Flourishing consists of three major elements

Flourishing consists of three major elements. A sense of lineage, the experience of joy and fulfillment, and a focus on future growth. Lineage is a family's ability to celebrate his sense of who they are in the light of where they have come from. Joy and fulfillment is cultivated whenever you're in direct honest and timely communications, respect family members need needs and help your family focus on their strengths. And future growth is when you encourage parents to be both teachers and learners.

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk) · Cycle of the gift by James Hughes

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It is not from what you are given but from what you build with your own hands — our tradition says the one who enjoys the fruit of his own labor stands, in a way, even higher than the one who merely fears Heaven, because his joy is earned and real. Flourishing, when I finally tasted it, turned out to be three things woven together: a sense of where you came from, real joy in the present, and a purpose pulling you forward. Hold those three and you will not need to chase happiness; it will be a passenger on a flight that is already going somewhere. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

So the promise is this: I want to give you what I have learned about flourishing inside a family — and a family flourishes, the researchers say, exactly when each generation helps the others flourish, parents helping children and children helping parents, all of them becoming more fully themselves together. Real flourishing, they say, has three ingredients: a sense of lineage — knowing and celebrating where you came from; the joy of honest, warm connection in the present; and a shared focus on future growth. We will cover both directions of that: the work of raising the next generation well, and the work of honoring the one that came before. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)

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