CHAPTER 12

STEP 5: REFLECT

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly…spending quiet times alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.—Susan Taylor

I once heard the statement, “There's a huge difference between thirty years of experience and one year of experience repeated thirty times.” I love this statement because it captures the true essence of wisdom. Wisdom is not about putting in time in this thing called life. It is about the profound knowledge that can come from life experience. I say “can” because I don't think wisdom is the outcome of only life experience, for I know some children who are quite wise with little life experience and some very old people who are very unwise despite their long ...

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