The time-tested system for achieving life success by design, vs. random success by accident, trial, and error. — What Is Life Crafting? Life Crafting means skillfully shaping 5 key areas of your life incrementally over your lifetime, in line with a vision of what your life can be by knowing what you are going to do, then learning and practicing your skills using a clear recipe vs. living…

Working Your Way Through the Days — “ . . . there are certain basic elements in common use among the wide range of crafts practiced by humankind. …

What you learn and how you learn it are the schools you belong to. — We have two ways of learning something that control our lives: We directly experience something whether physically or a thought inside our mind, and we take it in. It begins when we are infants and stays with us as throughout our lives as our native, ‘built-in’ learning engine constantly feeding…

Would you leave a masterpiece watercolor painting in the rain? Protect your ‘life’ masterpiece against the effects of the Four Forces. — Since human beings first created the artifacts that uniquely mark our species among all others on the planet, there has been a recognition that whenever one sets out to create a masterpiece in any medium; tangible or intangible, there are forces at work in space-time that must be skillfully managed…

A Model for LIFE CRAFTING: Making a Masterpiece of Your Life — For thousands of years, human beings have organized, learned, and practiced our trades, occupations, and professions. What is generally overlooked in our modern world of complex career specializations, is the long-standing, ancient framework for skills development in use to this day in both the mind-crafts and hand-crafts practiced in every…

Recognizing the link between reflection and personal development. — As I have previously written describing ‘The Way of Craftsmanship’ as practiced for centuries across cultures, mindfully developing, and practicing the skill of ‘reflection’ is a key characteristic separating a skilled practitioner of a craft from a master of the craft. What Is Reflection? Reflection is a way of knowing and creating meaning…

The System to Make a Masterpiece of Your Life — In the past decade a new dimension in education is taking root in high schools, colleges and universities around the world including Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley and Rotterdam university to name just a few. A new subject called life crafting has been added to their curriculums that…

How one practitioner’s dedication to finding a cure for human suffering changed the world. — There is a story about a man named ‘Sid’ who was deeply concerned with the subject of mental health and well-being. Particularly with the cause of emotional suffering and distress which he saw everywhere in the world around him. At about age 30, he decided to dedicate his life to…

What you decide to learn and practice throughout your lifetime is your life curriculum. How well is yours organized, or not? — If you look at what you have learned thus far in your lifetime, the knowledge content you received in your early years up to age 12–14, probably came directly from your primary caregivers; your natural or surrogate parents (i.e.) your family. That curriculum was likely a combination of what they…