Happiness always works in tandem: the happiness that comes with achievement and the happiness that comes from a cheerful family.
It’s a paired relationship; you can’t have one without the other. Bliss is happiness boiling over and running down both sides of the pot, said Josh Billings.
Management gurus have tried to draw parallels only between war strategies and the strategies for successfully managing a business. Pity. The more relevant lessons come from happy families.
Unless all the entities in a household are happy it cannot be a happy household. This means that the happiness of all its members is equally important. Similarly unless all the stakeholders in a business or all the members in a team are happy it cannot be a happy unit. It’s a complementary affiliation.
A family that pulls together in one direction
A happy family cannot be happy if it remains frozen in time as the world around it moves on. Happy families too have aspirations: a new house, a new car and so on. When the spouses and the kids decide to pull in the same direction they will find that they are able to produce more than the sum of their individual efforts and fulfill their dreams. This is true even with businesses. When the different entities work together they invariably find that the result of their effort is better than expected. They call this synergy.
Working together for each other’s happiness
Marriage is never a carefree stroll in the park. There are bound to be glitches. But happy couples don’t throw in the towel. They hang on. They learn to weather the storm. They Work together to resolve problems. They are tenacious. Similarly tenacity is a quintessential element to any successful career.
Happy couples are proactive
Happy couples don’t wait for things to go wrong and then firefight. They are proactive. They plan for the future. Anticipate the glitches and take preemptive action. This is true even for the achievers. They don’t wait for their cheese to be moved. They look for new opportunities before the old ones disappear.
Marriage is not about yourself
Marital bliss isn’t the result of individual effort. It stems from the fact that each member has a role to play and plays that role well even though the end result is not wholly for the member’s benefit but for the benefit of the family as a whole. It’s the same with the workplace. Overall benefit takes precedence over individual benefit. The gurus call this teamwork.
Happy couples just as successful careerists believe in learning from the experience of others.
Nirvana at home
Happiness at home and success at the workplace depend to a great extent on planning. Planning for the future and managing it is all about setting practical goals and achieving them. The attendant happiness is nirvana.
Happy couples are practical couples; they know that a married life totally free of friction is fantasy. When there is a problem they put their heads together to resolve it. However they try their best to avoid friction. This is true even with careerists. Friction in professional life is such a waste time, energy and an unnecessary dilution of focus.
Ironically the best advice that Sun Tzu gives in his book “The Art of War” is “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
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