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Repent! The End Is Near! (2)
This has been a very tough year for people, especially men at midlife who face job loss. If that's you, what could help you get through it even stronger than before?
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What can you do when you've come to the end of a job, a career, or a contract? Your first and most important move should be to get in touch with how you feel. This is critically important because of the nature of our culture.
Xenophobia and You
If fear lies at the root of every midlife crisis (and it does), then what steps must we take to defeat it? Overcoming cultural bias is a primary strategy.
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Whether you experience that transition in terms of fear or excitement — whether your focus is on what you may be leaving behind or what you're about to gain — will determine, to a great extent, the ease and, ultimately, the success of your transition.
Living Life on Life?s Terms
Just because we've lived long enough to be of 'retirement age' doesn't mean that retirement will actually happen for us. In fact, we need to prepare for just the opposite.
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There's no need for you to fear the challenges of maturity. Facing them head-on gets you over that soon enough. Your real fear should be that you get to the end of the road and look back only to see that you never got to fulfill your real purpose.
The Scariest Hallowe?en Ever
What's more frightening, fantasy or reality? Is it any wonder that people naturally prefer to get scared by their fantasies? But, it's the realities that are out to get you!
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Mastering the art of the midlife transition means focusing on what's really going on inside you. It means fearlessly bringing all those bogey-men out into the sunlight and taking a serious look at them. It means acknowledging yourself as exactly who you are, where you are, and where you're headed.
The Balance Beam: Mahatma Gandhi Is a Fan of Mine
If anyone wants to know a sure-fire method of changing the world, all he or she needs to do is to study Mahatma Gandhi. The message couldn't be clearer.
The Balance Beam: Sounding the Fears of the American Male
"Righteous indignation is envy with a halo," read a sign in front of a church some years ago. It's good to look at what outrages us to really see our hidden desires.
The Balance Beam: A Liberal Manifesto
'Liberal' and 'Conservative' are labels that matter: not only in the polling place, but more especially in the decisions of everyday life. One attitude leads to growth, the other to extinction. We have that choice.
The Balance Beam: The Human Culture of Conflict
Are we surprised and dismayed at the controversy surrounding the Olympic torch run in the context of China's treatment of the Tibetan minority? Let's start with our own perceptions and attitudes, shall we?
Ask Auntie: My Staff Is Driving Me Crazy!
- Our reader is upset because the staff's quirky behavior is crazy-making. Auntie points out that change is an inside job, and that acceptance is the key. - hlesbrown on 2008-03-13
Ask Auntie: Fear of Success or Fear of Failure?
- Today's question is about wasting time. Auntie points out that it's not really a question of better resources management, but of re-adjusting our worldview to something more accurate and less threatening. - hlesbrown on 2008-02-19
Ask Auntie: Confronting a Fearful Arrogance
- An entrepreneur-reader wants everybody to get off his case. Auntie suggests (strongly) that the problem doesn't really lie with them. - hlesbrown on 2008-01-28
Letters from Auntie Cyclone: What's the Worst That Could Happen?
- Our fears around self-esteem don't come from within, they arise out of our comparisons between ourselves and our perceptions of our social groups. To modify one, we have to address the other. - hlesbrown on 2008-01-04
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