Today, the week of the Independence Day Holiday, we kick off
the very first Jaxtastic Life Virtual Book Club with Arianna Huffington’s
Thrive: The Third Metric to Defining Success and Creating a Life of
Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder.
Let’s get going….
The Power of Wake-Up
Calls & The Three-Legged Stool
The author shares about her impactful wake-up call waking up
in a pool of her own blood with a cut eye and a broken cheekbone due to exhaustion
and lack of sleep. She, like so many others, was focused on the generally
accepted measures of success: Money and Power...the proverbial two-legged stool
that it was just a matter of time before she “toppled over.”
Do you measure your success only by money and power? How is
that working for you?
Have you endured your own personal wake-up call? What
happened? What has changed? Has anything changed? Why or Why Not?
Controlling the
Clicker
“Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the
clicker. Don’t replay the bad, scary movie.” This fabulous quote came from the
author’s mother.
Do you find yourself replaying the same argument or
frustrations or injustices over and over again in your head? Can you let them
go? Why? Why not?
The Third Metric
The Third Metric or the
third leg of the “stool of success” and the organizational structure of this
book is introduced.
How would you rate yourself in the areas of well-being,
wisdom, wonder and giving?
Are you excited or skeptical about taking on these four
areas of your life?
Independence Day Declarations
– What Are Yours?
This Friday is our country’s Independence Day.
Will you free yourself from the unsustainable “2
legged-stool” measure of success?
Will you declare to Thrive?