Archive for the ‘Self-Esteem’ Category
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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Tags: acceptance, error, fault, guilt, mess, mistakes, shame, wreckage
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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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Tags: acceptance, change, diversity, maturity, surrender, tradition, trust
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‘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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Tags: acceptance, faith, hope, learned despair, Self-Esteem, trust, unforgivable sin
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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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Tags: blame, dead end, meaning, purpose, religion, Spirituality, suffering, victim, wasted life, wasted time
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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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Tags: dark night, dark night of the soul, direction, loss, meaning, purpose, spiritual awakening
Posted in Body Image and Health, Career and Finance, Life Vision and Goals, Science, Self-Esteem, Spirituality | 1 Comment »