Month: December 2019

1. Your Life

You exist. You have a life. How you live your life is largely up to you. Your actions or in actions, good or bad, have consequences. The choices you make or don’t make will shape the kind of journey your life will be.

The ‘Live’ series are one of the keys that shows you ways of thinking about yourself and your life. They show you the choices you can take or not take. They are the keys to whether you live like:

• A puppet with others pulling your strings and all you are resigned to doing is reacting to what others do to you

OR

• The puppeteer controlling the puppet so that you make the choices in shaping how your life turns out.

In this series on Live, I’ve written about my own lessons from experience, reading, reflecting and practicing the things I learnt. This moment of time in my life is a point in the journey of life where I’m contented and satisfied. Once you have lived more than 3 score years (60years), you acquire wisdom that is practical and useful. My purpose is to map out this wisdom in a way that future generations of descendants can access these ideas and practices if they so choose.

After all, if you have reached a stage in your life where you are not happy with your results, then you need to change how you have done things in the past. It is folly to continue to live in the manner that you have in the past if you don’t like the results you have to date.

If you reflect on where you are at this point in time in your journey of life and you don’t like the results that you have achieved, then you need to change what you do. You can safely assume that the results you have achieved in your life at this point in time are due to your past actions. If you continue to live as you have in the past, then you will continue getting the same results. If you want to change your results, you have to change your past practices.

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In the Trilogy of Life series, I’ve laid out the wisdom that I have acquired under the following 3 themes summarised below.

The ‘Live’ series explore your existence. This is the part of the Trilogy that has a big impact on how your journey of life pans out. The crucial components focus on building a strong base for your life. It helps you build a rock solid foundation that can give you an inner strength. Without it, you could become a spectator in life, watching what others do and being envious of their results. Worse, you could be on the couch wandering what’s going on and being oblivious to events around you. You risk being blind-sided by unfolding events. Often couch sitters are the victims of changing circumstances and are ill-prepared for what lies ahead.

The ‘Love’ series focuses on emotions and how to harness the energy that emotions produce. I’ve deliberately subtitled this section as ‘Love’ as I rate this emotion as the most crucial for a contented life. In other words, love all that you do. If you don’t love what it is you do then why do it? As an alternative, learn to love what you do or use it as a stepping stone towards an end. This will become clearer in future posts.

Scientist used to think that there were two brains, a thinking reasoning brain and an emotional feeling brain. The current view of the brain is that we all have a feeling brain that thinks.

The ‘Learn’ series is about our never ending capacity to learn and adapt.

“The brain is like a parachute. Both work at their best when opened”.

We all have the capacity to learn. The current state of dementia and Alzheimer’s thinking is that to keep our brains healthy we need to keep challenging our brains and keep learning. An inactive brain soon withers and slowly deteriorates. It’s like any other part of the body or set of skills

“If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it