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. 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 *make the most of the rest of their lives* by embracing charting, specifically with the version I call LIFE MAPS. It also includes some life-charting freebies. [image: Mature-Adult_Whole-Life-Map_MY-LIFE-MAP_David&KateMarshall.JPG] ..."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 The Charting Method <https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/deepening-facilitation-methods/dialogue/fmcharting/> 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. "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...." 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 Thanks for taking a peek, David Marshall Class of Order/EI/ICA 1974 Moraga, CA www.marshallbooks.net
