The Voyage Project

We, our lives, are a work in progress.... hmmm sounds a lot like a project!  I love projects.  I love managing projects.  I love life.  I love being the manager of my own life! Project Management (and life) is all about outcomes and minimizing risk to your project (uh, life). Here are some basic concepts of Project Management. Stakeholders Needs Vision Priorities Plan, Goals, Objectives, Milestones, Tasks, Work breakdown People and Resources, durations, availability The Critical Path, Dependencies Communication Time, Money, Quality Issues and Risks That sounds a lot like life. Why should one continuously improve in life or in general? "You're not important because you look good or because you have a whole lot of money.  You're important because you are created by God." - Mos Def That's the bottom line.  In the time space continuum you are as important as any other person. You are important because you are a beneficiary and stakehol...

During my life, I have felt like I was just surviving; that I needed something or somebody.  I have often felt like "I'm not getting anywhere".    In really hard times, I felt like I was losing it all; that some thing or some body was being taken away from me.   At other moments, I convinced my self that I didn't need anything or anyone!  I felt like I was existing, "making it", that I had what I needed or that I had my act together.  Most times I felt simply that I can do and be so much more. What do we need to survive?  What does it mean to thrive?  What does it mean to LIVE? Abraham Maslow was an American Psychologist who proposed a hierarchy of human needs to sustain the best psychological health of an individual to survive, develop and grow.  He studied the healthiest people in his network surmising that the study of “stunted” individuals would contribute to a stunted society (more on this some other time) . Maslow proposed tha...