Soulful Business Magazine

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YOUR PHILOSOPHY

BY DR. MARK POSTLES Every person on this planet has a philosophy - including you.The philosophy that you have relates to and includes everything in yourworld. The clothes you wear, the car you drive, the relationships you have, the business you create etc. They are all a result of your ruling philosophy. Philosophy as a way of thinking about something. Every result that you have in your life and business has to do with your philosophy. You craft your philosophy, whether you are conscious of the process or not. Your philosophy is an integrated view of your perception of existence. Your ideas, experiences, thoughts, words, and deeds form your model of the world. This is your philosophy and it plays out giving you what you are and have.

Your philosophy gives you your wings and empowers you to create what it is that you create. Eleanor Roosevelt said it this way, “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words. It’s expressing the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” Whether you have defined your philosophy or not it still runs you. Herein lies the challenge. You may have taken on a philosophy on life, people, success, the world (you name the entity) that may have been useful at some point on your life’s journey but may no longer be but because you think FROM your 15


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