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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is a self-help book written by Robin Sharma, a Canadian writer and motivational speaker. This book isn’t about having good stuff; it’s about choosing a vocation or a purpose in life that Is able to fulfill you in many ways. Provides a deeply meaningful purpose.
Allows you to afford to live the lifestyle that you want. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is about a successful lawyer who is full of tensions and work pressure. He finally decides to leave his worries of past and his rich lifestyle behind after a massive heart stroke and goes to the Himalayan Mountains searching for peace.
He meets the great monks of Himalayas whom he refers to as the “Great Sages Of Sivana” and discovers the path to enlightenment. He then comes back to his friend to share the secrets to lead a great life. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is more about enlightening you and telling you the true meaning of life. It tells you of what it is like, to be filled with limitless potential.
Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: The elemental aspects of the book are the Seven Virtues of Enlightenment.
Virtue -1: Master Your Mind
The quality of your life is signified by the quality of your thoughts. Cultivate your mind with good thoughts and it will bloom beyond your imagination. Protect your mind and only let the positive things get to your mind. Here, the author also emphasizes on the point – “There are no mistakes-only lessons.” This is a way of thinking based on appreciating yourself.
Virtue-2: Follow your purpose
Find the purpose of your life. You’ve come onto the planet Earth for a reason. Have goals and reach them every single day. In this way, you can develop discipline and use it when something bigger comes your way. You have to do something every day that brings you out of your comfort zone and pushes your limits.
Virtue-3: Practice Kaizen
Now, many of you who haven’t read the book might be wondering as to what is this Kaizen. Kaizen is a Japanese technique for improving and optimizing oneself. It’s a process in which you improve in the areas of your life and work in a step by step manner. Here in this virtue, Robin Sharma focuses on things like – “Success on the outside begins with success on the inside.”
Virtue-4: Live With Discipline
Discipline is very much important to achieve things in life. It is developed by consistently doing something every day that you’ve determined to do in your life. You need to set up schedules and guidelines for yourself and have a system in life. Have courage and willpower, practice self-discipline and you’ll master the virtue.
Virtue-5: Respect Your Time
We all know that time is an invaluable commodity today. So, it’s important that you utilize it to the optimum extent. You, I and everybody else has the same 24 hours in their day, but it is the effective time management skill that separates the successful people from the others. Master your time and you’ll master your life. Time once gone will never return back. So, you need to utilize the time efficiently when it’s still in your hands.
Virtue-6: Selflessly Serve Others
It is greatly important that you contribute to the greater world to become a true human. Practice small acts of charity and kindness every day and you’ll achieve great fulfilment in life. Focus on relationships and value others, you’ll realize the true meaning of life. Do a little act of charity or kindness every day and you’ll sum up to a whole new level of contentment in life.
Virtue-7: Embrace The Present
All you have is the present. In this virtue, Robin Sharma focuses about 3 techniques to embrace the present fully which are 'Live your children’s childhood', 'Practice empathy', 'Heighten towards your destiny'. Robin Sharma also says-“Live in the now and never sacrifice your happiness for achievement.” Live each day as if it was your last. Hence, you need to stop being a prisoner of your past and become a sculptor of your future.
Written By - Aditya Neelakantam
Edited By - Nidhi Verma
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