By Jim Selman | Bio
The last 10 years seems to me to have been a
long decade. I know that time is supposed to ‘speed up’ as we get
older, but the “Millennium” celebrations, Y2K and all the hype about
the 21st century seems like ancient history. A decade ago, we still
weren’t at war in two countries, 9/11 hadn’t happened, George Bush was
still promising a bipartisan administration, climate change was still a
bit of an arcane scientific debate for most of us, New Orleans was
still having a non-stop party and Google was a minor start-up. YouTube
didn’t exist at the turn of the century, eBay and Amazon were still
babies, and the real estate bubble was just beginning. Steve Jobs had
recently returned to Apple after spending 13 years with NeXT, the iPod
and iTunes were concept just beginning to be developed and the iPhone
wasn’t even in sight.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
Today is ‘back to work’ for most of us. We’ve
eaten too much, survived another holiday season and are now preparing
for what’s next. This year is different for many throughout the world.
The economy, climate, war and poverty are continuing sources of
suffering. I hear more and more people expressing their fears about the
future and predictions that 2009 will be ‘very tough’. Unfortunately,
if enough people have a pessimistic view of their future, then as I
have said on this blog many times, we are creating a self-fulfilling
reality. We will get what we resist and fear unless and until enough
people create a critical mass to create a different, unpredictable
future.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Leadership
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
It
seems to me that I have been making New Year’s Resolution’s most of my
life. Like many, I have also been well intended and even ‘in action’
for awhile each year before my list fades into the background; habit or
comfort or rationalization takes over and I once again ‘forget’ my
annual commitments to personal betterment for another year. At my age I
wonder why I even bother to make the list.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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By Jim Selman | Bio
You hear about it and know it is true—the
body breaks down as we grow older. Naturally there are lots of
exceptions. If you take really good care of yourself, you might make it
to the end of the game without any major physical impairment. However,
for most of us we’re going to encounter some life-limiting change in
our bodies. I encountered my first this week.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Health
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I wrote a post on growth
a while ago about how insane I think it is to believe we can grow
forever—at least in terms of economic growth. I was also reading The World We Want posts
by David Korten that echoed the same sentiments but that go further to
point out that all the breakdowns that are appearing are perhaps the
greatest creative opportunity in history. That got me thinking that
while I think there are limits to economic growth, this is only true in
a finite and deterministic worldview—in a paradigm of scarcity.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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