Life Management

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for taking the time to read my question and respond :)

A few ideas I'd like to float by you here.

1. "The purpose of Life is to gain wisdom..." - Given the aim is to experience and express the greatest and ever greater love, wellness and fillment. The Life Sequence (LMBOK) is the sequence that most and ever-more-logically/wisely yields this, which is through 2 ways; ever-greaterly monistically perceiving dualistically-perceived traits, actions, inactions and experiences and through manifesting personal, unfulfilled, meaningful voids. (Refer to the Values Factor by John Demartini for more on Human Axiology and Monistic Perception=Love).

2. "Increase your emotional intelligence." - See above point regarding monistic perception - refer to John Demartini on youtube on the topic of Emotions.

3. "Processes do not reign my decisions" - I believe the person that has the greatest ownership, accountability, responsibility, management and execution of their personal, unfulfilled, meaningful voids, is most poised, present and powerful. Therein, they are best-positioned to make executive decisions, which involve the usage of positive-ROI Processes.

4. Adhering to the principles of auditability, visibility, transparency, minimum-viable effort and a few others, wouldn't you/I/and everyone, benefit from seeing the Next Best Action on a Personal Life Dashboard, that is the best actionable action we could take right now to output the greatest personal fulfillment?

5. Wouldn't it be more valuable to rely on external systems (an exocortex) to capture, record and present this information to us rather than utilizing the CPU of our conscious brains which could be better used for creative thought and executive decision making?

6. If some Projects can be managed according to a 'Lite' PM theory/template, than all can, right? It just comes down to the ratio of input:ouput, and ensuring a positive ROI/yield on inputted effort, as Keith eluded to "I only use the minimum of PM that is necessary." In such cases, the degree of Lite PM template filled in/used, would be suited to the size and complexity of the Project in question. If/when I have a smaller, simpler personal void such as maintaining my health or playing sport 3 times a week, I can select NA to many of the Lite Life Mgmt template steps and fill in the bare necessity. However doing so still allows me to effectively own, take accountability and responsibility for, manage and be the executive of my life utitilizing a top down view over all my life voids, their relative value, and the next best actionable action at any given time (referring to David Allens philosophies a bit here on this point to name one author).

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Thank you
Josh

Josh,

ad 1 - even John Demartini says on his website that he shares the wisdom he gained. I do not believe in the philosophical division of matter and mind, or, dualism, nor in monism, when they are one, it just does not matter for me.
Your stated aims (love, wellness, fillment) are well reached by being wise, and impossible without wisdom. Other possible aims too. Wisdom for me is the capability to understand and master the pragmatics of life.

ad 2 increasing your emotional intelligence helps to build wisdom pragmatically (think alone empathy to understand other better9

ad 3 processes, ROI and other you mentioned are concepts of rationality. Rationality is a western mental model and not even agreed to what it is. A human may have a rational mind and it may be located in the pre-frontal cortex. As we know, all of the brain is involved in perception making and decisions, so no single decision is indeed purely rational. So beware of process oriented thinking.

ad4 to be honest, no. I resist next best action suggestions and rely on my own wisdom.

ad5 wish you luck with an exocortex, I opt out. Though I admit that digitalization and ubiquitous networking have an impact as input to our brains. Some perceive this as VUCA and negative. I rather see it as interesting. But my value of autonomy (freedom) prevents me from outsourcing decision making.

ad6 the wish to predict the future is understandable, but the ability to handle any future means wisdom, and eliminates the need for this wish

Maybe not the right forum to discuss philosophy

Thomas

Hi Kiron,

Thank you for taking the time to read my question and respond :)

In response to your points, I believe there does exist a result which humans strive for, from beginning to end and I believe it is generic/universal. My personal belief is that the reason human beings exist is to experience and express the greatest and ever greater degrees of love, wellness and fulfillment. Love here defined as the sensation/experience of Oneness/Wholeness. Wellness / Wellbeing being inherently known and Fulfillment being the sum of the weighted fillment of one's ever-evolving 'Active' portfolio of unfulfilled, meaningful voids.

As such, I personally believe our aim 'Love' can be experienced and expressed through 2 ways; one through monistically perceiving traits, actions, inactions and experiences (refer to Dr. John Demartini's work on the Quantum Collapse Method) and through the physical filling/manifesting of said voids through action.

For example, take a simple void of; "I perceive I am not a billionaire". I could either balance my lopsided perception and see exactly where and how I am a 'Billionaire' right here and now and thus the Perceiver, Perceiving and Perceived become one and the same and I experience Oneness/Wholeness, aka love. Or, I could take action to increase my financial wealth until it reaches 1 Billion dollars. Either way, I started with an idenfitied, personal, unfulfilled, meaningful void, I prepared/planned that voids manifestation, I executed/manifested the void and I closed and archived the void.

The steps to question-identify-define-breakdown/plan-execute and closeout that void are the same identical steps I would take for Manifesting any void, in any area of life, roughly speaking, applying Ceteris Paribus. Similar to how PM theory - the Processes and Knowledge Areas remain the same for the majority of projects and then get refined by the PM on an individual project basis.

Now that it is possible to quantify and qualitatively; record, score, track, measure, report, refine, template, share and guide others in Life Mgmt best practice, allowing the recipients of said Void-Fillment-Templates to search, access, import and refine-as-needed the Life-Mgmt-Void-Portfolio-Template and Void-Specific-Templates.

As PM theory remains mostly universally applicable, so too do humans share a fairly consistent nature, governed both by universal and human laws or principles. As such best practise is deducable and templatable (saves time and yields a 80% working template) and then refineable as needed (20% input yielding 80% of a unique, personal template) for the individual governing and executing their unique projects....

I believe Personal Void Portfolio Mgmt, (VPM), Void Mgmt (VM) and Task Mgmt (TM) are a series of definable knowledge areas and process groups that can be used as a basis from which we can share, assimilate and refine Personal-Void-Fillment-Theory and Practice.

I have been managing my life in such a way these past two years, and while incomplete I truly believe a Life Mgmt Body of Knowledge (LMBOK), as well as a Life Management Professional Qualification (LMP) and Life Operating Systems (LOS) do have their place as theoretical and practical tools of service and value to us humans.

I have touched briefly on a number of personal beliefs/hypothesis here which you relate to along the agree-disagree spectrum.

I would love to share with any who are willing and eager, what I've done so far in terms of defining LMBOK, LMP, LOS and working collaboratively both theoretically and practically to refine workable solutions.

Eagerly awaiting your thoughts.

Thank you
Josh

Hey Keith,

Thanks for replying mate.

"For projects and tasks that are only me though, I'm not reporting status so I can get away with less."

... My thinking here is that what gets measured gets done, if we have visibility and accountability and if we systematize our approach to initiating, planning, executing and closing out projects and have planned v actual data, we are empowered to analyze and deduce effective lessons learned which can refine our theoretical and practical methodologies in future. so the idea that I live my life without such visibility, transparency, accountability, data, ability to effectively, objectively and accurately refine, and if I'm not doing this and don't have this data, then likely others are also not capturing this data, and then we have less ability to share mutually-beneficial lessons learned with one another...

As long as there is a positive ROI regarding required input to systematize and maintain a systematic management of my personal portfolio of voids throughout my life, I greatly desire and benefit from having the outputted data from which I can review and refine my theory and actions throughout the course of my entire life and share these with others and receive in-turn such lessons learned...

Awaiting your thoughts :)

Josh

Hi Sheila,

Thank you for reading and responding :)

I'd like to float an idea by your imagination if you'd be willing. Imagine you wake up in the morning, do your morning routine, login to your Life Operating System and view your personal, up-to-date Life Dashboard.

From here, you could view how you're tracking in life, overall and within each area of life, and at any level - portfolio, specific void or specific task. Right in front of your eyes is a clickable Next Best Actionable Action.

As David Allen eluded to in GTD, when you have everything capturred, inputted and processed inside one operating system, your conscious mind is free'd from this burden and with music playing in the background, at peace with everything you are not currently doing, you complete the highest-priority action, and then the next etc, all while adhering to your personal beliefs and preferred working style.

Eagerly awaiting your thoughts,

Thank you
Josh :)

Hi Arlene,

Thank you for reading and responding :)

I too have devised and used an adhoc, self-defined project-mgmt and task-mgmt, bottom-up methodology for a long time. However, what gets measured gets done and we are best served by keeping our chief aim forefront of mind. Therefore, utilizing a top-down approach can provide us with that clarity and certainty that a bottom up approach can never yield. Instead, its all too common to feel like a hamster continuously running, completing a never-ending list of growing tasks.

Eagerly awaitng your thoughts :)

Thank you
Josh

Hi Veronica,

Thank you for taking the time to read and respond :)

In response to your points, I refer you to my response to Arlene above.

Eagerly awaiting your thoughts :)

Thank you
Josh