The Personal Manifesto

Here’s where we started:

Chip Conley:  Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile

Rick Warren: A Life of Purpose

Maslow’s Hierarchy Diagram

Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Graphic

2/21/17

Read these articles

Psychology Today

Evolutionary Ethics

Then, consider these manifestos:

Holstee Manifesto

Everybody’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen)

Lululemon Manifesto

Women in Business

Frank Lloyd Wright

Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

279 Days to Overnight Success

The Expert Enough Manifesto

The Passive Aggressive  Manifestosto

Dylan Root

 focus   Use the table of contents as a “list,” then read any section(s) you like.

Detail some observations, questions, challenges, and your preliminary thinking on the process of writing your manifesto here.

2/24

Here’s your reflection for today, the one I will not read…

Where are the chinks in your armor?  What things do you think/feel/expect on a daily basis that fly in the face of everything you think might be right or good or just in the world?    In other words, what is hidden?

We all have strictures that tie us to the ground.  What are yours?  How do they prevent you from living up to your values?

Additionally, how will you handle these?

Invest in these questions.  They are dark and scary, perhaps, but they are necessary.  A manifesto of this type, at this stage in your life, is not a pursuit fraught with glitter and butterflies.  It is an honest assessment of how you’re going to get where you’re going, wherever that happens to be.

The Process

First, gather a comprehensive list of your values.Begin writing your manifesto by making a list of the areas that you want to address. For example, you could make a list of the most important people in your life and write down how you intend to behave when it comes to each of them.

You can also decide to include areas such as the following:

  • Dealing with disappointment and hardships.
  • Dealing with failures and mistakes.
  • Dealing with opportunities and risk taking.
  • Daily interaction with others (waiters, cashiers, neighbors, and so on).
  • Choosing your attitude.
  • Your general approach toward life.
  • How you’ll treat your body.
  • How you’ll spend your money.
  • How you’ll spend your time.

In addition, you can create a manifesto by asking yourself questions such as the following:

  • What do I stand for?
  • What am I willing to die for?
  • What are my strongest beliefs?
  • How do I want to live my life?
  • How do I choose to define myself?
  • What changes do I need to make so that I can live my best life?
  • What words do I want to live my life by?

Here are five general guidelines for writing your manifesto:

  • Make it uplifting.
  • Use strong language (don’t be wishy-washy).
  • It can be as short or as long as you like (but don’t make it so long that you can’t read it every day).
  • Write it in the present tense.
  • Keep it positive.

You can also find some steps to writing here, here and here.

And here is a page that has several manifestos on it.

The manifesto you create must be a minimum of twenty-five (25) caveats/points.

The graphic representation is due on Thursday, March 2.  This means PRINTED, in its final form.

Use this link to create the graphic representation of your manifesto in PowerPoint.

Peer Review the Manifesto

Bless: Everything that is good about the piece.

Address: Essentially, the negatives

Press: Suggestions about changes to your work

Please upload your Personal Manifesto to this folder on my GoogleDrive.  Please title it:

Last Name First Name Manifesto

It must be uploaded by Tuesday, 3/7 at 11:59PM

Enter the link to your manifesto here.