Essential Parts of The Holistic Goal
The holistic goal has three major aspects:
Values expressed as a high quality of life
Actions that express these values and support
this quality of life indefinitely
Resources needed to continue these actions
indefinitely, thereby continuing to move toward, or maintain, the
support
systems in the goal.
The resources are of three kinds: Economic
(money or what money can buy), Social (human community), and Natural (the biosphere,
geosphere, atmosphere and all their interactions that maintain life on this planet).
Initially it is suggested that the holistic goal be
organized as a list so that an easy scan exposes missing ingredients, and allows a review
of how each item in any aspect relates to every other item. Connecting the items in the
list to one another creates a "web" of your life.
Omit the negatives (what you want to avoid) and
include the things you do want. Omit the tools or techniques you
expect to use, leaving open the decision of how you achieve them
until your take action. Some people find that expressing the statements
in the present tense (as if they already were true) is more
effective than in the future tense. This leaves flexibility to exploit
the best options available when the time comes to act.
Other related discussions of the holistic goal:
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