Stubbornly refusing to rethink the tactics that used to work so well, your focus shifts to making the pain stop. Where do you find your relief? Whatever you’ve adopted as your principal method of stress relief: that’s your drug of choice.
Read More..>>Whether or not you’re ready for it, midlife also marks your shift from the sidelines to mid-field in the game of life. If you were very fortunate in your early years, you may have been spared from having to deal with what I’m choosing to call the “ten terrible transitions.”
Read More..>>Perhaps we should start, not so much with how your team won the game, what happened to your bottom line, or what you’ve adopted as your battle plan, but with what you learned about yourself from your last failed relationship, or the values that compelled you to walk away from that last job, or how you maintained your self esteem in the face of unemployment, or what it meant to you to have to cope with the death of a loved one or with a chronic illness.
Read More..>>When communication breaks down, then relationships break down, and then both party’s sense of personal well-being becomes compromised. I truly believe that many work and personal relationships (and egos) could be salvaged, if people only worked at perfecting the skills involved in resolving conflict and coming to consensus (meaning, “I can live with that decision”).
Read More..>>The midlife transition is all about transforming your life from the externally-motivated value system of the adult to the internally- (that means spiritually-) motivated life that characterizes the mature individual. One key factor in this transformation — a factor that is way too often neglected — is doing a moral housecleaning.
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