What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Every day is a gift and an opportunity to experience and act with a positive vision of faith, hope, and kindness. Our future is determined by our actions today, how we address challenges, how we present ourselves to others, and how we interpret the past. Our past can never change, only be reinterpreted with the lens of experience. In the past, we all attempted to make the best choice with the information we had available to process the situation at that time of life. As we move through our life experience we gain new perspective that we may wish we had earlier. For me, that opportunity to share my presence and experience for the benefit of others is a primary motivator as I move through my days. To help others experience life fully gives my life meaning, as does my sharing of my experience of my family and friends. The chance to make a positive difference in my world is an exciting and transforming experience.
What's the story behind your latest book?
Virtual Immersion began a discovery of myopia, after watching my children holding their little screens close to their eyes. One of my boys told me I try to find out what was wrong with screen-time, so I decided to seek the values and benefits of playing video-games, which led me on my investigative path. Each of us has a finite amount of time each day, which has traditionally been used by children to engaged in free-play to avoid boredom. Creativity and Imagination are often the result of boredom, yet with constant streaming screens boredom is eliminated. i wondered what else was being lost, and the effects of this developing void from a developmental and experiential perspective, My first book, 4015 days explores options in life experience sculpture. The understanding that we have certain periods of time to accomplish life goals is presented early in contemporary society (early childhood, elementary school, high school, college, career and family, retirement). The challenge of experiencing and creating family as a provider and participant, choosing experience and connection over immersion in work and acquisition. In a world where many people work 50 hours a week, 48 to 50 weeks a year to buy the good life, I have decided to define an attainable life, and what does it require of the individual. I believe the good life requires presence and immersion, more than consumer orientated acquisitions and status symbols.
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