The Adventures of Self Podcast

Creating The Masterpiece Of Our Own Lives - with Charles Collins

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This week, Taylor takes an adventure with Charles Collins, to talk about the stages and phases that we move through in order to create the masterpiece of our own lives, the opposing energies that bring balance to life and the universe, how we can create the masterpiece that is our own life, and leave behind a legacy for future generations. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS  

  • It's important that within the four phases of apprenticeship, journey work, masterwork and mentorship, we are always learning new topics and improving skills.
  • Every craft, including life, has a series of stages that we pass through on our way to mastery. Every craft has a body of knowledge (what to learn).
  • Many spiritual and mystical schools teach that there is a balance between forces of energies in the world (yin yang for instance), and that they are exact compliments to each other. We cannot have one without the other.
  • What we have received, and what we are passing on to the future generations is our own immortality. This contribution will perhaps become anonymous to those beyond us, but it is still invaluable.

    • BEST MOMENTS

    'It's important to understand the context of moving through apprenticeship, to journey work, to masterwork, on to mentorship'

    'In any event all of those collectively go into creating us - the unique masterpiece of our own lives - if we are the craftsperson of our own lives'

    'It's a guide, but it also at the same time an organising structure'

    'In spiritual traditions there's a great understanding that there is always a tension between chaos and order'

    'At some point, you and I will cease to be, and it's what we create going forward. We are creating, even incrementally, a family heritage'

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    ABOUT THE GUEST

    Charles Collins is the best-selling author of the LifeCraft book series (available on Amazon), producer of the companion Making A Masterpiece of Your Life audio collection (available on Apple Podcasts), and Publisher of Life Masterpiece Journal (available on Medium).

    Handed down over the centuries by master craftsmen and craftswomen across the world, Charles reveals the time tested practice of 'craftsmanship', as the key to unlocking the universal principles of excellence for developing a high level of skill in any endeavor from personal and professional development, to managing your business, your household, and improving your parenting skills.

    Charles' work demonstrates how anyone can learn to practice 'Life-as-a-Craft' to achieve extraordinary results. It is a big-picture framework for managing life topics, similar to the way we manage our occupations and professions vs. the 'hit-or-miss' results of living by trial and error.

    https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Collins/e/B00AFBIDVC 

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-masterpiece-podcast/id1479241910?uo=4

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrKnggcE_BmL187hSmMDhrg/videos

    https://medium.com/lifemasterpiecejournal 

    ABOUT THE HOST

    Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.

    He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.

    Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.

    “The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”

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