3 Phases of the Life Cycle
Gratefully be a lifelong learner and generously share your lessons.
The Life Cycle
Life is about learning and growing and passing it on. You study and learn in your youth. You apply what you learn until you master it, especially in your chosen field. Then you mentor others, sharing what you’ve learned, completing your cycle.
The cycle is also completed in individual activities at any age. A child can learn to climb a tree, master climbing trees and teach other children to climb them.
The life cycle is summarized as Study, Apply, Mentor, which is SAM from my acronym SAM’S GOALS. SAM is the life cycle. ‘S is for Simplifying. GOALS is the management cycle. This blog focuses on the life cycle with the information rearranged as follows:
Assimilate
Student and Mentor
Apply with GAMEs
This blog provides an overview of the 3 phases of the life cycle. The first phase pertains to ways to enhance your assimilation of the information you receive. The second phase is an overview of the cycle and its influence on your relationships. The third phase is an invitation to discover and choose your ways to make learning a fun GAME. Imagine how life could be when you consciously use the life cycle to expand your life in all areas for your best and highest good and the good of all.
Assimilate
Many ways exist to accumulate and assimilate information, using your mind, your connections and your experience. The way you assimilate that information is unique to your perspective and your multiple intelligences.
Memorize
You use your mind for information through your interpretations of your sensory perceptions, your imagination and your mind’s ability to sort and store the results.
You memorize the information, whether it comes from direct sensory perception, from books and movies, or from your imagination. You use your unique perspective and filter of prior experience that you use for your meaning-making ability. Then you sort and store the memories according to your unique categories.
Your memory of an event will be different from every other person who witnessed the same event, because each of you has a different perspective, a unique filter, and a different priority for your categories. Challenge your past memories that support limiting beliefs.
Co-Create
Use your connections with yourself, others and all life to assimilate heartfelt experiences. The greater the emotion attached to an experience, the more information you will remember about the experience, especially if it involves someone you love.
Expand your ideas of how to do things to create greater energy around whatever you do. Create with others to make even mundane tasks more fun. Experiment with ways to connect more deeply and meaningfully with others and to prioritize which activities would produce the greatest life experiences.
Accumulate
In the modern world, there is no shortage of ways to accumulate information. Be sure to consciously choose books, discussions, classes, etc. that align with your vision and values. Emphasize activities that match your unique needs for quality time with others and for your solitude. Accumulate skills and knowledge in any area that you are curious about. If it interests you, it will energize you, which helps you expand time.
Study and Mentor
Nobody learns 100% independently. You first learn from your parents and other caregivers. Then teachers, coaches and others educate you in many areas. Even when you learn from sensory experiences, you often are taught by others how to make meaning of those experiences, whether in person, through books or other media.
Self-Analysis
Analyze your accomplishments, your relationships, and the abundance you have in your life. Don’t compare yourself to others. Instead, compare yourself to an earlier version of you. How many skills have you mastered? How much more confident are you in those skills? Are you earning more than you have in the past? Do you have better relationships with family, friends and associates? Do you have all your basic needs met? Do you also have some extra material possessions that are important to you, such as a television, a smart phone or a computer?
Often when analyzing their own accomplishments, people find themselves falling short. What typically happens is that they discount the skills that come easy to them as being “nothing” or “no big deal”. In fact, it is a very big deal, because not many people can do what they do, or struggle to do it well. So be sure to analyze all the skills you have, not just the ones you think others might label as important.
Gratefully Receive
When you’ve completed your analysis, consider what areas you would like to improve in your life, hard or soft skills. Release any limitations about your ability to learn those skills. Open to the possibility of studying them and who you might want to learn those skills from. Be willing to step out of your comfort zone.
Imagine what you would love to do to move into your next evolution of yourself. Open to receive all that you need to achieve those goals. Gratefully receive assistance from whatever mentors are available to you. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. You deserve to achieve your goals.
Pay It Forward
Remember those skills that you thought weren’t that important because they came easily to you? There are plenty of people who would love to develop those skills and are looking for a mentor. Pay it forward. Teach, share experiences, share skills and products. Think of all the ways you can share your knowledge with the next generation wanting to learn important life skills, and offer your mentorship.
Apply with GAMEs
Experiences are more memorable with greater emotion, so include as much fun as possible. Apply your skills with GAMEs - Gaining Abundant Meaningful Experiences. When you treat your activities like fun games, you can expand time, increase your energy and your productivity.
Hands-On Experience
All of your experiences will have a variety of ways to incorporate GAMEs. Think of ways to engage your mind for fun, like using gold stars on your to do list or project task list. Play silly “what if” games to create solutions. Being silly invites more expansiveness and less judgment of ideas.
Collaborative Challenges
Enjoy the experiences more by doing them with others. You can turn any mundane chore into a fun experience by doing it with others and making a game of it.
Collaborate with others to synergize your skills to produce greater results than you could individually. Build community to have a wider range of skills within the group. Notice how your environment at home, at work and in your community affects your energy. Make any necessary changes to support your mental, emotional and physical health.
Full Sensory Experience
Add a physical element to any activity to boost your feel-good hormones naturally. Allow your intuition to guide you rather than to try to force things to happen a certain way. The more relaxed you are, the more creative you’ll be. Bringing positive energetic vibrations into all of your activities will enhance them. Align your activities with your vision and be fully present to experience each moment. Your vision is your compass, but your life is lived in each moment’s experience. Make yours a wonderful experience each moment as you joyfully study, apply and mentor.
Going Deeper with the Life Cycle
In the next several blog posts, I will discuss the 3 phases of the life cycle in more depth.
3 Ways to Learn and Grow
Enhance your assimilation of all you learn.
3 Steps from Student to Mentor
Study, apply and mentor in all areas of your life.
3 Fun Ways to Learn with GAMEs
Discover and choose your ways to make learning a fun game.