Robin Sieger Blog

It seems to be a very regular feature of many people’s lives that the New Year, is a time of optimism and wished for success. It is a time when we determine to make a resolution that will become our target for the year. The usual ones we can all recite parrot fashion; getting fit, eating better, the frequent ones; I’m changing jobs, going to travel more or spend more time with my family, and then there are the ones which (for all but a rare handful) fall into the realm of fantasy; I’m going to pack in my job sail around the world, or float my company on the stock market and then go see my old boss and stick it to him good.

Having spent most of my life as a keen student of the human condition for all its anomalies and absurdities, and the past twenty years of my life studying success and happiness, I thought this last newsletter would be a good place to reflect on what I believe is the ‘good stuff’ we should all be aware about in regards to creating our own success and happiness.

So in the tradition of Christmas Sunday Newspapers when endless lists are published; best film/worst song; most popular actor; best/worst vacation destinations, (you think of a subject and you can be sure someone somewhere has a top ten relating to it) in that spirit, I would like to give my Christmas List of the best lesson my life has taught me so far.
• You have one life live it with passion, compassion and purpose

• What you give to life, life gives you back with interest

• Choose a positive attitude at all times

• Better to try and to fail, than not to try and regret

• You are unique; so do not compare yourself with others

• The universe has no favourites

• Do what you love

• Fear is natural, yet most are imagined and find life in our imagination. We need to face them and in the process deconstruct them

• True love is unconditional (anything else is not)

• As you go through the journey of life create unforgettable moments of joy, laughter, love and happiness because at the end of a life, that is all you will have

• When you fall - get up

• Happiness is in the here and now, somewhere and someplace else

• When you say you are going to do something do it

• Learn to forgive yourself whenever you need to, don’t beat yourself up when you experience failure or shame, you have had a bad outcome that’s all. Forgive, forget and move on

• You become the person you imagine yourself to be. If you think of yourself as unworthy of success or love, you will manifest those characteristics, conversely if you see yourself as successful and worthy then that is what you manifest

• Celebrate simply joys and successes for yourself and others

• People cannot make you feel inferior without your consent, love yourself for who you are, don’t hate yourself for another person’s shortcomings

• Your job is what you do, it is not who you are

• When you die have only one regret; that you won’t be able to hear all the cool things that people are saying about you but never told you, and feel the love that your life created the difference you made, the compassion you showed and the love you shared

• Life is not a test or a formal examination, so don’t take it too seriously, and remember to laugh at its absurdities whenever and wherever you can

Nothing I doubt you have not heard or reflected upon before, but nevertheless I felt it would be a good way to end this final newsletter. A French philosopher Thierry Rousseau once said, “…truth exists only falsehood has to be invented”. In life I have found this to be the case, for all the self-help, new-age, wealth management and the many other popular books on the market, I have found that if you scratch beneath the surface you will find they all originate from a common source of truth. Apart from the crackpot ones which I hope are pretty self-evident!

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