Zale Tabakman

There are many people want to know who Zale Tabakman is, what I am about, and what I believe in

I would like to let you into how I look at something intensely personal, so you can under how I think.

This is an About Page – people come here to know who I am. It’s probably why you have come.

Typically these pages show a resume and a history of who I am.  But, that does not explain who I am.

People who want to know more about me come from LinkedIn.com, my classes at the YMCA, or from my teaching running clinics at The Running Room. Many stumble on me through a Google search and land on this website.  Then there are the people in the Jewish Community who hear about me because of one of my five children. And there is still others who hear about me through one of my other hobbies. (Winemaking, board games, and fishing)

The vast majority of people who learn about me do so through the Internet. On the Internet most people find me because they are part of my LinkedIn network of 16,000,000 people.

(YES THAT IS RIGHT – My LinkedIn network consists of over 16,000,000 of the nicest people. My network grows by thousands each day.

By connecting to me, you can connect to over 2,000,000 of these nice people.

Click here to understand what a LinkedIn connection to Zale Tabakman is worth.

Click here to see my LinkedIn profile which includes my resume – then send me an invitation so that you can have over 2,000,000 of the nicest people in your network.)

But my LinkedIn profile only provides a short synopsis of where I have worked and who I am currently working with.

Depending on how you meet me, you only see one part of me.

How do you know what I have to say is any good?

While it seems to make sense – none of it really helps to get to know the real Zale Tabakman.

This article is just about getting to know me as a person and helping to create some credibility in what I write. If you already know me and trust me – the rest of the article may be a bit boring. If I am new to you – keep reading and my writings will start to make more sense.

Unless you have met me face-to-face, its hard to get to know the kind of person I am. And if you have met me face-to-face its hard to get to know what I think about. While this problem exists for everybody, www.ZaleTabakman.ca is my attempt to help you know what Zale Tabakman thinks about and wants to share with the entire world. Don’t worry, there is nothing weird here nor am I going to share my deepest darkest secrets, but I will share everything I know that will help you become successful though creating and maintaining a balanced life.

Each and everyday you get to do what you want and you get to enjoy it. That is Success Through Balance. It means setting goals in all five areas of your life and then achieving those goals.

Once you have achieved a goal, you get to set new ones and and achieve these new goals.

The cycle never ends and you get to live a long and prosperous life. I truly believe that a busy and successful life creates the desire for a long life, and desire is one a basic requirement for longevity. Personally, I require a long life to complete all the goals I have set for myself.

By setting lots of goal – I just don’t have much of a choice about living a long life.

Each and every time you achieve a goal and set a new goal. You are having success.

How does this relate to getting to know Zale Tabakman?

If you meet me in person, you will hear me frequently quoting and living Dale Carnegie’s statement “If you act Enthusiastic, you will be Enthusiastic”.

This is my mantra for everything that I do.

Being enthusiastic generates the great things that happen in my life.

Being enthusiastic generates many of the challenges and disappointments.

It also causes many people to wonder what I am all about and if I am actually playing with a full set of clubs, if you know what I mean.

Let me give you an example of how it effects me.

Everybody understands what “Hard Work” is. I didn’t.

I honestly didn’t understand what “Hard Work” is.

I understand sweating over physical labour. A common definition – but that wasn’t what was meant.

I understand not understanding something and trying 15 ways to meet a goal. And it still not working – but that wasn’t what was meant.

I love and enjoy everything that I do. I had a discussion the other day with a psychiatrist about this and the best he could do was provide me was the following.

“Hard Work means doing things that are difficult for you.”

It doesn’t mean that you don’t enjoy them, it doesn’t mean they are easy. Hard work is just doing the things that is difficult for you.

I tend to focus on the goal and the enjoyment of reaching that goal. The actions and activities are what I need to do to reach that goal. Since I want the goal and I understand I need to get to the goal, then why should the work be considered hard?

In my case, I was born in 1958 – so that makes me 27 years old. (Yes – the math is correct since I know where the rip in the time-space continuum is.) I grew up as an only child in Sudbury Ontario in a secular Jewish environment. While I never celebrated Xmas, I spent many an Xmas morning with friends and know and understand the joy of the holidays.

Now I am a divorced father of five who is a practicing orthodox Jew who has studied about 1/2 of the Talmud. Looking back, I enjoyed the changes and still enjoy changing.  For example, until I was 16 years old, I had no clue what being Jewish was all about. I had to ask some very embarrassing questions. I didn’t want to ask them.

Until I was 27 years old (the first time around) I didn’t know what it meant to be a practicing Jew. More questions, more reading. And now, 25 years later, I am just realizing how little I know and how much more there is to learn. Each day I try to learn a page of the Talmud (Daf Yomi) many times I am sleepy or can’t concentrate or want to do something else.

I hardly ever look back and I never look in the mirror. I never remember the work I put in to achieve anything.  I forget to look back, I am always looking forward. It always seems like nothing compared to the result. In fact, one of the reasons I write the date on every Daf I learn, is so I can at least recall the work.

Each and every day I wake up and do my best to live an enthusiastic life.

My goal in life is to share what I have learned about success and having a balanced life. This is so that others can enjoy the same journey I am on.

This site documents is about all the different ways I have learned to create goals and to achieve these goals. I have organized my knowledge into an approach I have called “Success Through Balance“. The idea is that you become successful by living a balanced life.

If your life isn’t in balance, then you may have financial success, you may have esteem, you may have degrees, but you are missing something.

Only you know what that something is. But, when its missing, you can feel it. That’s one of the reasons a person may watch endless hours of television, cruise the Internet, or any other addiction. They are missing something and they looking for it. Having goals in the five areas and achieving goals stops this kind of nonsense.

My approach is based in my understanding of Jewish thought and practice. However, its not a “Jewish approach”, its a Zale approach based on my simple understanding of Jewish thought. Anybody familiar with traditional Jewish philosophy and values life will see the influences of Perka Avos, the Rambam, and Rabbi R. Marcus z”l. Rabbi Marcus was probably the most successful person I have ever had the privilege to know. Through his personality and through his daily acts of kindness, my standard has been set. At the end of my life, I hope to at lease be able to have the understanding of where and why I fell short of this standard.

Once I embarked on this journey to to teach people how to become successful, I have learned that there are many many other people who believe as I do in the importance of balance. Each author stresses different aspects of balance. Each approaches it differently, but every single one of them, believes in a balanced approach. It is noteworthy, that almost all have deep religious convictions, but only some are Jewish. This confirms to me that these are universal truths.

Let me start with a short story to help explain what I mean:

King Solomon, the wisest person who ever lived said that there is “Nothing New Under The Sun”. This is the absolute truth. However, there are many different ways of presenting the same information.

The other day, I was speaking to a mathematician, and he explained to me the history of group theory. The mathematician said that sometime in the middle 1800’s a number of mathematicians were studying Group Theory and believed there was no practical application, they were just trying to understand and develop the concept, just for the sake of the concept. They had made a discovery that was intellectually interesting but of no real use.

Then sometime later Physicists were doing something with particles and were able to explain the physical phenomenon using Group Theory.

My mathematician friend asked me what I thought it all meant. He is totally secular person and I suspect has a hatred for Religion.

I told him the explanation was simple.

There was Gd in the world and Gd had created the world for us and had created some truths in the world.

What had happened was that both the physicists and the mathematicians had discovered the same truths in the world. But they had discovered it from a different angle.

My site and my writings are my version of some truths in the world.

In these pages, you will be introduced to many people who understand success. Some are explicitly referenced and ways to learn about them are provided. Some are just mentioned in passing. Whenever possible, I try my best to quote where I learned what I have learned and why you should go and learn from them as well.

Hard work for me?

Its overcoming the effort when things don’t go as planned. When it seems that everything I touch won’t work. Its not giving up.

So now you have an understanding of who Zale Tabakman is. What I believe in, and what this site is about.

You can start your journey to learning about how to a achieve success through a balanced life here.

You can learn about my consulting practice here.

Your Opinion Does Improve ZaleTabakman.ca

Please take a second to rate this article

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

 Loading ...

How Many Different Resumes Do You Have?

(All answers are anonymous)

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5 Or More

View Results

 Loading ...

• Results From All The Polls

Permission is granted to copy exactly as is (with links) - If the following is PROMINENTLY included with the copied content:
"Copyright - Zale Tabakman - http://www.ZaleTabakman.ca"