CYVIN

So, I have been in this professional mentoring/coaching program for executives for a while now and I've learned a lot, though I've only been in it for a few months.

The basic concepts are:
- Determining what is important to you in your life & where you want your life to go
- Developing activities that support the things that are important in your life
- Changing your thinking around where you want to go, rather than where you are
- Determining what your "gift" is, and developing it
- Determining what skills you need to get to where you want to go, and spending the right amount of time to get really good at those skills.
I'll post more about it as I go along.

So here's some more information:

Identify the areas of your life that are most important to you, and visualize how the will be important to you in 30 years, and what kind of effect that will have on your life 30 years from now.

Then, think about all of the things that you need to do to make each one of those areas become what you imagine.

It's really a process of looking at your life like a project.  Identify what you want the end product to look like, then work backward on what things you will have to do to get there.  It makes a lot of sense.  We all want our lives to turn out a certain way, but we mostly float through life hoping that our "dreams" will somehow magically come true.  That would be pretty unreasonable from a project view.  You would not undertake a large-scale project without a good deal of planning and scope definition and whatnot and just "hope" that the end product comes out how you imagined.  It seems pretty crazy to think it could ever happen, but almost everyone does that with their lives.  Including me. 

Hopefully it is helpful.  I'll say that the course I'm going through is & has been interesting.  It's a lot better than one of the week long deals - after I take one of those classes, I may act differently for a week or two, but this is spread out over a year and they make you pretty much constantly be thinking about these things.

Obviously, it's still your life.  I wouldn't work in all the drinking and sex into a normal project

Speaking of drinking, I found a great drinking trick - taking vodka and filtering through a britta (charcoal filter) pitcher about 6 times.  It is SMOOTH. 

What I find smooth is Liquorice liqueur, like Opal Nera Sambuca. That slips down very nicely.