What’s your class? Where do you live your life?
Are you traveling through life first, second, third or fourth class?
That’s the essence of the question that Anthony Robbins asked me this morning.
He went on to outline what he meant by each class, making clear the distinctions of how I feel and what is genuinely good for me. Then how these two impact others around me and the world at large. These distinctions provided a point of clarity like reading the arrow on a compass that can result in greater confidence that I will be headed in the direction I really do want to go.
As are most potent insights, it was simple. Clear. And it resonated. At least for me at this time.
- First class living includes feeling really good while doing the things that are actually good for me.
- Second class living is where I don’t feel really great, but I am still doing the things that are good for me, and therefore enable me to do well for others and the world at large.
- Third class moments are those when I feel good, BUT I am doing things that are not good for me, and I am not able to best help others or contribute to the large good.
- And fourth class actions are those when I feel bad yet continue to do things that are bad for me, for my friends and family and the larger community.
What do you think? Of course, I am simplifying a much more comprehensive point here. But even having this way of looking at how I am living each moment helps me to see where I need to go if I am to pursue the things I truly value in life.
Let me know what you think. Of course there is much more to this. Perhaps I can add insights to this a little later. But for now, I am still just getting this writing thing started. And that makes this, for me, a Class Two experience. Writing is not easy. But perhaps I can contribute even in some small way to another person or to the larger internet community through this. And so it may only be a small good. But at least the direction is right.
