When one listens to pearls like the one in the video below, one realises that the truly important concepts and reflections are common to most of the people in the world. elected who have succeeded in one way or another in life. I am not referring to financial success but to personal success, even though they often go hand in hand, and do not always form a positive conjunction. There are a number of wise thoughts and reflections that are revealingly common in those who can feel fully proud at the end of their lives. Those who have clearly contributed to making the world better to a greater or lesser extent or whose passage through this life has not been sterile. In short, those whom for one reason or another we admire and would like to be able to emulate. But these reflections should also be common to mere mortals who will not go down in history, but who strive to reach the end of our lives with the satisfaction of feeling fully proud of our passage through this world.For our part, we humbly wanted many of these virtues to be taken into account by our clients when designing their future. Interestingly enough, just as Steve Jobs , one of the many reflections that we always like to do with our new clients before we prepare a new project. Global Wealth Plan is: What changes would you have to make in your life if you were diagnosed with a serious illness and your time was suddenly running out? The answers we come across are very diverse, but they always involve extremely fruitful reflections. We should not wait until the end of our life to put it in order. And hiring a family office is the right time to make these and many other changes that are not always directly related to optimising our investments.
As you will see in Steve Jobs' video, this reflection on the end of life has also helped him to analyse and relativise what is truly important in this world. Although it may come as a surprise, when we talk about managing and structuring more or less important assets, the consequences of contemplating or ignoring these reflections are very noticeable. For better and for worse. And we can assure you that when a Client's personal size allows him to value these concepts and reflections that we propose to him when designing his PGR, the results in terms of wealth progression and Happiness are spectacular. The pursuit of Happiness in parallel but also beyond the increase of our fortune, is something very enriching at all levels. As we have said before:
Paradoxically, when the focus is on the enjoyment of the journey, you tend to get on the podium, and the happiness achieved is far greater than the mere medal.
Losing sight of these vital concepts and reflections when dealing with money and wealth is one of the greatest dangers we can incur. Optimising the returns on our assets will produce money, but also a myriad of problems that will lead to unhappiness if we ignore what is really important in Life. On the other hand, if we have properly assessed these concepts, wealth progression in a wise living environment will be much more likely and easier to optimise. This is the basis of Cluster effect positive.
Here is the version of Mr. Jobs' speech that I found more than a year ago at Gurusblog thanks to Investorsconundrum, It is in its entirety and subtitled in Spanish. However, Steve Jobs' speech opened the 2005 academic year at the university:
If you are interested in this kind of reflections, which in my opinion are what distinguish the interesting people who pass through this world from the rest of the crowd, I also recommend you to read another pearl, this time from here: The Seven Powers, of Àlex Rovira. Finally, I leave you with the selection of the Top 20 must-reads for «the journey of life», according to this same author, a true Guru of Happiness. An interesting library if ever there was one:
1. Man's search for meaning. Victor Frankl.
2. The man who planted trees. Jean Giono.
3. Philosophical dictionary. André Comte-Sponville
4. Siddhartha. Hermann Hesse.
5. Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman.
6. The wheel of life. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
7. Grace and courage. Ken Wilber.
8. The freedom to be. Annie Marquier
9. The art of loving. Erich Fromm.
10. The scripts we live by. Claude M. Steiner.
11. I am that. Sri Nisargadatta Maharah.
12. Who I am - the sacred quest. Jean Klein.
13. The Dance of Reality. Alejandro Jodorowsky.
14. The Little Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
15. The Act of Will. Roberto Assagioli.
16. The prayer of the frog. Anthony de Mello.
17. The wisdom of insecurity. Alan Watts.
18. Integral psychology. Ken Wilber.
19. Bhagavad Gita.
20. I Ching.
The supreme wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight of them while pursuing them.
William Faulkner.