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Midlife Mastery Journal: Life Is Coming At You - Are You Ready?
The only constant is change, yet we get a strange sense of (false) security from handling only those issues right under our noses. Not a good idea.
Avoiding the ?Drop? One Day at a Time
Growing up — maturing — is a never-ending process. Decisions have to be made every day, and every one of them makes a difference!
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These three — acceptance, trust, and engagement — are the attitudes that separate the mature man or woman from the adult. Disillusioned? Yes, but would you want to live in an illusion and longer than necessary?
Midlife Mastery Journal: Diversions, Distractions, and Drama
If the name of the game is 'Life', then 'uncertainty' is how it's played. All the other illusions are merely debilitating distractions along the way.
Midlife Mastery Journal: The Boomer Survival Guide
Don't expect to survive the strains of midlife by doing nothing . . . especially in this economy. You've got to DO something . . . but what?
When You Stand at the Turning Point
"Taking Care of Business" may be exactly the wrong thing to do when it's all about to come undone. In this economy, that could be tomorrow!
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This is your chance to become proactive: to build, to adopt, and to practice the strategies that will train your mind and heart (and spirit) not just to cope with, but to transcend and master those crisis situations that you fear the most.
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?
Sliding Downhill - from Commitment to Denial
A fundamental option represents a turning-point in your life. It can come at any time, as entropy hustles you along the path of least resistance from your commitment to an idealized vision of your life toward that brick wall (or, alternatively, that abyss
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The path of least resistance will inevitably lead to catastrophe. Midlife demands a constant recommitment to living a balanced life.
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?
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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?
Midlife Mastery Journal: Your Midlife Crisis, Transition, or Transformation?
If nothing else, midlife is the time for making critical decisions. How you choose will determine how successful you'll be.
The Only Way to Win the Battle of the Sexes
At midlife, it seems that men and women are at each others' throats rather than having each others' backs. For maturity to happen, things need to change.
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This current approach to masculinity and femininity sees the two as incompatible rather than as necessary complements to one another. Why must femininity be a threat to masculinity? Why must femininity betray itself to purchase success?
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.
The Mystique of the New
Knowing where you're going is critical; not only so that you can effectively steer your course but even more so to know when you've arrived.
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After all, you've now lived half your life, and you've learned a thing or two over these four or five decades, haven't you? You've made some mistakes and now, you think, it's time to put all that practical knowledge to work: out with the old, and in with the new!
Distracted by Life
'The Frazzled Entrepreneur' isn't at all a myth: it's the fate of too many men who jump ship from their careers to become an entrepreneur without enough thought. Things may not be as urgent as you think!
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Here's where, especially at midlife, men (and women) make their most serious mistake: their discomfort with the present state of their affairs causes them to see an urgency to their decision-making that may not really be there at all. And this deceived sense of urgency is your ticket to making poor (unfortunate) decisions.
Repent! The End is Near! (3)
'Begin with the end in sight,' writes Stephen Covey. As the year ends, now's a really good time to think about your end: who would you like to be then?
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What if you died in ideal physical condition, supporting yourself and your family by doing the things you love to do the most, with the people you most love surrounding you with unstinting intimacy, knowing the esteem of your peers, having created a meaningful and lasting legacy, at peace with yourself and your Higher Power?
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.
Repent! The End Is Near!
As we come to the end of the year, we might wonder, 'What do I do when I come to the end of a midlife relationship?'
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The road ahead is always totally dependent on the free-will choices that two individuals are going to make. Yet, as we approach the end of the calendar year, I think it wouldn't do any harm to offer some suggestions about what to do when a midlife crisis threatens to end a relationship.
?Twas the Night before Christmas
The holidays are a reminder, as the year transitions, that we, too are always in transition. The Spirit of the holidays can remind us that the joy of the season arises only from within.
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Love: that amorphous word that brings us into such deep intimacy with one another, and yet can be the tool of such profound separation.If I had one prayer, it would be that no one would ever again say to another, 'I love you, but I'm not in love with you.'
What to Do When the Tables Are Turned
'Men's midlife crisis' is a grouping of words that seem to fit together. What can you do you're the man and your wife's the one exhibiting the classic midlife crisis signs?
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I know that it seems counter-intuitive and unhelpful to be told that the best approach to your partner who's showing signs of a midlife crisis is 'hands-off,' but it's exactly true. Take for example the advice that's given to people who are in a relationship with people in active addiction (not an unusual situation during a midlife crisis either, I dare say): detach with love.
How Do I Avoid Thee? Let Me Count The Ways!
Many men would be really furious at me if they thought I questioned their courage. But it's true: women tend to be far more courageous than their counterparts.
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There are so many inventive ways available to a guy so that he can almost effortlessly avoid having to grow up. Virtual addiction using a computer and/or the internet represents only part of the story.
Where Do I Get Information on Midlife Transition?
Information on men's midlife transition is hard to come by. Here's a chance to get it live, up-close and personal.
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