Home
Les Brown's Library tagged → View Popular
Commit or Die
The midlife transition for both men and women is no joke: it's a spiritual watershed point. What will you do when it happens to you?
-
What if, at some point along the gray, uneven flagstones that you shuffle over as husband, parent, provider, protector, and all those other hats that you wear from early morning until late at night without respite, you suddenly found yourself face-on with a seemingly-unbeatable foe or an insurmountable challenge? What would you do? . . . What could you do? . . . What will you do?
Turning Obligation into Celebration
The holidays are upon us, and, especially during the midlife transition, they can be overwhelmingly stressful. Can you redefine what they're about to keep your sanity?
-
If everything that your family does to prepare for, to celebrate, and to clean up from the holidays is done with only just a little love, the drudgery and obligation of this time of year can be transformed into a real celebration. Without it, I have my doubts.
When ?Bored? Is the Name of Your Game
When boredom stops being an occasional feeling and becomes a way of life, it can signal more than clinical depression. It can be a powerful indication that you're entering your midlife transition.
-
What recourse do you have when you get what you want, and you discover that it's not what you really wanted, after all?
I?ll Take the High Road — Will You?
Midlife presents each man with a clear fork in his road: one leads forward to an authentic life; the other backward to childishness. Your choice?
-
When the old principles from childhood start to erode under pressure from the realities of mature decision-making, sooner or later it becomes clear that ethical decisions are incredibly more nuanced than we had been led to believe.
Midlife Mastery Blog: More Than Muddling Through
Midlife crisis is the 'default' condition: the way things will happen if you do nothing at all. Want to avoid it? You can!
The Balance Beam: The Curse of Success — The Gift of Desperation
In life, 'failure' doesn't always come from not reaching your goals. Most times, it comes from reaching them only to find that they were the wrong ones to begin with.
The Balance Beam: Expediency, a Premeditated Catastrophe
Whenever we complain about things not going our way, we might want to take a look at our approach: how much planning has gone into things, and how much do we depend on plain old expediency?
The Balance Beam: Choice Matters
Freedom of choice is a great idea, even a human right. But every freedom has a proportionate responsibility. The freedom of choice turns out to have the biggest responsibility of all.
The Balance Beam: When Universes Collide
- H. Les Brown muses on what happens when our private universes collide, and what we'd need to do to steer the one we inhabit in a sensible direction. - hlesbrown on 2008-03-19
Selected Tags
Related Tags
Sponsored Links
Top Contributors
Groups interested in choice
-
Daniel's WOW List
Choice websites that have b...
Items: 32 | Visits: 110
Created by: Daniel Rivera
-
Room bookings, Hotel reservation system, Lastminute site, Discount hotel reservation, Book hotel online
Room bookings, Book hotel o...
Items: 1 | Visits: 43
Created by: Vijay Kumar
-
Drupal
drupal is my choice of CMS ...
Items: 470 | Visits: 95
Created by: Scott Blackburn
Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »
Join Diigo