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Lifestyle design is personal.
It has to be built upon your feelings, your needs and most of all your passion. It isn’t something that anyone can create for you or plug you into a cookie cutter model. That is why the models you used in the business environment are poor choices when you create your lifestyle design, particularly if you are retired. The buzzwords may have seemed to hold meaning in the workplace but they were mostly a cover for manipulation and coercion. The word proactive is a good example. Consultants urge proactivity but when you did deeper, the word is a meaningless con job. I hate the word proactive.
Another word we could all live without is paradigm, as in a paradigm shift. How about saying a change in assumptions?
I’ve always wondered about being proactive. Isn’t that the same as simply paying attention?
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Bob,
I don’t so much like the meaning of paradigm but I love to say the word. It feels good in the mouth and on the tongue so I give it a pass. Proactive has nothing going for it. It is an awkward mouthful and is manipulative.
Wow Ralph…You’re really letting it rip! Love it, and keep it coming. I too do not like the word proactive, cause it sounds too much like prophylactic. Although I like to make plays on words, sometimes I’m subject to an “Early Alzheimer Moment” and just flat out say the wrong thing at the wrong time. Don’t want folks to think I have a potty-mouth.
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Hansi,
You are just being modest, as usual. You are either talented at creating malapropismistic speech or are subject to spoonerism, Don’t fear it because you are in good company.