Topic ( Week of 5/17/26): The Five Life Areas - Part 2
Then, how do we live life? What is life all about? Many have asked me that question over the years. So, I finally went to the source (God the Almighty Creator) to get his answer. That was how Live For Results® began. One of the key things he revealed to me was that although there are different aspects to life, they are all meant to work together for each of us to grow into all we were created to become. There are five areas of life: Faith, Health, Relationships, Career and Finances. In most of our cultures we have established the habit of feeling tension between them. For example, we talk a lot about “finding” Work-Life balance as though work was a separate part of life. Yes, I understand that by life they largely mean doing what makes you feel good or happy. But work should also make you feel good or happy…if you understand why you are doing it. The five life areas fit together this way: 1. Faith is the foundation – Everyone has a faith. Even not believing God exists is a faith. From that “faith” whatever it is, comes your perspectives and behaviors in the other four life areas. 2. Health – How you care for your physical and mental well-being even if you are managing disabilities. 3. Relationships – How you position yourself and interact with others. Who you choose to be with and why as well as who you choose to leave or stay away from and why. It is your “why” that helps you decide whether to stay or go/associate or not associate. 4. Career – The work you choose to do, with whom and where. 5. Finances – How you fund and support the other 4 life areas. These are the Live For Results® definitions. What ties them all together and helps them take shape is your God intended “WHY” which we call your Purpose. Reflecting on Part 1, God created each of us with intention. Live For Results® has a process to help anyone discover their purpose and lay out a plan to achieve it. And that is complemented over time, by experiences good and not so good (I avoid saying “bad” because we can gain something from any experience). Through experience, we discover and begin to understand other parts of our purposes that would not surface any other way.