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Turning Old Clichés into
New Maxims:
Conclusion
By Richard Eyre
Note:
This column appears every two weeks … with an old cliché replaced
by a new maxim each time. Click
here to read the full introductory column. Click
here to go to the Cliché archives.
As I look
back over these last twenty-six new columns and the twenty-six
new maxims we have created, it occurs to me that they all
relate in some way to prioritizing and balance.
They also seem to embody the following four principles:
It’s
not that achievements, quantity, have-to-dos and structure
are unimportant. It’s just that they get too much attention
in our competitive, list-oriented, materialistic world.
Each of the new maxims, in its own way, says something about
balancing life by moving quality, spontaneity, relationships,
and choose-to-dos up into parity and perhaps ahead of their
counterparts.
May
we internalize these principles. May we exercise and implement
the new maxims. May we enjoy life more and live it more
fully.
—Richard Eyre
© 2006 Meridian
Magazine. All Rights Reserved.
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A former Mission
President in London and candidate for Utah governor, Richard was
the director of the White House Conference on Parents and Children
for President Reagan. He served on the President's advisory panel
for secondary and higher education. A graduate of the Harvard Business
School, he headed a management consulting company for 20 years before
giving it up to meet the growing demands of his writing and speaking
schedule.
Richard and
his wife Linda are parents of nine children and authors of a dozen
bestselling family and parenting books. They are now focusing on
the phase they are entering: Empty Nest Parenting. Through their
web sites valuesparenting.com
and familynightlessons.com,
their frequent national media appearances and theirspeaking and
lecture tours (see http://www.theeyres.com/),
they continue to work at their mission statement which is, "FORTIFY
FAMILIES, popularize parenting, bolster balance, and validate values."
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