<div dir="ltr"><div>In a recent listserv submission, I opined that the greatest gift of the Order's and EI's many gifts was RS-1. Another gift not far behind for me is CHARTING. I don't think I would be where I am today, in good physical and spiritual health, together with my precious wife Kate of 40+ years, two wonderful children, a gorgeous new grandson, a robust writing and publishing career, and a small group of dear friends--without the strong influence of charting in my life. </div><div><br></div><div>Here are a couple of paragraphs from the Substack article I published earlier this week that I invite you to read. If you agree that charting skills are an important life skill, I encourage you to recommend my Substack article to others, especially to non Order/EI/ICA alumni. The article makes a bold claim that readers can indeed <i><b>make the most of the rest of their lives</b></i> by embracing charting, specifically with the version I call LIFE MAPS. It also includes some life-charting freebies.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_md3rjx1w0" alt="Mature-Adult_Whole-Life-Map_MY-LIFE-MAP_David&KateMarshall.JPG" width="468" height="353"><br></div><div></div><div></div><div>
<p style="margin-left:40px"><span>..."Charting started for books, and then spread to other media such
as paintings, plays, and movies. Remember the old saying, “a picture
tells a thousand words”? It’s kind of like that. You can take a whole
book or screenplay and “draw it” with words on one page, with a
beginning, middle, and end. There is even a web page devoted to </span><a href="https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/deepening-facilitation-methods/dialogue/fmcharting/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">The Charting Method</a><span>
in the ICA Archives that describes the origin and how-to of charting,
written by some of the elders of the Ecumenical Institute such Joe
Mathews, Joe Pierce, and my father, Gene Marshall.</span></p><p style="margin-left:40px">"I was
introduced to book charting as a pre-teen, and then started creating my
own life charts as a teenager. The idea is to name the chapters of your
life just as if they were in a book, and then name the section headings,
and finally the title of your whole life. Titling your life, even as a
work in progress, can be very revealing...."</p>
</div><div></div><div><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/marshallbooks/p/making-the-most-of-the-rest-of-your?r=23ftwm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false">https://open.substack.com/pub/marshallbooks/p/making-the-most-of-the-rest-of-your?r=23ftwm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for taking a peek,</div><div><br></div><div>David Marshall</div><div>Class of Order/EI/ICA 1974</div><div>Moraga, CA</div><div><a href="http://www.marshallbooks.net">www.marshallbooks.net</a></div><div><br></div></div>