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Are you exposed?

By Marc Beauchamp What is a one-dimensional person?
Bankcard Life We know the story; it's not new. The hard-charging
entrepreneur who dedicates his (or her) life to making
s I write this month from quarantine here in money at the expense of neglecting other areas of life
The Woodlands, Texas, I'm struck by how wakes up one day, usually too late, and realizes what was
the current situation brought on by the coro- really important was not the money, but the people he (or
A navirus pandemic has exposed many of us, she) was supposedly working so hard for.
including myself, across several different aspects of our
personal and business lives. Yes, I said personal. I know Carl Jung explained it like this: "Thoroughly unprepared,
we are business focused, but if you think your business we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we
life is separate from your personal life, you are sorely take this step with the false presupposition that our truths
wrong. We are going to get personal. and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot
live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's
I talk a lot about the four dimensions – body, being, morning, for what was great in the morning will be little
balance and business – and how all of these need to work at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening
in tandem for us to produce consistently big results in our will have become a lie. "
lives. We are multidimensional human beings; it's essential
to not get caught in the trap of being one dimensional. What I get out of this passage is that what we may have
thought was so important early on in business and life
turns out to be completely the opposite of what will
provide real happiness in the long run. Don't get me
wrong, I want us all to be financially successful, but the
After days of family time, I realized financial prosperity is just a means to realize what Jung
that I often use work as an excuse alludes to in the afternoon of life.
to get away from my family, or I When you squeeze an orange, can
fall back on work as an excuse to it produce apple juice?

not show up in a deeper way with COVID-19 is exposing all of us in a variety of ways, and
the orange can only produce what's inside of it: orange
my wife and children. Talk about juice. As we get squeezed by stress, resistance to change,
an eye opener: I was exposed. heath uncertainty, vulnerability and myriad other things,
we can only produce what is inside of us. The ways you
choose to handle challenges in one area of your life expose
or affect your health in all areas of your life, including

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