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Only Everything is Everything

Relationships are everything.

Family is everything.

Health is everything.

These are expressions we’re accustomed to using and hearing.

While said with the best of intentions, they often reinforce an unhealthy attitude towards life and balance.

If you consider only one aspect of life to be everything, then it should come as no surprise when you neglect all other life areas.

This does not mean that you will be completely negligent of the life areas that don’t appear in your “everything” equation, but it does mean that they will most likely not make a sufficient appearance on your radar. And the more convinced you are that your only priority deserves your complete attention, the less care you will be putting into the rest of your life.

The fact is: Only everything is everything.

You can’t expect that focusing on a single life area is sufficient for healthy living.

All life areas need your attention.

All life areas contribute to your well-being.

All life areas influence and reinforce each other.

If you want to improve your relationships, then you need to be living by healthy spiritual values, sound reason, emotional stability, respect for others, financial income, rejuvenating rest and physical well-being. The same goes with the desire for strong family bonds or physical health. They depend on all other life areas for holistic growth and healthy living.

Whenever you find yourself giving all your attention to a single life area, remind yourself of all life areas, and see what you need to do to make progress in them all.

Spiritual, Intellectual, Psychological, Social, Professional, Recreational and Physical.

They all deserve to be in your life equation.

12 replies on “Only Everything is Everything”

Great call Haider. I notice people use the “Blank is everything” or some indirect form of it, to… sell stuff to people who are buying because they are afraid of what will happen if they don’t. It’s really vicious, and people do it to others all the time. If only we all read this post before compulsively buying stuff.

I really like how you say that “everything” is only everything. 😛
.-= Melissa Karnaze´s last blog ..How Anger Gets Stored in Your Body =-.

Thanks, Melissa!

And by using the “everything is everything” formula, I get to sell more stuff to more people! Haha! 😛

You reminded me when people answer questions with “everything” as an answer.

Like a friend once said: “That’s his answer … everything … that’s just like saying nothing”.

I agree with Manal, Awareness and Balance.

Hi Bloggy,

“Everything” is a symptom of fuzzy thinking. Rather than understand what’s involved, they go for the easy route.

Manal’s blog is very cool. You should check her posts out. And I love her About page!

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your input.

This is why I stress on the need for a holistic approach to personal growth (and why I came up with the personal growth map in the first place!): Focusing on a single life area will prevent us from realizing the role other life areas have on our lives.

Thanks for stopping by, Abubakar!

Balance is a topic I’m obsessively interested in (which is why I leaped on it as soon as you mentioned it on Twitter ;))…

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