Ralph Carlson Blog

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.

But surely you want to be proactive

I have probably spent too much time in business meetings in my lifetime, attended too many business conferences, read too many corporate mission statements and written too many personal development plans over my career but I convulse when ever I hear the word proactive. [continue reading…]