In our effort to continually decode the secrets of success or, more importantly, avoid failure, we provide insightful articles each month containing thought-provoking perspectives on building a successful and sustainable life.
Content is drawn from current events, personal experience, and archives of references from experts in multiple fields, including ancient philosophers. The bottom line consideration is: What works and what doesn’t work … what’s enduring … what’s translatable across all disciplines … what’s applicable to both life and work … and what’s sustainable.
Sometimes it helps to take a step back and see where we fit in the cosmos and sometimes it’s necessary to step forward and take a shot at the brass ring. In either case, we can use all the help we can get in Visioning and Vectoring. The Life Mastery Musings Blog uses Visioning and Vectoring tools and examples from both microscopic introspection and 60,000 foot vantage points to help deepen personal perspective, expand possibilities, and strengthen resolve to move onward.
LIFE’S TOUGH! The CHALLENGES are FORMIDABLE The RESPONSIBILITIES are AWESOME The EXPECTATIONS are OUT OF SIGHT And TIME is always TOO SHORT for what we want and need to do Consequently, it’s increasingly clear that getting through life “on our own two feet with our own two hands” won’t get the job entirely done. We…
All of us would become much more broadly, deeply and enthusiastically engaged in life if only we had more NOBLE enterprises to pursue. Mundane things like “chores” and “homework” and everyday maintenance flotsam and jetsam don’t really “light our fire” … they’re not really benchmark engagements for which we’ll get any credit or reward or…
Our “Character” is the main currency we carry for successful navigation in the universe … with underscored attributes of trustworthiness, accountability, and all the rest. Recent events lead one to wonder how much our “Character” is hard-wired and how much of it is malleable … and with how much effort? The recent flare-ups over past…
Much of our sense of well-being, our security, and overall quality of life depends on how well we manage the “EDGES” of our existence: The boundaries, barriers and overall “framework” that define our world and keep us sane, secure, solvent, salubrious, sanguine, spirited and surging forward. When we lose the definition of “EDGES”, we lose…
ar·tic·u·la·tion noun LANGUAGE the formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech. “the articulation of vowels and consonants” MUSIC clarity in the production of successive notes. “beautifully polished articulation from the violins” https://www.google.com/search?q=articulation+definition&oq=articulation&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.3817j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 ARCHITECTURE distinctiveness of both structural/functional and cosmetic/ornamental features comprising a whole LIFE … Articulation implies some…
For this one, you may want to look up “Free Will” on the internet and pick a couple of TED talks for background. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_VG_aqwoc INTRODUCTION: A small but hard core mix of neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists holds that hardly anything we do is an expression of “Free Will”. That is, we are, essentially, “Biological…
Success in basketball depends on how many “touches” you get. You can’t shoot the ball or get points or get assists if you can’t get any “touches”. If you’re a dependable ball handler or shooter, you’ll get lots of “touches”. Your coach and team mates will seek you out. However, “touches” don’t come easy. You…
In describing the ERTIA UNLIMITED “Lifecourse Diagram”, one of the major points to be made is how important it is to make ourselves “helpable” … i.e., by showing some degree of initiative … by being a “Player” , with an inclination to advance and with some reasonable prospects and positive possibilities of making life happen. …
The wife was cleaning out the refrigerator shelves but couldn’t figure out how to remove a retaining rack, so she called Super-Hurango for help! [OK, it was probably a ploy to make retired SH feel useful!] A 22-second assessment, including two “trial” but failed approaches, finally ended in a successful rack removal venture. [She then…
I reflexively wince when seeing or hearing reference to the Kentucky motto: “Unbridled Spirit”. Of course, there’s the superficial first inclination – at least in Kentucky – to conjure images of “unbridled” horses galloping idyllically through open meadows, running with the wind. How liberating! One also might picture the unbridled, unsaddled horses of…
Ed Romond loved mathematics. After high school, he got a BA in math, and started his career teaching high school math in Boston. While his wife was matriculating through a Psychiatric Nursing program, she planted a seed of alternative interest, suggesting that Ed consider a more challenging career possibility in medicine. He was intrigued: it…
Last Fall, we cut down a struggling crabapple tree. [It allowed me to acquire a new tool … a really cool battery powered chain saw!] This Spring we noticed some vibrant, shiny, new red-leafed sprouts coming out of the ground in odd places around the extended perimeter of what had been the crabapple tree. They…
