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Midlife Mastery Journal: The Arrogance of Self-Destruction
Are your really that smart and self-reliant? Or are you secretly too arrogant to admit that there's something you don't know or can't do?
Are You a Midlife Entrepreneur?
It's best to have explored carefully what it means to be an entrepreneur (and what it costs) before you become one.
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Regardless of which path you decide to follow, make sure that you've talked it out thoroughly with people who know . . . people who'll challenge you, not just give you the answers that you want to hear.
When Will I Ever Learn?
If we can remember, we'll understand that adolescence ended at a point in time. Although the hormonal changes end with midlife, the deeper changes keep right on going.
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When will you ever learn? When will you no longer have to cope with fears and frustrations, mistakes and errors and the feelings of guilt that come with them?
Anger and Gratitude Don?t Mix
Living a life of gratitude requires one simple but profound change (that can really only happen at midlife): relinquishing anger. How's your track record?
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I never quite realized before now how significant the Thanksgiving celebration ought to be to men in midlife transition. It's an opportunity for us to lay aside our defensiveness and to give a sort of public recognition to the fact that we're most definitely not independent and self-sufficient.
Balancing Your Needs against Your Wants
Should your next career satisfy your basic economic needs, or should it satisfy the desires of your heart? Is there any way to strike a balance between them?
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You know the old saying: 'It's better to be safe than sorry'? As you consider your next career, balancing what you need with what you want, keep in mind that it's very possible to be both safe and sorry.
Statistics, Setbacks and Self-Esteem
When, during the midlife transition, it seems as though the universe has it in for you, you're not imagining it. Statistics support your feelings.
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When these things start to happen (as happen they must during the midlife transition), you have the choice of seeing yourself as the innocent target of the universe's cruelty, or of seeing all this as your opportunity to take your inner fortitude to the next level: bucking up and deepening your sense of reliance on Someone greater than yourself.
Recognize Your Emotional Sleight-of-Hand
As people get into midlife, they often become very busy taking care of very important matters. Too often, those 'matters' are merely a misdirection from what's really going on.
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The truth is that nobody's forcing you to do anything. The things you do (or don't do) are all of your own volition. You either want to do something or don't want to do something, and that's the end of it.
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: Are Past Successes Ruining Your Future?
In some ways, success can be more difficult to manage than failure. It's easy to let past successes give you the wrong message about who you are and who you will become.
The Balance Beam: We Need a New Set of 'Family Values'
What does it take to 'get ahead' in this life? Is it possible that our definition of 'success' is doing us (and our families) a disservice? Maybe we need to rethink it.
The Balance Beam: What Does It Cost You to Know It All?
If you're successful, have you ever considered that, when you don't receive the value you paid for, you might just be the culprit? It pays to give it some thought.
Ask Auntie: Discernment and the Law of Attraction
- Auntie continues with her discussion of the Law of Attraction, pointing out one of the serious drawbacks of using the LOA without proper 'discernment.' - hlesbrown on 2008-02-27
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: Auntie's 19th Nervous Breakdown
- Auntie's best friend, Obilvia deKrepit, writes for her today on integrating genuine empathy into both our business and social networking. - hlesbrown on 2008-01-03
Letters from Auntie Cyclone: Comprehending The True Meaning of Christmas
- Many think they comprehend the 'true meaning of Christmas' but it may not be what you think. The celebration is rooted in a renewed sense of humility. - hlesbrown on 2007-12-25
Letters from Auntie Cyclone: Where Are Your True Strengths?
- In our efforts to focus on our strengths, sometimes we don't quite know what to do with those unfortunate weaknesses that too often pop up along the way. Rather than put them away, perhaps it would be better to take a closer look. - hlesbrown on 2007-12-25
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