The Art & Science of Skillful Living ®

LIFECRAFT ®

Companion User's Guide

PART THREE
The Five Elements of LIFECRAFT

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  1. Family Heritage --"A Rich Source of Pride"

    2. The first Element of LIFECRAFT is your Family Heritage. Your Family is alive with a past, a present and a future. It is the place from which human beings emerge and connect to in some form all the days of our lives. Who you are and who you become is greatly influenced by your connection to Family. It is the basis of who we first see ourselves to be. We begin our training in LIFECRAFT here.

    To master this first Element requires the knowledge and understanding of your Family's past, present and its path toward the future. Sample subjects you will find in the LIFECRAFT Life Planner are:

  2. Family Management -- "Your Handbook for Happiness"

    3. The second Element of LIFECRAFT is concerned with the smooth running of your home making it a happy place for all family members to live and grow. Families have different rules, policies and procedures for getting along and for living together. If the Family and its environment are not managed in a balanced way, conflicts arise causing pain and distress for family members. Good Family management is a critical element to the family's happiness and success. Subjects for study include:

  3. Family & Personal Finance -- "Grow & Prosper in Abundance"

    4. The third element of LIFECRAFT deals with managing money. Money is a vital resource to fuel the growth of your family as water is to the growth of a flower. To master this element in all its variations can be a lifelong quest. For this reason, many mistakenly believe that they cannot hope to achieve even a moderate level of craftsmanship in this seemingly complex element. The result is either great distress or distrust on the part of families and individuals when it comes to dealing with this -- one of LIFECRAFT's five principal elements.

    The truth is, families and individuals can achieve incremental excellence in this critical element of LIFECRAFT providing abundance of resources for Family and personal growth. Subjects include:

  • The Human Being -- "A Master Work of Art"

    • The fourth Element -- the "primary material" of LIFECRAFT is the human being. As wood is to the carpenter or clay to the potter, so is the human being to the practice of LIFECRAFT. A natural, uneven material, the Human Being requires very special handling. It is both fragile and resilient under the right conditions. Human Being's sprout and grow from the gardens we call Family.

    For this reason, we place knowledge of the family heritage and management of the family as LIFECRAFT elements for study in advance of the study of the human being; the fruit of the Family Tree. The ultimate goal of practicing LIFECRAFT is to make a masterpiece of your life, and to teach our children to make a masterpiece of theirs. Subjects for study include:

  • Tools for Living -- "Power to Shape Your Life"

    • The 5th Element of LIFECRAFT concerns itself with powerful instruments called tools. When used in the hands of skilled craftsmen and craftswomen, they produce superior results. When used by the untrained or when carelessly used they can cause great and irreparable damage to the fragile human being; the "materia prima" -- primary material of LIFECRAFT.

    Tools are employed in diverse applications within all of the first four Elements of LIFECRAFT. Yet, we have identified them as a separate fifth Element because we feel they are unique creations. They are a vital element of LIFECRAFT by themselves. Each tool is an extension of the craftsperson. An instrument to harness and shape the energy within us and around us. Thus, the toolmaker is a special craftsperson among craftspeople. Subjects in the "toolbox" at the end of the LIFECRAFT Life Planner include:

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