A very important lesson I’ve learned on this path of personal growth is that the different areas of life are connected and that they support each other. Segmenting one area out like your health or your finances and working on it alone is difficult if the other areas aren’t there for support.

A Personal Story

When I first decided to jump into this field of personal growth, I asked myself “where do I start?” I decided to start with my health seeing as that was the area that I felt could use the most improvement and it was completely dragging everything else down. It would probably be a lot easier for me to do anything else if I weren’t carrying all this extra weight around everywhere.

I joined a nearby gym and hired a personal trainer for six sessions for an hour each session. Everything went great. The gym had lots of people helping, it was walking distance from my apartment, I had a great trainer with a very positive attitude and I learned a lot from him. The gym had all the equipment I needed and was a nice hang out spot too. I felt good both physically and emotionally. I felt like I was on the right path. I finished the sessions and went to the gym consistently for another month before everything came crashing down.

During this time, I really wanted to eating more empowering foods, so I started preparing my own stuff. This is where things started getting out of whack. I wanted to eat healthier but I didn’t exactly know what “healthier” was so I would mainly eat fish and salads. Needless to say, I eventually I got bored with that. The biggest problem was that I plain ran out of left over student loan money so there was no more personal trainer, no more gym membership and no apartment, so I moved back in with parents.

Lessons Learned

What did that teach me? That I need food variety. That when you want to disconnect from something you don’t want (unhealthy foods) you should connect with something you do want (healthy alternatives) and use that as a replacement.

Of course, the most important lesson I learned was that cash flow is critical. Somehow I had made myself think that I could keep up that lifestyle with no consistent income coming in. Lesson learned.

The Truth, Love, and Power Model

You can see this pretty clearly if you’re consciously aligning yourself with Truth, Love, and Power. You’ll see that you can’t isolate one of these three parts and hope the other two will follow along or magically be where you want. For instance, it might Courage (subset of Power) to connect with something you want (Love).

Life as a Rope

You could view life as a rope. That rope is as strong as the intertwined spiral of smaller fibers that it is made of. Each fiber on the rope represents a different area of life. When all the fibers are in harmony it creates a strong spiral (the rope) which you can climb up. However, if any part of that rope is weak or just isn’t there, it affects the whole rope. The whole rope is weaker therefore making it less stable. It might just break altogether while you’re trying to climb up, leaving you falling to the ground.

What you eat affects your productivity. Your productivity affects your cash flow. Your cash flow affects your lifestyle. Your lifestyle affects your stress level. Your stress level affects your productivity. We could go on for days like this.

Is there an area of your life you want to change? Is there another part of your life that’s keeping you from improving it or hindering you in some way?

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