Midlife Mastery Journal

In our journey to examine how to clean up the wreckage left behind by the poor choices we have made in life, we come to a turning point. We’ve acknowledged that we’ve done wrong and we’ve expressed our sorrow for it. Now comes the hard part: what are you going to do about it?In our journey to examine how to clean up the wreckage left behind by the poor choices we have made in life, we come to a turning point. We’ve acknowledged that we’ve done wrong and we’ve expressed our sorrow for it. Now comes the hard part: what are you going to do about it?

Every once in a while, we recognize that what we’ve chosen to say or do hasn’t worked out the way we wanted it to. We made a bad choice and the results are there, staring us in the face. Almost before we know it, out pops an “I’m sorry!” What does an apology mean? What SHOULD our apologies mean? Why are there so many of them, and why do they so often seem so insincere?

Everybody makes a mess from time to time. It’s the price we pay for growth and progress. If we’re wise, we learn from our mistakes; if not, we can wind up paying for them over and over again. In this first of five articles, Les Brown looks at how guilt can become a positive experience.

Acceptance of the changes and vagaries of the seasons depends upon our capacity to keep those changes in perspective; so the changes from youth to adulthood to maturity demands a perspective that only spiritual insight can offer.

Life provides us with unexpected twists and turns and even false starts and dead ends. Why does life treat us so badly? What are we expected to do with all our wasted time and effort pursuing goals and dreams that never panned out? What sense did it make to have to endure all that suffering for nothing?