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.
First Volley: The traditional concept of “Willpower” really doesn’t work! “Any human construct offering infinite choices will result in poor choices, with each and all of us Invariably choosing what PLEASES us rather than that which is GOOD for us.” Quartermaster The Nutrisystem “System” is exemplary, based solely on this premise. NS advertising posts show…
In the end analysis, life is all about CONSEQUENCES … things that actually happen as a result of other things that did or did not happen. Some consequences are predictable. Do good things / useful things and good things result. Do stupid things or blatantly “bad” or wrong things and results can be devastating. While…
With so much dissonance, discord, dishegience and mental health challenges permeating the early days of a still nascent 21st Century, we seem to have lost sight of any meaning, purpose or zest for living. Some of this comes from a diminished need to fight for mere survival. And, of course, there’s no need or yearning…
Life is TOUGH! But it’s so much more straight forward and manageable when all you have to do is FILL IN THE BLANKS … providing, of course, you have the proper “goods” available to do the filling-in. I was chasing a “change of insurance” form across my desk for several days – because it wasn’t…
Doormat encountered in Sugarcreek, OH. So, what in the world would a “Good Kind of Weird” look like? I have a few suspicions: Does his/her homework … is basically a NERD! Has Boy Scout / Girl Scout tendencies. Isn’t really immersed in Social Media Watches/Listens to TED Talks rather than to cat videos on YouTube…
Life-coach gurus talk about “Life Balance” … a very helpful reflective concept for different people at different points in their personal lives … especially for when they feel “out of sorts”, “at loose ends” or “disconnected”. But many of us – and most of those at the top – function OFF-BALANCE most of the time…
“Communitation” is the fine art of PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. It is the art of intentionally, actively and proactively participating in a thriving, collaborative COMMUNITY. Lee Shulman Bierer [ www.collegeadmissionsstrategies.com ], provides an excellent example of “Communitation” applied to the process of seeking admission to college. Her recommendations include: Watch online videos and take virtual tours…
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…
The best “insider” advice for success that most people have traditionally given aspiring emerging generations generally isn’t “Work Hard” and “Become Irreplaceable/Indispensible”. It is: “It’s who you know!” However, I’ve found, personally, it’s been a lot more about WHO KNOWS YOU … and WHAT YOU CAN DO! It’s not about “schmoozing”. It’s about showing up,…
The development and production of Self-Driving cars became all the rage at the beginning of the 21st Century. Tesla was early out of the gate, and “autonomous trucks” soon followed: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a30196644/self-driving-truck-cross-country/ The stakes are extremely high. [However, one has to wonder: Whatever became of railroads – where whole bunches of unmanned “cars” and “trucks” are…
I have been haunted by this intractable, plaintive cry of employers: “We can’t retain employees – some leaving after only a day on the job!” Landscaper After spending 3 hours a day on several very modest landscaping projects at our new, down-sized house, I think I finally GET IT! I would not, personally, last more…
There’s LIGHT and there’s DARK. In the beginning, there was only DARK. DARK is the default and DARK is passive but it is MASSIVE. LIGHT requires an active source and has to be constantly generated to PUSH THROUGH DARK. This requires tremendous amounts of energy input and expenditure. DARK only absorbs energy. In the extreme…
