Life Skills: Find Meaning, Purpose, Success & Happiness
What you'll learn
- Learn the one-word universal definition of the meaning of life and use it your way
- Make sure that everyone can be your teacher
- Be able to identify developmental tasks and successfully meet them
- Learn life wisdom from Montaigne, Maslow, Sartre and Brown
- Design the rest of your life
- Know the difference between Meaning OF life and Meaning IN life and which is right for you
Requirements
- Realize you have one shot at life and you should do it right
- You should enjoy mulling over important ideas and then taking action
Description
The secret to living your ideal life isn't a secret.
WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING (AI): Learners appreciate the course for its deep exploration of the concept of purpose in life, with many highlighting how it challenged them to introspect on their values and contributions to others. They found the course to provide a framework to evaluate personal beliefs, examine past experiences, and create objectives that give their lives meaning. The teachings, referencing philosophers like Plato and Nietzsche, were particularly valued for encouraging learners to perceive life with new, constructive perspectives beyond their limitations. Learners recounted how the course instilled a sense of purpose, leading to a more fulfilling life experience.
This course: LIFE SKILLS: FIND MEANING, PURPOSE, SUCCESS & HAPPINESS
After this course:
You will finally be able to live your ideal life and be able to continually improve it.
What is the right way for you to live? Should the right way change as you grow older and learn? Do you stick with the tried and true? Who knows what's best for you? This course says that only you know the right way. And this course will help you be confident in your choices.
There are four usual ways of living:
1. Making it up as you go along and at some point, often too late, realizing you've missed out.
2. Living as well as you can day by day, working hard, keeping your nose to the grindstone.
3. Deciding early your life purpose and sticking to it.
4. Deciding your life purpose and continually refining it.
Most people live versions of 1 and 2. Life isn't easy and just getting through the day demands just about all you have. As American writer Henry David Thoreau once said, "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." These hard-working yet struggling people, the majority of people in the world, can still enjoy portions of an ideal life.
Luckier are those who pursue #3. Mother Teresa comes to mind (and just about every rockstar). With the passion of youth that lasts for a lifetime, these people throw themselves into a purpose-driven life.
Rarer are those than find purpose and continue to improve how they live it. These people can reach the height of success in one area, then dedicate themselves somewhere else with equal or greater effect. Many women do this almost without thinking about it. A single mom makes it through college and begins a career, then starts her own business before giving it all up to become a doting grandmother.
Which are you at the moment?
This course will help you find your way to living a life of purpose no matter what your circumstances.
What makes this course different? I have spent sixty years seeking the secrets to living the ideal life. I help thoughtful/insightful people fulfill their potential by exploring significant life challenges. The goal is a life of enlightened uncertainty. This course assumes even people who knowingly are living their best life will be uncertain that they are. And this is a good thing. Tomorrow is not to repeat today's successes, but another opportunity to be better: always wondering, always growing, always enjoying. At the end of this course, you will be able to create and continually refine your core values in life.
As mentioned, I did that for myself beginning when I was 17. And as in #4, I have been refining it ever since. I received a doctorate in psychology in 1973, which included classes with Abraham Maslow famous for the "Hierarchy of Needs" and Viktor Frankl, perhaps the best-known name in the field as the author of the world-wide best seller, Man's Search for Meaning.
If you are searching to find or enhance the meaning of your life, take a moment to examine this material. I will help you create your ideal life.
A Set of Courses for Exceptional Lives
My LIFE SKILLS courses are ideal if you want to live a unique, independent life, separate from the herd. They’re for you if you seek a full and meaningful life but aren’t sure how to do that.
Life isn’t easy. How can you know with confidence you’re doing it right? You have searched, but don’t yet feel totally confident. A thousand books and courses offer a thousand ideas. My courses go a step farther. I don't tell you what to think, but what to think about.
My courses follow that old saying, "if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." I teach both skills and concepts. If you want both training and an education, this is the place, tools and ideas. Each course provides ideas to explore and skills to try out. You choose the topic and in about three hours or less, you’ll acquire advanced life skills, enabling you to build a life unique to you.
This set of courses is ideal for these topics: Personal Development, Life Purpose, Motivation, Communication Skills, Listening Skills, Relationship Building, Positive Psychology and Spirituality.
Who this course is for:
- Intended learners are those who seek a sense of value and worth in life
- For the curious
- For those who do not want to be ordinary
Instructor
I love teaching and love helping my students succeed.
SUMMARY
1969 Began teaching college students
1973 Earned PHD in psychology: 20+ years clinical and 30+ years organizational development
1979 First created my business, Collective Wisdom, Inc.
1989 Began writing first of 25 books: 4 novels, 3 children’s books and 18 nonfiction including business and life skills
2021 Began teaching on Udemy; 15 courses so far, on business and life skills
I am a "focused" educator. Instead of wide-ranging 20-hour Master Courses, I create courses focused on the most important elements of a subject. To build a high-performing team, I teach you how to use the Four-Part Teaming Model; for decision-making, the five-step Harnessing the Speed of Thought tool. Of the life-skills I teach, many I created, others have proven themselves for over a thousand years. You will learn what you need to know to live your best life.
I don’t necessarily teach the best known or most popular method either, but based on my experience, you will learn the best method. After 55+ years, I know what has value, what works and what doesn’t work.
My background includes clinical psychology, behavioral medicine, sports psychology, university teaching, leadership & organizational development, business management consulting, and Lean Thinking leadership. I've taught at the University of California, San Diego, the University of Washington in Seattle, and St. Andrews University in Scotland among others as well as conducting numerous workshops and conferences on three continents. My books include: (business) Transparent Management, The HST Model for Change, Earn Their Loyalty, Lean Thinking 4.0 and Mistake Proofing Leadership, (personal growth) Personal Wisdom, (novels) My First Ten Days in Heaven and Mayhem at the Open, (and golf), The Way of Golf and The Golf Gods.
Although now 79 and mostly retired, I am passionate about my new effort of creating online learning experiences targeting business leaders and people who want to add value to their lives. My courses will make your life easier, more productive, more enjoyable and meaningful.