About Life Crafting: A Way of Thinking, Working, and Living
Life Crafting has appeared in the curriculums of colleges and universities around the world including Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, which is fundamentally changing what is being taught in our schools, and what education looks like in the 21st century.
These episodes introduce you to Life Crafting and how to use it as a tool to organize and manage your life curriculum, the contents you will learn and use for the rest of your life.
Learn more at: www.CharlesPaulCollins.com and www.udemy.com/course/life-crafting
This episode provides a complete overview of the Life Crafting framework that people all over the world are using to help organize the content of their lives, their Life Curriculum, and the journey of their lives through the four Life Phases.
Finally, this episode presents the idea of craftsmanship as practiced in the cultures of the world for thousands of years, as a focusing practice to perform everything you do in your life with skill.
Life Crafting is a Way of Thinking, Working, and Living.
1 Feb 2024
The Way of Craftsmanship
There is an old saying about life's purpose, "find something you do well to make you happy." That suits some people, and they might spend a lot of time looking for the one something to do well.
An alternative old saying is, "do well, everything you find." These people will be happy by performing well in whatever they are doing today. Craftsmanship is a way of thinking, working, and living.
1 Feb 2024
Life Phase 1: Apprenticeship | Age 14-25
Apprenticeship spans Ages 14-25 when young men and women are engaged full-time in the learning phase of life.
This episode looks at the main goal of the Apprenticeship Life Phase, and how to perform it well, or encounter significant setbacks when entering the workplace in the Journeywork Life Phase unprepared to perform with a high degree of skill.
1 Feb 2024
Life Phase 2: Journeywork | Age 25-45
The Journeywork life phase spans ages 25-45 the years when men and women practice their occupations, raise families, and distinguish themselves through demonstrated skill.
This episode presents the challenges of developing mental and physical stamina, to weather the Journeywork Life Phase, to enter the Masterworks Life Phase with strength to create masterpieces.
1 Feb 2024
Life Phase 3: Masterworks | Age 45-65
The Masterworks Life Phase: Ages 45-65. In this phase men and women are skilled across a range of life's subjects and making masterpieces of their own.
This episode presents the characteristics of Life Crafting in the Masterworks Life Phase.
1 Feb 2024
Life Phase 4: Mentorship | Age 65-85+
The Mentorship Phase of Life-as-a-Craft: Age 65-85+ is the time for gathering artifacts, heirlooms, and lessons learned from working on your life masterpiece to leave as a legacy to the next generation.
1 Feb 2024
Element 1: Family Heritage
Where we live, and where we come from, has a significant impact on who we are, who we become and what we leave as a legacy to future generations.
This episode explores Family & Personal Heritage and how it informs the way you will craft your life.
1 Feb 2024
Element 2: Family Management
Managing your household requires skills that make your home a safe and nurturing place for your family and includes:
Taking care of your physical home and garden
Setting guidelines for avoiding conflicts between family members
This episode will have you thinking about managing your home as a workshop where everyone can practice Life Crafting skillfully in their own way.
1 Feb 2024
Element 3: Family & Personal Finance
Managing money is a learned skill that can be improved over time. Most people don't consider the difference between the way they handle money as an individual, and how that might be different when they have a partner with different skills and ideas.
This episode looks at how to align different financial management styles to make your household flourish.
1 Feb 2024
Element 4: The Human Being
Every trade and craft has a primary material to be shaped. The Human Being is the organic primary material you will shape as you practice Life Crafting.
You are the craftsperson of your own life. Shape it skillfully.
1 Feb 2024
Element 5: Tools for Living
Tools are powerful instruments for harnessing energy within us, and around us. What tools are you using to craft your life, and have you trained to use them skillfully?
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