My Life Jouneys
My life journeys to where I am today has been a strange one. I've been a conservationist all my life. It is why I chose to become a forester. I spent my career trying to maintain the ecosystem resilience needed to protect our local watersheds.
When I retired, I joined our local Neighborhood Board and was asked to chair their emergency preparedness committee. It was a natural evolution from wild land fire management to community disaster management. I took classes offered by various government agencies and they all said the same thing. We have to build resiliency into our lives and into our communities. We cannot depend on the Government to help us in a disaster. That led me to understand how important it is to build resilience into our lives.
Consider your personal resilience, your financial resilience and your local environmental resilience. Are you and your family prepared to deal with any emergency the world throws at you? Do you have the financial resources to deal with an emergency? Are you living in a healthy environment? What small changes can you make that will improve the quality of your life.
The Blue Zone project has identified 9 factors that influence longevity. 20% of our longevity is influence by our genes. 80% depends on the quality of our environment. What we do and how we do it has a major impact on how long and how well we live. The quality of our older years depends on how we live today. People who know why they get up in the morning, people who know what they want to accomplish in their lives, on average live a decade longer than people who drift.
In each aspect of my life, i.e. personal, family, work, community service... I look at the most important three things I need to do. Then from every thing in my important list I pick the top three. They are the things I concentrate on. When I complete one goal, I go back to my list and add the most important thing from that list to my top three. I block out time each day to work on my three most important things. Everything else is relegated to the normal chaos of life.
I do a daily review:
- what important things do I want to accomplish tomorrow?
- what urgent things must I do that my interfere with accomplishing those important things?
- what did I accomplish today?
- what did I learn?
- what negative thoughts did I have and how did I replace them with more positive thoughts?
- what could I have done better?
Keep a daily bullet journal where I record all these things. It is very motivating to look at how far I have come rather than how far I have to go to accomplish my goals.
My business niche is helping people understand trends that will affect their lives and plan a life and career that will help them maneuver through this fast changing world.
I try to track trends. Globalization is here. Automation is coming on fast. Only people who are adaptable and who have a broad range of skills will be employable. Everyone else will be working, or not working, in the gig economy. I help people who are in work transition plan their lives and their careers. The internet has become a vital tool to help anyone share their message with the world. I believe everyone needs a business they can fall back on in an emergency. My websites are designed to help them make that transition.
My business is helping people address their problems with a positive life plan and strategies to live their life with purpose. I am currently developing two websites:
- addresses personal development with emphasis on creating a resilient life; and
- helps people find their business niche and develop an online business.
You will find my websites in my WA profile. I hope they are a help to you. Send me a note about what you found helpful and what I can do to help you address problems I may not have thought of. If your comment is about being more resilient, your comments are welcome.
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This piqued my interest in your websites...I'll be checking them out. The idea of a resilient life sounds beautiful.
Debbie
Great post Bob.
Going to check out your sites right now.
You may want to proof read the above though as a few words run into each other (sorry I can be a bit pedantic about these things. :) )
Thank you Bald Eagle. I ran the abc checker three times before I made this post. After you pointed out the errors I had to run it three more times to catch everything (I hope)
I'following you.
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Bill, I did not know we had so much in common. I live in a rural area, in the Inland Pacific Northwest. Our land and the small lake on it is certified organic. My husband has 40 beehives and sells organic honey. I'm considered the preparedness queen on our road. And I teach preparedness classes at church and in the community as well. When our power goes down, we're left without wifi, phone service,( we do not receive cell phone coverage) well water, etc. There is only one road out, and if trees or water block it, horseback in the only alternative. A bug out bags is a must. Someday we will have to share stories.
your friend Sandy