Thank You very much for this email.
I think that it will help our groups in our meditations.
I use to coordinate volunteers groups in Toughlove Groups in Brazil.
Paulo
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De: Robert J. Chapman, Ph.D. <chapman@LASALLE.EDU>
Para: DRUGHIED@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU <DRUGHIED@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU>
Data: Segunda-feira, 10 de Julho de 2000 09:49
Assunto: A few Words of Wisdom
>A friend forwarded this to me. I share it as a FYI and possible handout
>for students/clients.
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert
>
>
>RULES FOR LIFE: The 12 New Rules
>
>
>By Frederic M. Hudson, Ph.D., President and Pam McLean,
>Ph.D.,Vice-President,
>The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.
>Revised, June 2000
>
>
>1. No one owes you anything-not the government, your employer, your family,
>or your spouse. Although the world around you is less and less
>definite and predictable, it is no less valuable and mysterious. To rejoice
>in living you must invent your own future, entrepreneur your life, and
>expect surprises.
>--
>
>2. Global change is the major force in your life, and in the lives of
>everyone on earth. We are all in training for a new era for all humanity.
>Don't whine about it. Take advantage of the expanding possibilities now
>available
>to you in our world of constant flow.
>--
>
>3. You have no ultimate safety, security or guarantees, so don't expect
>any. What you have are endless opportunities to rearrange your priorities
>for work, play, and life. Choose wisely, and expect more choices to
>follow.
>--
>
>4. Your life is an adventure, a journey through time. There are no lasting
>arrival points and few lasting endings. Everything is flow - you just keep
>moving, day by day, and week by week, following your internal compass for
>adventuring through the long haul of ninety years or more. You live
>on a boat in a river, flowing in white water from the alleged reference
>points of yesterday to the utter unknown of tomorrow. Learn how to say
>"hello" and "good-bye" with grace and style.
>--
>
>5. Know how to recycle yourself. Live each chapter of your life fully, then
>invest in a transition and begin the next chapter. Weave, unravel, and
>reweave your life, over and over. No matter what your age or situation,
>design your future as your manifest destiny.
>--
>
>6. The best way to guide your life through infinite change is to follow
>your own values and vision. Like a rudder, your values will keep you on a
>course your integrity prefers. Like a sail, your vision will pull you ahead
>into legitimate expectations.
>--
>
>7. Your best future happens when you have the courage to be: reach, learn,
>risk, dare, leap. Embrace the unknown ahead. Live on the outer edge of your
>possibilities, not on the inner edge of your security. Be active, not
>passive. Lean into the wind.
>--
>
>8. Here is how to conduct your journey: Have a long term purpose with
>short-term goals. Be definite and flexible. Trust the ocean but stay
>in charge of your boat. Ride the waves.
>--
>
>9. Refuse to be defined and consumed by your career work. It's an important
>part of the whole journey, but it's not the journey itself. Your
>deepest agenda is your soul's work, your holistic callings to create
>success and caring in all the parts of your life.
>--
>
>10.Everyone on earth is linked to the same destiny. We share the same air,
>water, food, and capacities for total destruction. We are in each
>other's hands, one for all and all for one. Interdependence is our
>expectation.
>--
>
>11.Learn how to grow older and better. Achieve mastery as a human
>being-model wholeness, wisdom, and caring. Rewrite the myths of aging with
>your evolving presence and leadership. Be grateful. Leave a legacy that
>makes a difference.
>--
>
>12. As you find better rules - and you will - replace these rules with
>them.
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