evaluation of yourself, your emotions, and behavior alignment with your values.

Self Realization: Soul Fulfilment


Self Realization is:
  • Built on the foundation of Self Awareness
  • A higher order fulfillment of Soul's Yearnings
  • Leading a Life of Divinity manifested in every thought word and deed
  • Experiencing and spreading Inner Peace and Bliss

The essence of self-realization is fulfilling a deeper inner purpose and meaning.


Soul Fulfilment:

Soul Fulfillment is a feeling of happiness and satisfaction, from completion of a good deed or a noble action that goes beyond the body, mind and heart. A deeper elation beyond sensory pleasures.

Self Realization: Manifest Divinity


Self Realization is:
  • Built on the foundation of Self Awareness
  • A higher order fulfillment of Soul's Yearnings
  • Leading a Life of Divinity manifested in every thought word and deed
  • Experiencing and spreading Inner Peace and Bliss

The essence of self-realization is fulfilling a deeper inner purpose and meaning.


Manifest Divinity:

Manifest divinity means being a person who seeks benevolence for all and no gains for self at the cost of others. At a very higher philosophical level –realizing that you are the pure consciousness that is God.

Self Realization: Inner Peace and Bliss


Self Realization is:
  • Built on the foundation of Self Awareness
  • A higher order fulfillment of Soul's Yearnings
  • Leading a Life of Divinity manifested in every thought word and deed
  • Experiencing and spreading Inner Peace and Bliss

The essence of self-realization is fulfilling a deeper inner purpose and meaning.


Inner Peace and Bliss:

Inner Peace and bliss is a state of physical and spiritual calm. A state of happiness, contentment, and bliss irrespective of ordeals of life.