Archive for the ‘Self-Esteem’ Category

Cleaning Up the Wreckage Part I: “I Messed up!”

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

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.

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Life on Life’s Term

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Learning to live life on life’s terms is the great spiritual lesson of midlife: allowing us to transition from the adult attitude of self-willed self-determination to the more mature and realistic attitude of acceptance and trust.

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Recapturing Hope

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

‘Getting stuck’ at midlife means only that you’ve stopped believing in yourself, and have started down the road that’s been paved for you by those who have given up on themselves. Hope is a very fragile thing, and can be damaged or destroyed by trusting those who have already lost faith rather than paying attention to your own God-given destiny, purpose and value. Who you are and who you shall become can never depend on what others think of you.

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I’ve Wasted My Life!

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

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?

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When You Wake Up

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

If you’re at midlife, or if you’re facing seemingly-catastrophic loss, if you’re feeling lost, purposeless, directionless and completely bereft of any semblance of spirituality, rejoice! Your spiritual awakening is here!

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