Hu's Wisdoms for Humanity and How to Throw a Fun "Life Conversations Party"
There are hundreds of especially valuable wisdoms, most of which have been said in slightly different ways by many different wise people over thousands of years.
In short, it is easy to spend a lifetime reading variants of the same wisdoms over and over from numerous different sources and get overly diverted from putting in the effort necessary to learn how to behave according to the lessons of the most important ones. There is nothing that you can read that will make your life any better... unless you ratchet down the searching and ratchet up the doing.
We are all born into different circumstances and thus have different potentials for what we may be able to do with our lives. But you do have a best possible life that is available to you when you do make the right choices and act on them: It is the life the future-you will be smiling at from your deathbed if the now-you is confident that you always, or usually, made the best choices available to you at every moment in your live.
Most wisdoms are highly conditional. In other words, in the wrong circumstances they teach exactly the worst advice possible. I believe you will find that all sixteen of "Hu's Wisdoms for Humanity" provide superb guidance for almost every possible situation.
You can read brief summaries of Hu's Wisdoms here.
And, how about throwing a refreshingly different kind of party that your guest will talk about long after the party is over?
Living the best possible life that we can manage is something that most anyone can agree is a great goal in life; Both for ourselves and for our children if we have any.
Read about hosting a fun and interesting "Life Conversations Party" below at a venue of your choosing.
Throw a One of Two Kinds of "Life Conversations Parties" for Your Most Valued Friends
You:
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Select and invite the guest list.
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Provide the location of your choosing.
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Arrange for whatever else you'd like to offer your guests like food and drink.
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Select which of the life skills categories below you'd like to offer your guests.
Laurie and I will:
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"Conduct" conversations in your chosen categories.
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Make sure that your guests are enjoying the discussion.
Emotional Health
If your own thoughts work against you, life will be difficult no matter how many other blessings you earn or are handed.
Relational/Social Health
Two heads are always better than one. Unless they aren't. One must learn basic skills of getting along with others. Two ears and one mouth AND non-judgementalism are a terrific start.
Physical Health
Most of us are born healthy "enough". But failing to learn the basics necessary to remain physically healthy will accrue into no longer healthy "enough". A happy mind allows a body to flourish, but an unhappy body will exert increasing friction on emotional flourishing.
Financial Health
Most of us will reach financial independence. Money actually is "almost everything" because even if you achieve the first three healths you are experiencing unnecessary friction every day of your life if you do not learn to budget and save according to your income level.
Time Management Skills
Are you feeling overwhelmed in life? Can't find enough time to get everything done? Ever wondered how some people run two, four or more companies in the same 24 hour period? Prioritizing our time and tasks is a skill that should be part of our basic education... but isn't. Living in continual stress is not a good life choic
The Two Party Types
Type 1: Primarily for Parents and Grandparents
The discussion will be managed to address the challenges of raising kids that will have enough knowledge and skills in the life skills categories prior to leaving their parents home around 18 years old.
Humans are not neurologically designed to need to change core habit patterns late in life once they've concretized. How does a guardian prioritize teaching the above life skills categories? What exactly should be taught? How? And at what point/age in their childhood development?
There are no "right answers", but these are considerations that are important for guardians to discuss to minimize the risk of older children with poor, and difficult-to-break behavioral patterns that can negatively impact the rest of their lives.
We are sure that you and your guests will feel deeply inspired and motivated to make tweaks within the family bubble that will improve the life trajectory of the children.
Type 2: For Adults Feeling Motivated to Fundamentally Improve Their Lives
The discussion will be managed to discuss one or more of the life skills categories per the preferences of whomever is organizing the party.
For one reason or another, few Americans enter adulthood with an adequate knowledge of the core knowledge one needs to know to be able to thrive in all five of the categories one could also call "Personal Health" categories.
What are your guest willing to share about things "they wish they had learned much sooner"? What exactly do they think the core skills of each of the chosen categories should have been for their parents and/or schools? Are their things they still really want to improve at? What are they and why?
There are no "right answers", but once we leave our parent's "nest", we have sole responsibility for pushing and prodding our knowledge and skills in the ways that we think will work out best for us in the long run.
Such discussions are not only highly-valuable, but they can also be so interesting that it is difficult to not feel inspired and motivated afterwards--- with many interesting things to ponder---and do after the party.