This year ends in a 7. If you’re superstitious or a little loose with statistics, that makes us due for another financial crisis. The biggest one-day stock drop in Wall Street history happened in 1987. The Asian crisis was in 1997. And the worst global meltdown since the Great Depression got rolling in 2007 with the failure of mortgage lenders Northern Rock in the U.K. and New Century Financial in the U.S: reported by Bloomberg Businessweek
Many of us believe that when we graduate from high school, college or university, our education is finished. But our true schooling has only begun as we shift from word lessons to world lessons.
World lessons teach through experience. The lessons of experience are always positive, even if the experience is not. A book can point the way, but we must still make the journey. No matter what I may have learned in books, I have also lost face before I found wisdom, fell to my knees before I looked up to the heavens, and faced my darkness before I saw the light.
We feel frustrated when we don't get what we want, when we get what we don't want, and sometimes, even when we get exactly what we want.
Imagine you're 95 years old and ready to die. On your death bed, you're given a great gift: the ability to travel back in time - to talk to the "2017 you" who is ready is article, the ability to help this "2017 you" lead a better life. The 95-yeaold-old you understands what was really important and what wasn't, what mattered and what didn't. What advise would this wise "old you" have for the "2017 you" who is reading this article? Jot down a few words of what the old you would be saying to the younger you.
Once you've written these words down, the rest is simple: just do whatever you wrote down. Make it your resolution for 2017.
We can also gain lifetimes of street-smarts and higher wisdom by paying attention to the direct experience of others, as we learn from our own experience.
Over the years, I've witnessed people undergo miraculous transformation. I would like to hear about how you'd made changes in your own life.
Many of us believe that when we graduate from high school, college or university, our education is finished. But our true schooling has only begun as we shift from word lessons to world lessons.
World lessons teach through experience. The lessons of experience are always positive, even if the experience is not. A book can point the way, but we must still make the journey. No matter what I may have learned in books, I have also lost face before I found wisdom, fell to my knees before I looked up to the heavens, and faced my darkness before I saw the light.
We feel frustrated when we don't get what we want, when we get what we don't want, and sometimes, even when we get exactly what we want.
Imagine you're 95 years old and ready to die. On your death bed, you're given a great gift: the ability to travel back in time - to talk to the "2017 you" who is ready is article, the ability to help this "2017 you" lead a better life. The 95-yeaold-old you understands what was really important and what wasn't, what mattered and what didn't. What advise would this wise "old you" have for the "2017 you" who is reading this article? Jot down a few words of what the old you would be saying to the younger you.
Once you've written these words down, the rest is simple: just do whatever you wrote down. Make it your resolution for 2017.
We can also gain lifetimes of street-smarts and higher wisdom by paying attention to the direct experience of others, as we learn from our own experience.
Over the years, I've witnessed people undergo miraculous transformation. I would like to hear about how you'd made changes in your own life.
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