6 wise ways to rethink your life story

www.thelifeeditor.com

The Life Editor is a personal decision making aid designed to help you make good life choices. 

It draws on a diverse range of wisdom traditions – from Buddhist, to Native American Medicine and Astrology – to help you broaden your perspective and hopefully make a choice that is right for you.

The decision-support models are delivered by download as MS Excel files. You answer a set of questions and get an automated feedback report. There is no third party involved and no advice is given. Your decision is up to you.

The downloads are unpriced – if you find the Life Editor process beneficial, you can go back and pay what you think it’s worth. Users are encouraged to share their experiences to help other people make good choices too.

There are 6 wise ways to help you make better life choices: 

Native American Medicine Wheel

From an ancient, natural tradition, in which people saw themselves as part of nature, the Medicine Wheel is like a compass to use for both navigating and healing. It will provide you with some unusual and thought-provoking perspectives.

Astrological Houses

Not a horoscope, but a comprehensive model of the human experience from birth, through all the stages of development, to integration with the world at large. This approach combines astrology with psychology in a subtle and insightful way.

 

Buddhist Wheel of Life

The Buddhist Wheel of Life has got to be one of the most famous and enduring models of the human condition ever created, and one of the most profound and stimulating aids to managing your life. Every choice we make creates karma – make sure yours is positive.

Advice from Atisha’s Heart

This is heart-felt advice from a great Buddhist teacher to his students. Whether you are a Buddhist or not, you will find in it a form of universal wisdom which can help guide us to make good life choices which benefit ourselves and others.

Western Wheel of Life

A modern, Western secular review of all the main aspects of a person’s life: things like occupation, friends, family, finances and so on. The model is divided into Current Situation and Future Situation enabling you to do a ‘before and after’ comparison.

St Ignatius of Loyola

Inspired by a sixteenth Century Spanish nobleman with curiously modern ideas, this model will help you test if your choice feels right, for the right – or wrong – reasons, and whether it is free from all forms of negativity.

Go to www.thelifeeditor.com and let me know what you think.

One misty morning

It all started one misty morning. I looked out at the grey sea merging into the grey sky and thought: this is heaven. People think they die and go to heaven. But we’re in it now. Or could be, if we only made the right choices.

I had a vision of a place where you could go for a retreat. It was a cross between a hotel and a video editing suite. An angel hosted the session. She showed you sequences of your life on a video screen. You could see how the choices you made had certain consequences. But if you weren’t happy with the outcome, you could edit the story and get a better one.

That is the dreamy way the Life Editor was born. A way of editing your life story.

Over the next 18 months I worked to create something that would help people make better choices in life. The first model I worked on was the Native American Medicine Wheel. The trialists all said the ideas were a bit strange and I thought , “Great, I’m onto something.”

I was excited that I was creating something which would take people out of the familiar, the well-trodden path, the conventional way of viewing their lives. By offering an unfamiliar, slightly disorientating environment, I could help them to see their lives, their choices and possibilities from new angles.

Researching the models was a huge task but a really rewarding one. Not every idea worked. But the ones which did were really interesting and taught me a lot. I had a strong feeling that I was creating something of value.

And because it was my own work, no one could tell me “that’s not right”. I was my own boss, and it was really liberating.

As time went on, and I put more and more months of effort into it, I began to wonder how much people would pay for it. If I marketed it well, I could make a bit of money here…

But that didn’t sit right. Obstacles arose. The scale of the investment necessary to make it a reality became daunting.

So one sunlit afternoon on a boat coming back from Capri, I had an epiphany. “Give it away.” Don’t charge anything. Make it a gift to whoever needs it. If they want to give something in return, that's fine, but they don't have to. 

Then things started flowing again. And now, three months later, it’s just about ready to go live.

The Life Editor will be gifted to the world in the next few days at www.thelifeeditor.com

Go have a look and let me know what you think.

be the Editor of your own Life

Life Editor helps people make choices which are right for them.

The decisions we make determine how our lives play out. We all want to make the right choices so we have a happy life.

I'm not talking about what to have for dinner - I'm talking about big things: should I move to Australia, shall I marry my boyfriend, should I quit my job and start my own business?

Things that you are going to need to think about carefully, from all the angles, to make sure the decision is right for your before you embark on it.

What LifeEditor does (or will do, because I'm still developing it at the moment) is help you look at possible choices from different angles, unusual angles, to help you get a more rounded view and make sure you really understand it, and can be sure it is the right thing to do. 

LifeEditor will be a website containing a range of personal decision-making tools. These tools will provide information and ask you a series of multiple-choice questions about the decision you are thinking of making.

The tools are all based on different world traditions - by which I mean different cultures, philosophies of ways of looking at life. They help you think about your options in ways you might not normally consider.

For example, the first decision-making model I am developing is based on the Native American Medicine Wheel. Now that is not something most people would usually draw on to help them make an important decision.

But that's just the point. It gives you the kind of insight and depth of understanding to tell exactly how right this choice would be for you, in a kind of way that you wouldn't normally get.

But there is no-one behind it telling you what is going to happen - no mystic or seer predicting your future - you are answering your own questions. You are totally in control. It is you who decides how to answer the questions which the Life Editor asks you about your options, and you alone who decide if, and how, right that choice is for you.

That's why I call it the Life Editor, because  - like the editor of a film - you are deciding what to cut out and what to leave in; you alone are your own story-teller, the Editor of your own Life.

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