After effectively 60 years of collecting and thinking about strategies for living a good life, I am ready to upload “My Living Manual” to my website of the same name.
This manual contains over 1270 systematic strategies for living based on the ancient Hebrew and Christian concept of “shalom”.
“Shalom” is usually translated as “peace”, but it is much more than that. In 1977, I discovered that it is an ordinary Hebrew word for “growing towards wholeness” on four levels of human interaction – the personal, interpersonal, community and cosmic levels (see the detailed explanation in the book).
This book is freely available for download by anyone who might like to witness one individual’s attempts at grappling with the question of how to live a “good” life.
As mentioned elsewhere, this manual is a “living” manual because it not only deals with the business of living, but is also a “living” document. The plan is to continually update the book as I come across new or better strategies for living.
My intention is to publish a post or blog entry here every time I upload a revised version of this “living” book. The posts will essentially contain a list of the changes I have made, and where appropriate, my thinking behind the changes.
As mentioned in the introduction, this manual is directed at me and the advice here is for me based on wisdom I’ve discovered on my life journey so far. Feel free to browse the topics of interest and hopefully, something I’ve learned my prove useful to you as well.
Geoff James
November, 2022.
My Living Manual 