Have you reached the age of 40 and possibly lived beyond it?
If so, do you regard yourself as fortunate?
If you have not yet reached the age of 40, how do you imagine your life when you reach that immensely important age?
Regardless of your current age, if you already have an authentic identity, it will be consistent with your natural characteristics rather than the expectations formerly imposed upon you through other people's cultural practices.
The wise expression of authenticity is conveyed through carefully considered moral choices.
Each week, since the beginning of the year, you have had a chance to experience the outline of each episode in this important series.
The responsibility for filling out that outline into something more substantial has been your own, in accordance with all reasonable and relevant laws and courtesies.
How have you been investing in thorough assessments this year?
How do you usually assess needs in relation to investing?
How do you usually assess trustworthiness in relation to investing?
How do you tell the difference between a door, a lock and a handle?
How do you tell the difference between a key, a guide and a product of nature?
Have you been wondering what to do about your most disastrous investments in travel, tourism and the mass media?
Have you been wondering what to do about your other disastrous investments, speculations and gambles?
Have you made any appreciative comments on any of the investment notes carefully produced and presented in the library here for your philanthropic benefit?
How do you know your expectations here are neither unrealistic nor cruel?
Good investments always require clear distinctions between one thing or person and another.
Have you ever contributed to the destruction of a much-loved world by
increasing the likelihood of catastrophic events immensely detrimental
to it?
Have you ever knocked down a much-loved cottage, or even an entire village, in order to build an airport runway, or a holiday resort, or a grand hotel, or a car park,or to participate in the latest trends in landscaping, road building, power generation, mining, shopping developments, sporting facilities and/or water storage?
How do you usually assess the effectiveness of your investments?
How do you invest in understanding your emotions?
Do you consider yourself to have high standards?
If you have direct investments in businesses, what is most worthy about those businesses, and your investments in them?
How well have you offloaded your unethical investments and other unethical sources of income?
Are you a successful investor in socially and environmentally responsible practices?
Do you know how to tell the difference between a patron and an investor?
You will probably already be aware that there is no point in raising funds for unworthy pursuits.
How do you usually assess worthiness?
Investments are not necessarily associated with competition.
- The Cottage and Investments - Part One
- The Cottage and Investments - Part Two
- The Cottage and Investments - Part Three
- The Cottage and Investments - Part Four
There are many different ways to assess value.
Do you consider your acquisition of knowledge to be a pleasure or a burden?
- Intelligently Frugal Pleasures - Part One
- Intelligently Frugal Pleasures - Part Two
- Intelligently Frugal Pleasures - Part Three
- Intelligently Frugal Pleasures - Part Four
How do you usually measure relative intelligence?
How do you usually measure adequate thoughtfulness?
How do you attempt to combine such measures?Have you recently taken a virtual tour around Frugality Cottage and its ethereal garden?
- More about the Cottage - Part One
- More about the Cottage - Part Two
- More about the Cottage - Part Three
- More about the Cottage - Part Four
Are you adequately acquainted with the EverTime?
Do you consider authentic living to be mostly related to time or place or purpose?
Perhaps you associate authenticity with history.
Perhaps you would prefer your life to be an accurate re-enactment of a particular time in history, possibly from a specific socioeconomic, political, cultural and/or geographical perspective.
Is your acquaintance with history mainly a reflection of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics or metaphysics?
How do you prefer to acknowledge, and reflect upon, episodes of authenticity within your own mind and in your experiences of the world?
When have you experienced episodes of authentic living in your life experiences?
When have you experienced authentic interpersonal relationships, and how do you know?
Perhaps you prefer staying indoors.
Do you usually associate authenticity with tragedy or comedy or neither?
When, if ever, have you attempted to restore the authentic you?
How do you know your curiosity about anything is adequately connected to your intelligence?
How do you usually think about curiosity in relation to authenticity?
Perhaps you have rarely reflected upon such questions, at any time, in any place.
Perhaps you would prefer to think of authenticity as making your physical existence to be the place and time for authentic experiences of timeless wisdom, possibly through the harmonious interplay of beauty, understanding and magnificence.
If you are new here, please catch up with this series as soon as you can.
Here are the outlines of the earliest episodes:
- Authentic Living - Episode 1
- Authentic Living - Episode 2
- Authentic Living - Episode 3
- Authentic Living - Episode 4
- Authentic Living - Episode 5
- Authentic Living - Episode 6
- Authentic Living - Episode 7
- Authentic Living - Episode 8
- Authentic Living - Episode 9
- Authentic Living - Episode 10
- Authentic Living - Episode 11
- Authentic Living - Episode 12
- Authentic Living - Episode 13