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    One Lifetime: Make the Most of It
    One Lifetime: Make the Most of It
    One Lifetime: Make the Most of It
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    One Lifetime: Make the Most of It

    By Raymond Scudder

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    One Lifetime – Make the Most of It is a must-read for anyone who wants to live and enjoy their life to the fullest. The book provides a wealth of expert advice, tips, and recommendations for taking control of your life and achieving whatever you want to achieve during your lifetime. The author provides a compelling case that your lifetime is a period of time with tremendous potential and you need to start now to shape the future, do what you want to do, enjoy what you have, and make the most of it. Some of the many key topics include: envisioning what you want, pursuing your big dream, boosting your self-confidence, dealing with difficulties and tough times, finding your spirituality, living a long healthy life, changing bad to good habits, building relationships, being a good parent, achieving financial success, and having few regrets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaymond Scudder
    Release dateApr 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370387397
    One Lifetime: Make the Most of It
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    Raymond Scudder

    Improvement of himself and others has been a driving force in the life and career of RAYMOND H. SCUDDER (Ray). Born and raised in Los Angeles, he has enjoyed a distinguished forty-five-year career as a human resources and quality improvement professional. A graduate of the University of Southern California with a BS Degree in Public Administration, he is also a Six Sigma certified process improvement specialist. Ray served as director of human resources for one of the largest medical centers in the state of Oregon and then as vice president of human resources and quality management for one of the largest medical centers in the state of Washington. In 1994 he founded Human Resources Consulting & Training which provided consulting and employee training programs to over 30 hospitals in the Pacific Northwest and served as its president until retiring in 2006. He and his wife, Jan, live in Lake Stevens, Washington.

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      One Lifetime - Raymond Scudder

      Chapter One: The Time of Your Life

      Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

      —William Penn

      The average human being lives 70 to 80 years. Is that a short time or a long time? The answer depends on which perception of time you choose to take. In the vast enormity and history of our universe, we humans are only a blink of an eye. Our universe began 15 billion years ago. The birth of our sun and earth occurred 5 billion years ago. Humans did not appear until 195,000 years ago. Using a clock analogy, if earth was formed at 12:00 am midnight and it is now midnight twenty-four hours later, we humans have been around since 11:59:59 pm – one second.

      While the time of the universe is very long and your lifetime is very short comparatively, there is another perspective. Your life is not short; it is the longest thing you will ever experience. Regardless of your religious background and what you believe happens after death, your life is long enough to shape your future, do what you want to do, enjoy what you have, and to make the most of it.

      Your lifetime is a period of time with tremendous potential. You do not have an eternity, you only have now to make the most of it and enjoy it to the fullest. You need to begin to do what you want to do now. The time of your life is now.

      Each of us gets twenty four hours per day to live our lives - no more, no less. When we start deducting the basic things most of us have to do, we are not left with many available hours to do what we want to do: twenty four hours minus eight hours of sleep minus two hours to cook and eat minus one hour of personal hygiene minus eight hours of work minus one hour of travel time equals four available hours. Interestingly, most studies show the average person watches TV about four hours every day.

      Since both successful and unsuccessful people are allotted an equal number of hours per day, it should be obvious a key difference between success and failure in life lies in how effectively you use your available time. Time is too important to waste, because you need it to get what you want out of your life.

      Simply managing your time better each day is a big step toward making the most of your life. Focusing on priorities and not wasting your time will reduce frustration and give you a sense of accomplishment and peace of mind. Consider using a daily time management technique if you are not already doing so. Keep a daily to-do list on a notepad, calendar, personal computer or iphone. Place an A, B, or C priority code next to each task on your list. A being a very important task you must do or negative consequences will result (e.g., pick kids up after school). B being an important task you should do but not as important as A tasks and consequences are less serious if the task is not completed (e.g., mow the lawn). C being a nice to-do task not nearly as important as A or B tasks, and there are no consequences if not completed (e.g., rearrange the linen closet). Some C tasks can even be eliminated when they are not important at all.

      First tackle those tasks on your daily to-do list that have the highest priority and are the hardest to do. Even if you do not get through your list, you will know your time was spent constructively.

      A daily to-do list is a simple but important suggestion and the first of many ideas, suggestions, tips, and recommendations this book contains. Hopefully, many will resonate with you, end up on your daily to-do list, and help you make the most of your life.

      Chapter One Key Points

      • The time to make the most of your life is now.

      • Making the most of your life begins with prioritizing daily tasks and managing your time well.

      Chapter Two: Never Stop Learning

      Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

      —Jim Rohn

      The fact you are reading this book means you want to learn how to make the most of your life. Keep learning, and take this as the most valuable advice in this book. Learning and, more importantly, self-learning is the number one way to ensure success in any area of your life.

      Self-learning, or self-education, has advantages over a formal college education. You can go at your own pace, it is cheaper, learning is fun, and you can learn what you need and want to learn. Conversely, a college education opens up more job opportunities, especially for professional and managerial positions. It is a simple fact that a college degree means you can make more money. College also develops your abilities to write, speak, express ideas, grasp abstract concepts, and understand other people and the world around you. Whether or not you are fortunate enough to obtain a formal college education, always be engaged in self-education. Education does not stop after you earn a high school diploma or a college degree. This is when self-learning begins.

      When you undertake the process of educating yourself, you take responsibility for yourself and your life. You recognize that you, not your personal circumstances, are the key to doing anything you want to do and being anything you want to be. Many people prefer to blame their personal circumstances on others or other reasons rather than learn how to change themselves and their circumstances. The following people never went to school or did not go beyond high school, yet they became self-educated and ended up changing not only themselves and their circumstances but the way we all live today: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Walt Disney, Chuck Yeager, and Steve Jobs.

      Self-learning is not difficult. Your ability to keep learning is almost limitless. To put this into mind-boggling perspective, your brain can form forty quadrillion or 40,000,000,000,000,000 thought patterns. The way to become self-educated is to take a topic or subject you are interested in and learn as much as you can about it. Information can be gathered from books, magazine and newspaper articles, other media, Internet searches, friends, family, professionals, experts, and so forth. It is amazing how much information you can gain when you focus on doing so. The more you learn about a particular topic, skill, or ability, the more knowledgeable you become and the more prepared you are to discard unneeded information and select and apply information that works to your advantage. The real value of self-learning comes after you seek out information. It comes when you put it to good use. Real wisdom and knowledge occurs when you try out and practice what you learn. Success is often achieved by trial and error. You have the potential to be a highly successful expert in any field if you engage in self-learning about a particular subject you enjoy or are interested in.

      Just reading books can transform your life for the better. Almost any book can teach you something about yourself or about the world. Any book can be a self-help book because what is more self-help than a book that shows you you’re not alone in the world? Reading is one of the few things you can do by yourself that makes you feel more connected to others. Reading books, especially novels, memoirs, and non-fiction help you exercise your emotions, examine your beliefs, learn new ideas, and figure out what you want to do in the world. At a minimum, reading one book per month makes for a nice year of reading and, at the end of each book, you will be a little different than you were at the start.

      Another important aspect of self-learning is learning from your mistakes. How you deal with the mistakes you make in life is an essential part of making the most of your life. Nobody likes making mistakes, but everyone makes their fair share because nobody is perfect. Have you ever made these kinds of mistakes?

      • Not paying attention when driving

      • Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time

      • Forgetting an anniversary or a birthday

      • Spilling a beverage

      • Breaking something

      These are common mistakes that we have all made, but many people also make major, serious mistakes during their lifetime: driving under the influence, starting smoking, verbally or physically harming someone, spending a lot of money unwisely, or committing a crime, to name a few.

      Both minor and major mistakes have common causes. Many a mistake comes from not focusing the mind and concentrating on the task at hand. This means maintaining a constant thought process about what you are doing and not allowing yourself to be rushed or distracted. Highways become safer when drivers focus on driving safely and avoid distractions such as talking or texting on a cell phone, downing fast food, changing the radio station, inserting another CD, or thinking about things other than the task at hand.

      Another cause of mistakes is making major decisions and taking action without carefully thinking about the consequences. The decision to drive under the influence can have devastating consequences and literally has wrecked many lives.

      On the other hand, if you go through life fearful of making mistakes, you will spend most of your life not doing much. The more you do in life, the more likely you are to make mistakes. How you react and respond to your mistakes is what will help you make the most of your life — or not.

      A mistake remains forever a mistake unless you take responsibility for it and learn from it. When you do, a mistake becomes an opportunity. When you make a mistake, don’t waste time blaming others, justifying the mistake for the sake of your ego, pouting over it, or getting frustrated. Acknowledge your mistake and simply say, Yes, I made a mistake.

      Once you acknowledge that you have made a mistake, self-learning needs to occur; you need to learn how not to do it again. Evaluate the situation you were in when you made the mistake. Do your best to identify what caused the mistake. Did you lack focus on the task at hand, were you rushed or distracted, did you fail to think about consequences, or was there something else that

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