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Smith Magazine invites us to summarise our lives in six words - ‘Six Word Memoirs’. I thought, ‘Easy! I have the Edgeware motto, near enough to six words: make money, have fun, change the world. I could lose the article before “world” and that’s the six.’
But it didn’t sound good, didn’t ring true. So I turned the Edgeware motto into a set of six action-oriented questions: ‘Make money’ became, “Is it economically sustainable?’; ‘Have fun’ became, ‘Is it personally meaningful?’ and ‘Change the world’ became, ‘Is it socially responsible?’ And that gave me a better handle on the ’six word memoir’life-summary exercise.
And this is the first draft. Earned keep; Smiled often; Behaved honourably. I’m sure it’ll change as I give the exercise more thought, but these concentration/focus/decoction games can be very productive, don’t you think?
