Wisdom from Living

Are you looking for guidance and wisdom, but aren’t comfortable with traditional sources?

* Family members
* Friends
* Rabbi, priest, ministers

And you don’t need a:

* Psychiatrist
* Psychotherapist
* Social worker

Then consider a holistic and integrative source capable of helping you see your life from a broad perspective.

If you’re looking for guidance and insights to help you focus on issues and probable outcomes, please call me.

My goal is to work with you to get a fresh, perhaps unconventional perspective and life plan.

Living Wisdom

In 1966, I attended graduate school in Berkeley, California. I worked part-time in the evenings at the information desk of a large retirement center. Frequently, I used my free time to study. And just as frequently, an older resident would stop by, sit down, and begin a long, one-sided conversation. At first I was frustrated and irritated by the interruptions.

However, it occurred to me that there might be much to learn from these elders’ experiences and wisdom. I began to question them.

“Now that you are in your elder years and have time to look back upon your life, what were the most valuable lessons you learned?”

“If you could give your grandchildren some guidance and wisdom for living their life, what would that be?”

As an experiential learner, I found their lessons and wisdom of life fascinating. Being inexperienced, I did not have the skills to ask them probing questions to guide the course of their revelations. Had I the skills I have now, I could have written volumes about those conversations. Since then, I have kept a “wisdom folder” in my computer to store the bits and pieces of wisdom and advice that I’ve gathered along the way.

Of course, I’ve also had to examine my own life of mistakes, failures, successes, accomplishments, awards, and demerits.

Where does wisdom come from?

Wisdom comes from reflecting upon experiences we have had in life and distilling them as truths, lessons, and tests. Some of the greatest experiences of all times are occurring right now. The key is take the time to reflect on our experiences so that we understand what they are telling us.

Having been a student, farmer, son, father, brother, fireman, correctional counselor, husband, housewright, holistic life coach, author, publisher, friend, Viet Nam veteran, military officer, inventor, small business owner, business partner, manufacturing engineer, househusband, non-profit organizer and founder, and political futurist, all of these roles have given me a great range of experiences to reflect upon.

Learning the lessons and gaining the wisdom from them, I have a deep commitment for seeking lessons and wisdom from all sources. Life has been tough, and it has given me the desire to share these insights with others.

Quotations of Wisdom

Here are a few of the best bits of wisdom I’ve received, made all the more poignant by their timely arrival in my life.

A year from now, will the problem I have today be as big as I think is today?
 ~~ Anon.

A mistake, error, failure, use of poor judgment - these simply say, ‘Not this way,’ and move on.
 ~~ Anon.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
 ~~ Anon.

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you; and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
 ~~ Joseph Campbell, The Power Of Myth

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
 ~~ Rollo May

Checklist for being a spiritual being:

Humble	Sincere
Authentic	Genuine
Balanced	Centered
Grounded	Energized

... your power and your ability to create reality through your will ends where your fear begins.
 ~~ Barbara Marciniak, Bringers of the Dawn

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
 ~~ Will Rogers

...peace is the social yardstick measuring civilization's advancement...
 ~~ The Urantia Book, p. 783; 70:1.1

When you give up your dream ...you die.
 ~~ Flashdance

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.
 ~~ Sören Kierkegaard

In essence leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
 ~~ Vance Packard, The Pyramid Climbers

To the travelers of time perfect answers are revealed in time. Proceed in faith, step by step, and the perfect answers you desire will become known to you.
 ~~ (Author)

Wisdom comes from reviewing the past and rehearsing the future.
 ~~ John Grinder

The results you are getting is the message you are sending.
 ~~ Robert Dilts

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
 ~~ e.e. cummings

You do what you are.
 ~~ Along Came A Spider

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
 ~~ “Boss Drum”, by Shamen, Angus/West

You have to lose your religion to gain your true spirituality.
 ~~ Meinhardt G
 

If you have a “wisdom” you would like to share, please sent it to me: dr@boulderlifecoach.com Your contribution will be appreciated.

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