Teachings from the book THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRARI – THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari has been great to learn from and here in this article I am sharing with you what I understood and learnt about those seven principles which is the most important part of this book and can help us live life in a better way and also achieve our goals and gain success, so keep reading to know more…
The
Seven Principles
1. The Garden - When someone spreads dirt or waste or even any kind of noise in your beautiful garden then the Garden becomes messy and dirty. The garden in the story represents your mind. If your mind is filled with negativity, tensions, useless knowledge and useless thoughts by overthinking, then you will never be happy. So think like a Gardner who always keeps the garden serene and beautiful. What will come in, what will go and how to keep it clean all these things are cared for by the gardener.
You have to stand like a watchman near the door of your mind. And you have to stop letting any negative thought and information of any kind enter into your mind.
Stay around positive people more and away from the negative ones. If by any chance who came into contact with any negative information or had any negative thought, just let yourself be aware of it but not affect you, just move on to next positive thought.
Sow the seeds of beautiful flowers and nutritious fruits in your MIND GARDEN rather than not the seeds of poisonous fruits.
2. The lighthouse - The second principle mentioned in this book is explained through this story is represented through a lighthouse. The work of the lighthouse is to provide direction through its light to ships during the night in the sea.
If there's no lighthouse then ships won't have the right
direction to go in the dark night and hence can get broken by crashing with
rocks or the seashore. Here the lighthouse symbolizes the purpose of your life.
If you don't know the purpose of your life then you
will have no direction in your life and you will be get scattered by the rocks
of worries and aimless path in life. But if you have clear vision that what is
your purpose to what direction you want your life to be being flexible too then
you’ll have a good meaningful full life full of confidence, self-respect,
goals, achievements, learning’s and happiness.
You will go through and learn specific knowledge
about what you really want to do, will talk about your work and areas of
interest and topic which really matters to you and helps you grow. And you will
stay focused in that specific direction. That's why, know yourself first that what
you would love to do, how you can help others, what you are good at and discover
what your purpose is. Put effort to go ahead towards reaching to your goals by
taking small steps consistently and with perseverance.
3. The Sumo wrestler - The huge sumo wrestler represents the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen which is about dividing big goal into small goals and doing things to keep improving yourself continuously. To have Unstoppable improvement or progress, to build the huge body the Sumo wrestler has to follow the continuous specific diet and process.
In the same
way you also have to make yourself better and improve yourself a little by
little every day. By doing little things daily or building small good habits
like making your bed or reading a page of book or article etc., you can achieve
big beneficial results in life.
4. The rope - It depicts self-control and discipline. The sumo wrestler had worn a rope like underwear which was very thin and was tied to his waste. A thin thread of this rope is weak alone but when it is joined together with many other thin ropes then it became very strong.
Like the rope made of many thin wires, our self-control and discipline is also made of every small task we we do in our day-to-day life to keep control and have self-discipline, like waking up early in the morning, eating natural food using a ladder instead of lift. In long term these small things will make big difference in your life.
5. The golden watch - We all have only 24 hours in a day, none of us has one minute more or less but still you may sometime think and believe that we have lot of time and you tend to procrastinate doing what you supposed to be doing but then a moment comes when you realize that you have no time left to do what you kept on postponing to do and all the significant time has gone and you regret it.
The golden watch here implies the precious time you have now and you must know and remember that you have this time only that is today so don't postpone priorities before it’s too late. Finish your work/task one by one and enjoy the journey towards reaching your goals.
6. The roses -
the Sumo wrestler lying unconscious comes to his senses by the pleasant
fragrance of the flowers. Those flowers represent kindness and selflessness. No matter how much money you make you
will never get that satisfaction that a person gets by helping another person.
Helping and serving others will make you happy, so you should help others as
much as possible and that too selflessly.
7. The path of diamond - these diamonds are nothing but the moments of your life that gives you a lot of happiness. It can be days spent by you with your children in the park or it may be a quality time you spent with your spouse or something else. These moments can be anything which gives you happy memories. Never sacrifice such beautiful moments like spending time with your family for your achievement of success or anything materialistic.
Summary: -
Take care of your garden that is your mind and master
it. Only let right, useful, positive information and thoughts enter into it.
Live your life in the direction of fulfilling your
purpose.
Apply Kaizen and make self-improvement, learning and
progress a continuous part of your life.
Practice self-discipline.
Value time as it is precious and won’t come again so
maximize it by properly utilizing it for the best benefits of yourself and
others.
Be kind, help and serve others selflessly.
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