Posts Tagged ‘catastrophe’

Living at Statistical Ground Zero

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

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.”

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Sliding Downhill – from Commitment to Denial

Monday, February 16th, 2009

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) that awaits you along your chosen (however unfortunate) course.

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Coping with Financial Catastrophe

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

You need to understand that, whenever catastrophe hits, you necessarily go into reactive mode. The almost irresistible need to do something proves to be a far greater threat than the catastrophe itself.

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Midlife and Catastrophe Consciousness

Monday, August 4th, 2008

One of the legendary characteristics of childhood and the teenage years has to be the sense of indestructibility and immortality that accompanies that period of life. That sense of permanence begins with a lack of appreciation for mortality and, like many aspects of childhood that pass into adulthood, continues to affect attitudes and behaviors through what amounts to a denial of death.

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