Life-cycle

I was reading about adult learners, and what or how exactly to define ‘adult’ learners. Came across the following from Dan Levinson, depicting the phases in our adult life - makes for interesting reading..

Early Adult Transition (age 17-22)
Here you are leaving adolescence behind and taking your first steps in the adult world.

The Novice Phase (age 22-28)
At this stage you begin to develop your dreams about the way you would like your life to go. Often, we find some kind of mentor in our personal or professional lives, or both. We also state to make choices about our careers.

Age 30 Transition (age 28-32)
Towards the end of our twenties, we begin to realise that life for real. This can be a stressful time as we either make new choices or get used to the choices we’ve already made.

The Settling Down Phase (age 32-40)
Now, we are establishing a place in society and trying to make it in our chosen careers or jobs. At this point we often strive for wealth or fame or recognition or social status.

The Mid-Life Transition (age 40-45)
This is another period where we take stock of our lives. Forty seems to be the age at which we can look backwards over our lives and forwards to what is to come. We start asking ourselves some very serious questions indeed about success and failure. A lot of us refer to this kind of age as the mid-life crisis.

The Mid-Life Phase of Renewal (age 45-52)
This is the point at which to listen to ‘your inner voice’ as it were. Its when we think of all the things we wanted to be or do and dot he ones that we still fancy, if possible. We accept our responsibilities and try to balance demands that home and society demand.

Age 50 Transition and the Legacy Phase (age 52+)
Around our early fifties we begin to think about what it is we are going to leave behind us. After which we then move on to making sure that we leave some kind of legacy. Often the legacy is one of great creativity.

Free dinner..

Last night myself and a friend were out ... after checking out a pub or two, we strolled by a Chinese Restaurant – and to our surprise it was still open and serving at 11.00pm – so we decided to get a bite to eat .. (Was better than the other option of Abrakababra! ;)
We were seated at a table beside 3 guys... Anyway... to cut a long story short – when we were finished eating and asked for our bill, the waitress informed us that the gent at the other table had paid for our meal!!
..Has this ever happened to anyone else? What does it 'really' imply?

2008 season starts up..

Watched the draw for the 2008 championship last night – and relayed the draw results to Cuba and England (siblings are scattered at mo).
For all you folk interested in the Ulster championship, Monaghan will play Fermanagh and then face the winners of Donegal/Derry. The other side is Tyrone/Down v Armagh(/Antrim/Cavan) Lots of interesting encounters ahead!! ;)
Re. The infamous Galway double.. will it be possible? In football they face Roscommon in their first day out and then play the winners of New York/Leitrim. If they win that they would face the winners of Mayo v London/Sligo... a few little challenges before they get to semi-final stage..


Keeping with the sports theme, John Duddy (the Derry boxer based in the US) is fighting this weekend..

Clones Colossus

As fellow bloggers have been promoting their own hometowns, i thought it best to shout about our Co. Monaghan famous export! ;)
Kevin McBride is fighting again! He has a fight this Saturday in Madison Square Garden. You may remember the name from his famous win against Mike Tyson last year (or perhaps you remember him from his famous speech.. it went something like 'i got the whole weight of Ireland behind me'
Best of Luck to Kevin Saturday night!!! ;)

Rain, Rain..

Rain rain go away,
And please come back another day

(and preferably on a day i don't have to leave the house!)