Janus Lifecycle Perspective
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010How long do you want to live? What do you want to achieve in your life time?
The two most important questions that you can ask yourself.
Do you have answers for your life?
JanusLifeCoaching.com is founded on the principle and belief that our lives are judged by our actions. Success and failure are determined by how well we use the time and talents we have been granted.
I have lived long enough now to have witnessed a number of funerals. Regardless whether rich and famous or poor and lonely, one question comes through in celebrating the deceased’s life . The celebration focuses on what was accomplished and what might have been accomplished had things been different.
In our 21st century youth oriented culture, we tend to focus on and try to perpetuate the youth phase of our life-cycle and to ignore or hide the fact that we are aging. Medical science and medicine are giving us the tools to perpetuate the allusion of youth. Our pharmaceutical companies offer wondrous new creams, pills, dyes, and gels, to slow down, hide or reverse the appearance of age. Our commercial culture bombards us with images and products celebrate that wondrous youthful phase — 20 - 30 when we are/were young and healthy enough to do anything and old enough for society to allow you to do it.
But in today’s emerging global society, age and longevity are real issues for society, government, families and individuals. Technological and demographic changes are disrupting the established order. Cultural chasms are breakout and separating generations. They are breaking the traditional chain of growth and transitions in society and its parts. A growing, aging population threatens to overburden the health care system in many of the advanced nations, while a population explosion in the developing world threaten the very core of traditional cultures and institutions.
Life Expectancy at birth (years)
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over 80
77.5-80
75-77.5
72.5-75
70-72.5
67.5-70
65-67.5
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60-65
55-60
50-55
45-50
40-45
under 40
not available
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Life expectancy at birth (years) world map including:
1) 191 United Nations member states (all except Montenegro)
2) Republic of China - Taiwan
3) Western Sahara territory
4) 27 non-sovereign entities marked with a white hyphen (-) or a black asterisk (*):
- 23 dependent territories
- Hong-Kong and Macau: Special Administrative Regions of the People’s Republic of China.
- Occupied Palestinian Territories: West Bank and Gaza Strip.
There is not much anyone of us can do to change the tide of global development nor the evolving human impact on the planet. However, we can have a impact on that small piece of the universe which is under our personal control. For example, How we will treat those around us? How we will will treat our body? How we will use our talents and gifts, i.e. our minds? How we will use our spirit and energies? These are under our person control –IF we are willing, on the personal level, to responsibility for HOW we will use the time we have on this planet.
The Janus Lifecycle Strategy is based on the idea that, like the Roman god Janus, each of us is one body (head) with two faces. One face is looking back at the past as we perceive it and the other in looking into the future as we envision it.
The past and future are in the moment from Janus point of view
In this moment, you and I have an opportunity, as we have always had, to influence how long we each will live and what we can accomplish in the time reexamining to us. But to do so means taking responsibility.
How do I take responsibility?
Janus says
Start by taking proactive control over your life today, by asking the question — how much time do I have left?
And once you have answer that question for yourself, take stock of where you are in your life and what you have accomplished and what you want to accomplish.