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Unifying Principles
Unifying Principles: What’s the glue that holds your life together?
Who am I? Where am I? And what do I want?
The roar of competing demands is loud, excruciatingly loud in our culture. Work, family, primary relationships, friendships, maintenance of ourselves and everything we own all require our attention. We have more access to more information, choices and things than we can possibly process. I heard an informal survey on a morning radio program that more than 70% of us think we will “have more time next week.”
Most of us are externally driven. I often ask clients and students to show me their schedule books. Invariably, they first list the places they have to be, where someone else is expecting them to show up. Work, dental appointments, classes- all of this is listed first and often it is the only type of material in a day timer. Take a random sampling. Ask ten people if you can have a look at their appointment book. I’ll bet nine of ten will only record the “have to’s”. It’s a never ending ride of one commitment to the next and the next and the next and all of the in between spaces are a blur of filler. Read the rest of this entry »