Fine-tuning Your Life

Due to the daily rush of conflicting home, relationship and work deadlines, you probably have the experience of constantly going in and out of balance. You may feel a bit like a piano that's going out of tune, or a car that needs to be taken into the shop and tuned up. When your piano starts sounding off-key or your car starts making very odd noises, you know it's time to pay attention before things get worse.

Similarly when there's too much "noise" in your life, you can no longer hear yourself think. Your intuition is drowned out by the white noise of constant busyness. You get crabby and start make unpleasant noises yourself when your stress level rises. And, much like your out-of-tune car or piano, whatever is making all that excessive noise in your life, work, and relationships can cause unnecessary wear and tear on you - and cause real-life mental, emotional, and physical breakdowns.

The Coreporation provides a simple, but elegant methodology to help you "fine-tune" your life. We call our process The 5 Elements of Success. It is a technique you can use while you're on the run - as we know you usually are. Happily, this process can grow with you as your life changes.

Here's how it works. A musician strikes a tuning fork to tune a piano so that all the keys are in harmony with each other (and so it sounds like a concert hall grand piano rather a honky-tonk western saloon-hall piano). Similarly, you need to align all the components of your life by first determining your core identity and values. This first Element of Success serves as the originating "tone" - the reference point - that you will use to tune your whole life, so that every part of it functions "harmoniously." The 5 Elements of Success process becomes your reference point for all future decisions so that you can make sure every aspect of your life is aligned with all the others.

The 5 Elements of Success constitute a natural evolutionary process, as described below:

1. First you determine your identity and values; out of this emerges:
2. Your vision of an ideal future; and out of the vision comes:
3. Your mission - a first tangible action step to move you towards your new future; then you will be in a much better position to figure out:
4. The interactions that will be most helpful in fulfilling your new life plan; and finally,
5. You can design the structure, including all physical resources, that will best support and ensure attainment of your declared goals.

Fine-tuning Your Life is an ongoing process, not an isolated event. The 5 Elements of Success can provide you with a light and highly portable template that will serve as a strong and enduring framework for absolutely every decision you'll ever have to make. It will become a part of your daily life, saving countless missteps plus wasted time and energy. Moreover, it will also help you ensure integrity within your life by integrating every vital component of your life so that each one is "in tune" with all the others.
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The 5 Elements of Success process has its theoretical roots in physics and mathematics. The reason that some music sounds good to the human ear has to do with the length of wave-forms. (This is why some notes sound harmonious together, and others dissonant.) In your day-to-day life, this is much like the difference you feel when you get the opportunity to work with that bright, cooperative, pleasant colleague down the hall versus when you're forced to work with that bossy, over-paid block-head in the next office.

The 5 Elements of Success are similar to the natural musical overtone series described first by the famous Greek philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, Pythagoras. Much like Pythagoras' predictable mathematical formula for the intervals that create harmonious music, each one of The 5 Elements of Success rises naturally out of the prior one, resulting in the life-equivalent of beautiful, rich and full music. Or, if you prefer, resulting in the equivalent of a perfectly-tuned Ferrari that you happily gun before taking off and leaving all your troubles far behind you.