What I have seen through personal experience, inspiration, and lots of conversations, observations, and research is that the number one cause of malaise, or chaos and a life out of sync is building it unknowingly upside down.
Its not a debate that hard work, and money, and drive, and goals are a necessary ingredient, its just that they cannot hold up the weightier things that really matter in life.
The base of the pyramid (self development, people, family, connection, health, faith, belief, attitude, mindset) must always be kept as first priority and kept in alignment or the next layer of the pyramid (hard work, ambition, money, growth, and advancement) will always buckle under the weight, because its meaning can never be big enough to make a proper base. And the meaning of other things can never be small enough to be left for last.
Its not idealist. Its practical. Why would you build something so you can be stressed about it falling down all the time?
If you are exhausted and overwhelmed from not having enough hands, and holding up an upside down pyramid, its time to get some helping hands and support and tactics to bring the right pieces to the right places, and fix the structure, so it supports itself.
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