I'M GRATEFUL
FOR THE OPPORTUNITIES
TO LIVE MANY LIVES.

1990 START
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I accomplished many
of my first life goals.

Now it's time to use that experience
to accomplish more.

It will be easier this time.

I will keep writing about it.

-Better education for less money.

-Children can only gain.
----------------------------------

I tried to be the best male icon
that you could find.

I was a backwater reservation kid
fighting and scratching
for a meaningful life.

My assets were years of reading
and a wide variety of poverty
and survival experiences.

Experiences mostly chosen
by my father.
-------------------------------

I was raised in poverty.

I wasn't aware
that it was so bad
at the time.

My story is not that exceptional.

It is more typical of children
who had to learn personal
resourcefulness at an early age.

I had phenomenal success
for my age and poverty background.

Almost magical opportunities
for success contrasted
with the abject failures
of my childhood Indian friends.

I acquired far more than my share
of the trappings
of power and success.
---------------------------------------

The illusions of life.

The answer was there waiting
for me to discover.

I have lived long enough
to be bored by personal possessions.

I am still excited
by architectural opportunities.

Renewing and remodeling
is challenging and fun.

Over the years I gradually
accumulated some wealth
and a nice lifestyle.

I learned over time
to make a lot of money hourly.

Now my real wealth is the value
of the time I can give
to the education of children.
--------------------------------------------

Enjoying counting my past rewards
is fun,
almost as fun as anticipating
future rewards.
-----------------------------------------

440
Now that I'm growing up
I want to be young

I have a warm, heart
I'm happy I have lived

I take my time
before angry yelling

I want a friendlier hand

2001

My volunteer job is creating a surplus
to pay for minority scholarships

I burn with impatience
to solve problems
------------------------------------

Children have enhanced my lifetime.

What's so good about this?

I'll try to show you

How can I enhance your lifetime?
-----------------------------------------

1994 autobiography section

Am I contented?

Did I do enough?

Is this enough?

Should I do more?

Can I really accomplish more?

Have I tried too hard?

It's getting harder?
It's getting easier?

What will I do before I go off
into the sunset?

Now I'm slowing down.

Lost some of my drive.

Is it satiation?

My body breaking down
and losing strength.

I'm becoming shorter
than the glorious body
I grew up with.

Is it time for apathy,
time to retire,
relax?

Smell the roses?
------------------------------------

My life of magical moments.

I've had a glorious life
using my mind.

Experiencing as many joys
as I could pack into each day.
------------------------------------------

Keeping momentum with my beliefs.

Keeping momentum for children.

Keep fighting as long as I can.

Fight for the possibilities
of children.

Prove the possibilities
to the children
and anyone else who will listen.
-----------------------------------------

1994 lighting and dying

Too soon our lights go out.

Life doesn't have to be awful.

Life can be glorious.

Life can be exciting
and rewarding.

There's no good reason to stop.

I'm leaving comfortable retirement
on social security to keep
carrying the flag
of better child development
and the limiting of failures.

I'm still driven by the belief
"students don't have to fail."
-----------------------------------------

My lighting toys.

I was taught to create elegance
with light.

I learned to enjoy creating
an elegant home with light.

I have enjoyed helping to light
the homes of my loved ones.

In an earlier life I was
lighting designer and salesman

I sold and manufactured
frosting mixes and computers.

I had to change.

Leave my old self behind.
----------------------------------------

What next?

Should I try to keep my fires alive?

Should I bank the fires?

I am the temporary occupant
of this life.

I am always concealing
the real depth of my giving
and caring.

Defeated by my life's termination?

Is this where I expected to be?

I still need your regard
after all that I've done.
-----------------------------------

CULMINATING ACTIVITIES

Respect for my passions.

Grateful for opportunities
to experience many lives.

Counting off my past rewards
is fun.

Almost as fun as anticipating
future rewards.
-----------------------------------

BELIEFS I HAVE ACQUIRED.

The 10 commandments
are almost universal.

Learning is admired.

Writing earns
almost universal respect.

Touch Typing
is job security for life.

Beauty is everywhere
you stop a minute to find it.

I now like flowers in my home.

I like comfortable
more than sporty cars.

Sunshine makes happier hearts.

Giving it all away is more fun
than I ever imagined.

Santa Claus
is a good job description.

Isolation is foolish and lonely.

I have had all the isolation
that I will ever need.
-----------------------------------------

I have the mild look
of a grandparent
wanting to avoid controversy.

You are already there,
you have arrived,
and you have met your goals.

Time to explore again,
to put in gas and go again.

In 1999 I want more personal
performance because I have become
hooked on performance rewards.
-----------------------------------------

1993 Second Lifetime

July 1993 I will be starting
my 30th year
on this college preparatory,
educational project.

Thirty-seven more years to go
and then I can retire to????

My planning and training
took place in San Francisco
and I opened my first
Denver office September 1964.
------------------------------------

1993 is my best writing year ever.

Summary of 1000
"Winning Systems used in my books".

Summary of 1000 "losing systems"
we try to avoid.

My personal cars are 30
and 29 years old.

1963 and 1964 models.
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1992

PASSIVITY CAN BE
YOUR WORST ENEMY

COULD HAVE VS. COULDN'T

DIGNITY? VS. RELIEF?
VS. WAITING FOR DEATH?
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1992
Today was a good writing day.

At 6:00 am I was
onto another new standard.

By 1:00 I was reviewing
a printed copy of 6 pages
that are revolutionary
by my conservative standards.

The acceptance was 80 percent?

Perhaps I did the wrong thing?

How much will that cost?

A Laotian man who worked for us
last year decided to come back
this fall.

Help is more appreciated
in this age of over employment.

I wonder what will happen
to the millions who now hold jobs
and are laid off

in the next downturn.
---------------------------------------

SPEAKING

IT TAKES TIME
TO HAVE A GOOD ANSWER
INSTEAD OF A QUIP.

Speaking of
the opportunity to live
and fill their lives
without shame.

When you write your thoughts
you can become rigid.

Tell your story.

In the telling
you will hear your life story.

Discover your pride
in your masculinity.
-----------------------------------------

1990
If you have worn out your welcome,
find some new interests and people
you can share with.

Now I have permission
to be a grandpa.
-----------------------------------------

1990 auto
I had many benefits
from my one room school education.

Perhaps I missed the benefits
of a city school education.
------------------------------------

I need to make sophisticated use
of technology
to compete with technology companies.
---------------------------------------

1992 dying

CP NOTES 6/29/93

I have less fear
because I'm not finished.

I have a more comfortable
perspective on dying.

There is less chance
of being short-changed
by life (or being short-changed
by myself.)

The opportunity to do more
leaves me feeling
more relaxed and not so
resentful that life
may be ending shortly.

I'm more relaxed
with prospect of death.

I am resigned
that it will happen,
but I won't be here
to experience it.

I wish that it won't be painful.

Perhaps our living wills
will help with this.

The more satisfied with life,
the more eager to stop
if its too painful.
-----------------------------------

1990

I will never finish this book.

I will just keep adding to it
until one day I will be gone.

I don't have
complete control
of the day I will die.

An accident can happen
to all of us.

I wrote the obituaries
in case something
unexpected happens to me.

Here's a couple of
possible obituaries I would
have enjoyed seeing in the paper.

Search Ctrl find for obituaries
-------------------------------------

Note: I am still kicking
in 2000.

This journal continues

I'm not dead yet.

I have been having fun.

I hope you have enjoyed
this second lifetime trip.

I certainly have.
---------------------------------

1992
Writing about Carl Peterson
is an interesting experience.

I live my life
as a work of art
to be finished.

Bend into new themes and stories
to be lived and understood.

I half know the answers
I am searching for.

I work toward that answer.

I have themes that support my work.

Let's see who else I can find
that agrees with me.

I re-write to avoid
the mean-minded ugliness
of the press.

I'm in danger of repudiation
if I don't do my homework.
----------------------------------

LETTER
JUNE AFTER FATHER'S DAY 1999

This word perfect has
a lot of space for cp
to talk about the sunsets.

This was a week for celebrations.

Kathy's birthday Wednesday.

Tuesday with Tracy.

I had a great Father's day week.

Presents,
brunch with Stacey,
dinner and baseball
with Dave's family in Littleton.

I hit the ball five times,
2 runs,
1 out at first,
and 2 forgiven.

First time at bat
for 20 or 50 years?

Tom has two offers on his house
within 2% of asking price.

If he accepts,
he will have the pleasure
of picking out a new house.

Internet is going great.

Setting up my family albums
to share with anyone
who has time to burn.

The geneology file
will work as well.

What do you do when you have
100,000 pages to fill?
--------------------------------------

To begin with I have to select
the most important 100 locations
then 500 then??
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Diversions

I have 7 new rooms
with chandeliers
on the second floor.

3 more rooms to go in
the next year or so.

Sure enjoying more west windows.

Not enjoying the dead leaves
outside my west window.

I'm afraid I will lose
this 100-year-old tree.

(The city destroyed the tree
in 2001.)

I'm making a web site
of old pictures of the mansion
that show many of the trees
I have had to take out.

Later pictures show
some of the trees that Dave
imported from Indiana.

A couple of trees I transplanted
20 years ago are over 50 feet high.
-----------------------------------

War?

Is over officially.

Unfortunately,
it will continue
to cause more deaths
for the next few centuries.

Why?

It's a vicious world out there.

We are so lucky.

We have avoided
a few thousand car accidents.
---------------------------------------

A week has gone by.

Mostly quietly.

Guess I will type some notes.

After this trip
my body follows new instructions.

Things to do and accomplish.

Last few days cleared my mind,
senses,
memory,
and imaginations.

Discovering details and reasons
for people's lives.
------------------------------------

MY TERRA COTTA ARMY

I have 40 men,
one or two lieutenants
and a general in my platoon.

I also have 4 horses
and two carts.

Most are small copies
of the buried treasures in China,
but two of the heads
are larger than life size.

When I look at the heads,
I see myself in my past military
and management roles.

I think of my successes,
my non-successes.

The failures were small
and did not kill me
like the men in the statues.

I didn't kill anyone directly.

I suppose the terra cotta soldiers
lived one short life.

I lived many long lives.

I'm ahead.

They were buried
over 2000 years ago.

They bring my thoughts
to the temporary reality
that I am allowed to live.
-----------------------------------

1999?
222I left this because I can't
find the dup in this file.

It must be a dup of another
file.
---------------------------------------

This has been a good week.

Our only 3-year-old granddaughter
is around for her birthday week.

What a pleasure to share
her simple discoveries.

My 7-year-old grandson
is smart as a whip
and tells you very politely
how it really is.

He's so careful and respectful.

I'm afraid he will break
like a humpty-dumpty.

Actually he is big for his age
and probably will be
the world's biggest tri-athlete
when he grows up.
-------------------------------

240 1990's
I'm in a hurry since my writing
and experiencing days
have shorter limits.
---------------------------------

May 1, 1999

Thoughts for the day
or the new millennium?

Good Morning.

What do older people do all day?

Reminisce.

I am using this medium to share
my late in life perspectives.

How do we become the persons we are?
----------------------------------------

1999 MUSING
cp journals and writing from 99

What is fulfilling to you?

Artist?

Farmer?

Builder?

Writer?

Stock broker?

1999 AGING

When will I RETIRE again?

What would I do?

I retired long ago
when I was 26.
and again at 57.
----------------------------------

What if you have a stroke?

If I could not type,
I would try to use a voice translator.

Perhaps I would blink my eyes
yes or no.
----------------------------------

I write to share my excitement
with living and learning.

This party is to let you in
on something
that should not be a secret.
----------------------------------------

AGING
440
HANDLING MY CHILDREN

I realize that we
use different words.

Though the concepts
are much the same.

I realize that it is hard
to stay open
to what I have to say.

I'm not the expert
from out of town.

I am a sort of parental figure

whose ideas are to be resisted
because I am older.

Listen to me half the time
that I listen to you
and I will feel great.

What is possible?

What are the alternatives?

Couldn't take the action
that was necessary.

Most parents are striving
for the same goals.

Parental commitment
is the key ingredient.

The world is a nursery.

How do you equip it
for our children?

My ideals were slowly and painfully
gathered together since 1964.

How fun it is to be able to help!
--------------------------------------

10th ANNIVERSARY
OF MY SECOND LIFETIME.

Collections of my musings.

Some painful
but mostly very appreciate.

Consider the alternative.

Price of power is high.

In the long run you can earn
the privilege MAKING contributions.

You may not get all the credit
you deserve.

So what?

You have been self-rewarding
for many years.

Your life has been far more rewarding
than you expected in the beginning.

Do we all have an unlimited
need for reward?

I suppose so.

Most of my goals had been
fulfilled by 1988.

I set many new goals and have
had the rewards of reaching
many of them.

I still like setting new goals

and reaching some of them.
------------------------------------

1994 AT 65

I am living with a rapidly
increasing intensity of life.

I have many escalating dreams
and goals to be accomplished.

I am trying to make sense
of a confusing array of relatively
short term experiences
and involvements.

I'm concerned with being happy.

I want to remain
intellectually honest.

I try to listen to other persons
with reverence and humility.

Approaching death warns that there
will be fewer successes,
no more fun,
done with yourself at last.

My life has been a gift.

Now what do I do with this gift?

What changes can I make
to max my remaining life?

I must have faith
that the intellectual process
can work.
---------------------------------------

LOST MY BELIEFS?

No,
I had to flush many of them
down the drain.

The dilemmas of the quest
for meaning.

Who am I?

Who is in charge?

What does my death mean?

Where are the cashiers?

Slow up and miss it?

Speed up and feel a sense of loss?

Able to find meaning
in a variety of contacts.

Share with my students
a perspective.
-----------------------------------

222
AGING DUP?

CULMINATING ACTIVITIES

Respect for my passions.

Grateful for opportunities
to experience many lives.

Counting off my past rewards is fun.

Almost as much fun
as anticipating future rewards.
-------------------------------------------

1994 AGING

I'm a very honorable,
and now aged person.

One who was kind and lived
long enough to become wiser.

I've been learning to share
and understand other's feelings.

Today I know we are all more alike
and share the same problems
and concerns.

Like all other older persons
I am very uncertain
what will happen after I die.

Except for where my body will lie.

I have built my life
on that understanding.

That's why almost every additional
minute is valuable to me.

I delay many responses.

That is part of why I try
to very cautiously weigh my responses
to almost any question.

I am sure this sometimes makes me
seem ponderous and indecisive.

I have thousands of available answers
and it takes a few milliseconds
to sort through the possible
consequences of each reply.

Sure I could rattle off
a snappy comment,
and too often do,
but first unconsidered responses
can have severe consequences.

I don't like dealing with
the consequences of ruining
my day or evening.
------------------------------------

MY GOAL

Improving the public schools
care for students.

I do this by personally donating
my time to create funded examples of:

FREE AND LOW COST INSTRUCTION
FOR STUDENTS

FREE PARENTING CLASSES

FREE DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TO HELP PARENTS
SPOT CURRENT AND FUTURE PROBLEMS
---------------------------------------

AN OCCASIONAL NEWSLETTER
TO SHARE
WHAT'S NEW OR OLD
OR JUST ON MY MIND.

Hey.

It's catch-up time.

The last two years have been busy.

In addition to my usual busyness,
I added the acquisition and remodeling
of 3 new locations for my schools.

Yes,
I kept writing books--
more than ever,
but editing my writing and licking
a few stamps for this newsletter
took a back seat.

So again I am full of good intentions.

I will send some more newsletters
to share my discoveries and life trivia.

Speaking of important trivia--
Judy recently returned
from an extended vacation
in Indonesia with Stacy.

My mother just celebrated her 93rd
birthday in better physical shape
than her last two birthdays.

She is on oxygen forever,
but can still make it up
the 4 flights of stairs to my place
each time she comes to visit.

She still has her smile
and sparkle in her eyes
when she talks.

A long term friend (former employee
from Los Alamos in the 60's)
has moved to New Hampshire
to live in a retirement community
near his daughter and her family.

Ken 77 and Ruth had retired here
in Denver for 5 years.

It was convenient to visit
and to listen to his extraordinary
piano playing at church.

I feel a very sad sense of loss
as they move out
of the routine circle of my life.

Time to become more idealistic
as you are freed of competition
to make money.
------------------------------------------

1997 aging

For 30 years or more I have averaged
working an extra 40 hours
or more per week.

Add my 65 years to that and you have
a man with the equivalent
of a 95 year-old working experience.

If I live for another 10 years
at this rate,
I will be the equivalent of a person
who is 115 years old.

No wonder I sometimes feel
like an older person.

I will eventually have to leave.

I will leave far better
for this part of my long life.

Was this the best part?

No,
my pride in all my 7 children was
and is the most immediately rewarding.
----------------------------------------

1996? AGING

240

The super green tree tops
surrounding my homes
are so lush and beautiful.

Perhaps any other spring
and early summer vacations
are a mistake.

Or perhaps,
it is the enthusiasms
of an older person who knows
this all will go away.

Most of the day I can look
at dozens of children
and some parents whose dreams
are sharing my procedures.

The children are of many colors.

From many parts of the globe.

From over 50 countries.
----------------------------------

1999 THOUGHTS I HAD
TIME FOR.

Are there too many questions?

A SEMANTIC IMPASSE?

Questions I am pursuing
this bright March morning.

IS THERE THOUGHT
WITHOUT INNER SPEECH?

DOES ALL INNER SPEECH HAVE WORDS?

DON'T INCLUDE
AUTOMATIC AUTONOMIC RESPONSES.
--------------------------------------

Internal conversation.

Which comes first
thought or inner speech
or inner speech then thought?

How fast is unaware inner speech?

Has it ever been clocked?

Is it as fast as thought?

IS THIS THE QUESTION?

What is the thought process?

Who has any factual information?

Speculation?

Time for lexical deliberation
and interpretation or argument?

Personal
Silent
Auditory
Audience?

WHO HAS ANSWERS?

Speed of thought
Speed of fixations
After thought?

Before thought?

Speed of decisions?

Speed of action?

Speed of recognition
visual and auditory?

WHO HAS SPECULATED WITH ANY DATA?
-----------------------------------

True or false.

THE SHAPE AND SIZE OF THE BRAIN
IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED STATIC?

Some articles indicate
older persons can keep their
brains learning?

True or false.

MATH CENTER DETERIORATES
FOR LACK OF USE?

True or false?

Math is a verbal process
using inner or audible speech.

Traditional exercise
is to verbally explain the problem
on the chalk board.

Math needs the vocalization
of the symbols.
--------------------------------------

JUDICIAL SYSTEM PROBLEMS

Visual identity of witnesses
is likely to be faulty.

Visual memory is flawed because?

Visual memory
without inner speech
storage for retrieval is limited.

Modifying visual memory of a crime
is easy because it is not auditory?

The speed of the crime
interferes with subvocalization
during the crime.

A lack of auditory input
during the crime limits memory.

Few words
before fast action.

Little discussion
mostly automatic reactions.

Responses not calculated
or thought out.

Scenarios
are not properly indexed
with auditory input.

Inadequate path
for auditory memory retrieval.

No time to rehearse
with inner speech
before talking.

Fear dominates
inner speech responses.

Can't remember the sequence.

Afterward
victims may be coached verbally.

Investigator questions
may mislead you.

This may invent a response or
replace a limited memory.
---------------------------------------

INNER SPEECH

Beethoven continues writing music
after becoming deaf?

He continues with inner speech.

Hears all the sounds mentally.

Not distracted by new sounds.
--------------------------------------

Idiot savant discussion.

Here is a possible sequence.

What is your explanation?

Possible scenario?

Savant is incapable
of time consuming attempts at speech.

Idiot savant learns piano
by intense listening
and reproduces the sound accurately.

Diverted by birth and speech defects
from wider opportunities
to think and communicate.

Being free to listen and absorb
piano full-time
the child learns piano very well.

Receives inordinately high
encouragement and reinforcement
for the only good skill.
--------------------------------------

Today I am 69.

It is 30 years since I was 39.

I have met all of the goals
I wanted to reach.

How shall I fill the next 30 years?

What will I do for the next 30 years?

To justify more living I have
to invent some new goals.

I plan to do more
of what I have been good at.
---------------------------------------

1992 DYING

After realizing your life expectancy
is shorter you must really
speed up your discovery
and accomplishment rate.

Knowing there is
a closer deadline makes me
run faster than I ever did
in younger years.

I'm in a hurry to peel back
the mysteries of life
with more studying,
writing and pondering.

Learning to accept
more diversity in thought.

I keep having these flashes
of NEW understandings
of old information
since I became
an older person in 1989.

For example:

Accelerated Language
Write Start
Accelerated Thinking.

Peterson Think Tanks
Peterson Memory Guides
Peterson Reading.

Peterson ESL,
Spanish,
and French.
----------------------------------

240
DYING

Why fight about what is going
to happen when we die?

No one can know the answer.

93 DYING 240

I will die happily.

Just as I happily face
most of my days.

I'm so happy by the end of the day
that I feel like a real high.
--------------------------------

COMMENTARY

Death is seldom a friend.

Tragic to have a life
with no responsibility.
-------------------------------

1991 MEMORY

Every camp fire becomes a flame
of remembering
of past sharing and experiences.
-----------------------------------

1991 DYING

I've already been reborn
in a sort of
social reincarnation.

I've been
fortunate
to be living in a country
where I can be surrounded
by my ancestors and mentors.

I now have time
to see my youth be reborn
in the lives
of my children and grand children.

My decedents will represent me.
-----------------------------------

1994? Dying 240

My New Year resolution.

My purpose is
to maximize my growth
before I have to stop.

For many years I was conditioned
to enjoy the pressure of performance.

I have been running away
from death.

I drove myself like I was fleeing a
forest fire.

Striving for individual success.

I am sometimes overwhelmed
with pressure.

Sometimes I make my week
too full and
it spills into family time.

Its going to be great
to get old but I'm going
to put it off as long as I can.

To maintain my energy
I allow my self
to sleep whenever things are quiet.

The other night I went
to sleep
with my hand
on a key of the computer.

When I woke in a few seconds
I had filled three pages
----------------------------------------

240 DYING PART

We are healthy
for most of our lives.

Wouldn't it be great
if our body parts
would hold up until the last minute,
and then like
the legendary "one-horse-shay",
give out and collapse all at once.
--------------------------------------
1992? DYING

Part of my obituary

We preach our funeral service
throughout our lives.

Share my last words
so you will know my evolution.

No need for sadness.

I had heaven on this earth
for many years.

I really enjoyed my opportunities.

I like to think my careful
living style contributed
and paid off for me.

Perhaps it was
my genetic inheritance.

Do as much as you can do.

WRITEN IN 1990?

OBITUARY -
PETERSON LIVED LIKE HE
"THOUGHT DEATH WAS OPTIONAL"

He had one life to live
and he had to get it right.

Peterson may have written
to avoid death and to keep on
living through his writings.

For a time he disengaged
from the political mess
of public education.

Now with renewed resolve he continues
to provide the best example
of effective education
that he can design.

Some days I feel like
my car windows
have just been washed.

I can see so clearly.

I rediscover old pleasures
that I haven't experienced
in a long time:

Planting a new tree.

Cutting the lawn myself
for the first time in 8 years.

Removing fallen branches
that have left the safety
of the mother tree.

I always sort of hated summer.

After I was 20 I was aware
that I disliked summer heat.

Maybe I was concerned
with sweating.

Now I take personal pride
that I sweat a little
when I take my 30 minute walks.

When I was 56,
57 and 58,
I felt like
I was going steadily downhill.

Now I live like I was starting
my 20th year.

Now I can discover many things
for the first time.

Each time I step
into my newest Chevy I get
a renewal of the feelings
I felt when I got a new Telephone
in the 50's.

But I really recognize
that this one is better
than the 1950's models.

The 4 speakers wrap me
in uninterrupted pleasure
and sounds of the symphony
fill my heart to overflowing.

Sometimes my body must jump
with excitement.

George Bernard Shaw said something like,
"I live every minute like
it might be my last".

I wrote this comment
before I had a portable phone
available.

The availability
of new portable phones
has eliminated one
of my biggest problems:

Making sure I've finished everything
before leaving on trips.

90 % of my contact
is by phone today.

Why should I be tied to my office
to receive calls.

My computer is portable.

I'm free to do my job
at the park.

If I don't want to take calls
I can just switch it off.

I refuse to allow aging to be
any more important than it is.

Oh yeah?

I gave up the portable phone
because I didn't want to deal
with the complexity.

Is that a sign of age?

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Take all the vacations you can afford,
even work elsewhere
for a few months,
but don't live far away
from the family.

If you stay away,
you and your children will suffer
from loneliness,
inadequate bonding opportunities,
and lack of positive concern.

Live near or with your family.

Give your family priority
and they will give you
priority back.

Give back to your family
and continue receiving from them;
feedback,
love,
interest,
and most of all respect.

No amount of money made
in some far off location
will make up for the loss
of family and community friends.

Building a new life in a far off
community may no longer be
economically worthwhile.

Staying in your city area,
benefiting by close ties,
personal recommendations
and connections will probably
make you more "keepable" money.

Building your own financial dynasty
within one generation
in unfamiliar territory
was the unfulfilled dream
of most of our pioneers in America.

Why even try to be the exception
to the rule when it is so likely
to cost the psychological health
of your children
"for whom you've been working?"

Learn to value the ideas
of your city fathers.

Join their groups early
and save many years of frustration
trying to make it on your own.

The elders of your community
(over 45) love to help,
assist and sponsor younger persons.

When you become parents,
don't move to a new and better house
while your children
are of any school age.

Having to make a new social position
in a new neighborhood
is less than 25% successful
for all but a few of the elite,
high achieving children.

If you think I'm joking
think how hard it has been,
or was for you,
or one of your siblings
to socially re-establish yourself
in your community after a move.

Its unlikely to be possible
in any grand way.

If successful at all,
it will be in a very limited way.
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I worked
for my children and
for unnamed students
I usually never got to know.

I am proud of my efforts
for their improved futures.
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1997
MEMORY LOSSES

Why? What happens?

Overwriting of previous input.

No immediate need
for the information.

Leaves immediate consciousness

Connections to the information
are not readily available.

Unable to quickly
make the connection.

Need other triggers
to make the connection.

Other Problems

Unnecessary details.

Nice to remember but
no need to remember.

Answers can be looked up.

REVIEW OF CAUSES

Lack of need
Lack of usefulness
Lack of interest
Lack of auditory
refreshment opportunities.
where information could be reviewed
or would be useful.

No social environment
where the information
would be appreciated

solution

If you have the desire
to remember

convert personal details to a
biographical computer file.

Listen to a text reader that can
audibly say the words.

Listen to your personal history
and anecdotes.

Use free photo enhancing software
to create a "photo biography"

Photo's will help you
re-create your memories.

Copy to computer memory
and run slide shows
on your computers.

Make CD's to share with family.

Sharing the photos with them
will enhance their memories.