What does it feel like to create a life on your terms? Where your health, relationships, finances and mindset are all supercharged with positive momentum and intent?
The 4 Pillars offers a template on how to shape your life towards fulfilment in these areas; where you learn to master your health, take control of your relationships, grow your finances and develop a clear and positive mindset.
The 4 Pillars is your roadmap to a better life.
Geoff Smith is a student of yoga, rugby coach, personal trainer and teacher with over 20 years’ experience. He holds a Master of Education, an MBA and post graduate certificates in management and leadership. In his role as an educational leader in schools for at-risk youth, Geoff introduces the principles of the 4 Pillars to manage burnout among fellow staff and to create enhanced levels of wellbeing and excellence. Geoff lives in Brisbane, Australia with his fiancé Ash and dog Bodhi.
Introduction
Monday morning 3 a.m.
Stillness and silence.
My brother once said that only misfits and those living on the edges of society are awake at this hour. I like the sound of that. Being a misfit has real advantages.
Early morning is the time for writers, innovators, philosophers and artists. It’s time to prepare for the day ahead and begin another day investing in the 4 Pillars. These pillars of health, relationships, finance and mindset form the foundation of creating a life on our terms: a life where I now decide how, with whom and where I spend my time. It’s how I create a life I define as a success.
It all happens in the early hours while most are asleep. It occurs through preparation and planning. Creating a successful life means becoming uncommon. Rising early was just one of many uncommon traits shared throughout this book.
The 4 Pillars contains the rituals and habits to create a life on your terms. This book also includes strategies to overcome challenges I encountered as I progressed, in an effort to share an authentic account of personal development and improvement. Tough times often reveal more about our inadequacies than we like to admit, but they are valuable teachers. Working through each of the 4 pillars and the strategies I use to keep moving forward provides a template for choosing your own path as you create a life on your own terms.
Maybe you’re faced with adversity right now—adversity in the form of an unsatisfying job, an unfulfilling relationship or a sense of overall fatigue. This book provides strategies based on science, ancient wisdom and personal experience that go beyond exercise programs to flatten your stomach. The 4 Pillars focuses on unpacking the underlying beliefs and habits currently represented in the life you are living: beliefs and habits that no longer serve the person you are choosing to become.
Together we will explore how to develop habits and rituals that will enhance your performance in all areas of life. We’ll also anticipate and investigate challenges that you may encounter in relationships, finances and your mindset that have the potential to sabotage your efforts.
Finally, this book represents the never-ending journey of self-development all of us are taking. There is no finish line. There are no winners or losers. Yet, there is an ocean of fulfilment that unfolds once we seek to become better versions of ourselves.
Regardless of where you are on your journey, this book will provide practical, simple and effective strategies to create the life you desire.
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Very simple, yet informative. Loads of enlightening information that was pleasant to read. It was a quick read for me. Love it! 4/5 Stars
–Aahana Teotia,NetGalley
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So enlightening and gripping. Really loved and enjoyed it. The writing was simple yet provocative. Definitely a full 5 stars read for me!!
– Soph C, Librarian, NetGalley
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Clearly written and well-organized. This self-help is set up as an 8 week program to work through. Lots of good nuggets of information to explore. 4/5 Stars
– Tracey Delgado, NetGalley
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
The 4 Pillars is a beautifully simple, practical guide to improving this thing we call “life”. We forget sometimes it is our ultimate gift. We know what we should be doing to create more joy, energy & abundance in our lives – yet something always gets in the way. The 4 Pillars helps us uncover those barriers and provides really unique ways to “re-frame” the barriers, so dropping them becomes easy. If you think you know all there is about health, wealth, relationships and mindset, think again. I guarantee you will uncover some hidden gems in this book.
– Marion McRae, Physiotherapist, Movement Solutions
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Geoff’s message speaks to our inner wisdom and the challenge lies in making it a daily practice. Fortunately, Geoff offers a step-by-step application of the 4 Pillars in his eight week program to support each of us in finding our own path. If you are looking to make a major shift or experience a breakthrough in the process of self-change, this book is for you!
– Denise Dale, Counsellor