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Thursday Sep 24 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio

Over the course of my lifetime, I have heard many ‘bottom-line’ bits of wisdom. For example, “the key to happiness is loving what you do”. Or, “at the end of the day, you can either resist life or surrender and live life on life’s terms”. These kinds of nuggets are usually true and are certainly valid in a list of maxims and aphorisms for living. “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” by Robert Fulghum is a great example of this genre. My favorite (and the one that I have personally found the most useful) is one I first heard in the 1970s in something called the ‘est training’. The ultimate choice we have as human beings, we were told, is whether we are ‘at the effect’ of our circumstances or whether we can relate to them ‘at cause’, meaning be responsible for everything in our lives.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: acceptance choice mastery relationship robert_fulghum wisdom

Not Easy: Just Clear

Friday May 29 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio

Yesterday I was coaching a friend of mine. I was sharing a bit of how important it is to ‘come from’ your vision for your life. Our future is always a product of our actions, and our actions are always a correlate of how we relate to the future. When we act as if the future has already happened, then it is only a matter of time before that future is realized or we learn what we need to learn to achieve it. Her response was, “Well, you make it sound so simple, but it is too abstract and I need to know ‘how’ to have what I want in the future.” This was my response.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning

Tagged with: being context doing learning mastery paradigm