Comments on: A Powerful Shot-In-the Arm For ALL Baby Boomers! http://heartofsales.com/blog/2010/01/24/a-powerful-shot-in-the-arm-for-all-baby-boomers/ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Diane http://heartofsales.com/blog/2010/01/24/a-powerful-shot-in-the-arm-for-all-baby-boomers/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Diane Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:12:01 +0000 http://heartofsales.com/blog/?p=32#comment-176 Geoffrey, I take your intelligent comments as a great compliment. As I see you, you too, have a gift with the written word and the astute wisdom to know what you are talking about. And I sense that you read my message that is written in between the lines of my blog. I am 65 and when I was young girl I was a very successful elementary school teacher. At 30 I left teaching to raise my own three wonderful boys. I remember when I left I said to myself, “I am not going to come back to teaching elementary school. But, someday I will teach again, but I will be teaching adults, instead.” And that is exactly where I am now. However, never did I dream that the world was going to turn itself upside down like it has – that now I am teaching young adults all that I taught my delightful 5th graders long ago - LIFE SKILLS! And you make a brilliant point that I know too. Many of these young people are so bright, quick, multi-skilled and talented - far more than we were at their age. But they are desperately lacking the richest ingredient that we had the opportunity to learn - how to treasure the value of our elders and those wiser than ourselves. So, more and more, what I see to be becoming my true calling in this work: Is to write and teach the rich "Recipe of Life" that these young people so desperately need to savor so they can genuinely blossom into their own delightful right with happiness and heart! For, without embracing this recipe and taking it to heart, the value of the human element will become extinct! And I am open to any ingredients you have to offer for this Recipe. Again, thank you for your beautiful words! Diane Geoffrey,

I take your intelligent comments as a great compliment. As I see you, you too, have a gift with the written word and the astute wisdom to know what you are talking about. And I sense that you read my message that is written in between the lines of my blog. I am 65 and when I was young girl I was a very successful elementary school teacher. At 30 I left teaching to raise my own three wonderful boys. I remember when I left I said to myself, “I am not going to come back to teaching elementary school. But, someday I will teach again, but I will be teaching adults, instead.” And that is exactly where I am now.

However, never did I dream that the world was going to turn itself upside down like it has – that now I am teaching young adults all that I taught my delightful 5th graders long ago – LIFE SKILLS! And you make a brilliant point that I know too. Many of these young people are so bright, quick, multi-skilled and talented – far more than we were at their age. But they are desperately lacking the richest ingredient that we had the opportunity to learn – how to treasure the value of our elders and those wiser than ourselves.

So, more and more, what I see to be becoming my true calling in this work: Is to write and teach the rich “Recipe of Life” that these young people so desperately need to savor so they can genuinely blossom into their own delightful right with happiness
and heart! For, without embracing this recipe and taking it to heart, the value of the human element will become extinct!

And I am open to any ingredients you have to offer for this Recipe.

Again, thank you for your beautiful words!

Diane

]]> By: Geoffrey http://heartofsales.com/blog/2010/01/24/a-powerful-shot-in-the-arm-for-all-baby-boomers/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Geoffrey Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:59:30 +0000 http://heartofsales.com/blog/?p=32#comment-175 What a wonderful piece. Thank you! How quickly we forget all our blessings, especially when we're ego-centric. It's interesting to see how life seems to take on a whole new hue when we start a process of service. To serve our youth is a noble objective, because they have so many sources from which they can develop and form their belief systems; and if we, the 'older generation' don't take the time and trouble to inculcate and engender wholesome ideals into their lives, then what they're hearing in the angry rap music they hear somehow becomes vindicated. If we feel they treat us poorly, it may be that they are reflecting what they feel emanating from us. Reach out to them - we do have a head start, and we can show them some wholesome 'shortcuts' What a wonderful piece. Thank you! How quickly we forget all our blessings, especially when we’re ego-centric. It’s interesting to see how life seems to take on a whole new hue when we start a process of service. To serve our youth is a noble objective, because they have so many sources from which they can develop and form their belief systems; and if we, the ‘older generation’ don’t take the time and trouble to inculcate and engender wholesome ideals into their lives, then what they’re hearing in the angry rap music they hear somehow becomes vindicated. If we feel they treat us poorly, it may be that they are reflecting what they feel emanating from us. Reach out to them – we do have a head start, and we can show them some wholesome ‘shortcuts’

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