I think that you and I can learn some serious lessons about how not to manage a midlife transition by observing carefully the scenario playing itself out on the world’s stage.
Read More..>>Whenever we engage in any creative endeavor, we make a withdrawal from our own emotional bank account. If we’re not making periodic deposits, sooner or later, the well will run dry and we’ll find ourselves working harder, enjoying it less, showing less creativity and poorer results.
Read More..>>From your youngest years, the underlying presuppositions of an individualistic culture such as ours molds your expectations of what ‘adult’ life should look like: what’s ‘normal’, what’s ‘unusual’, and, most especially, what’s ‘abnormal.’
Read More..>>The cultural ‘system’ can get very threatened when people choose to go outside the ‘norm.’ So each of us has been provided with a set of cultural ‘training wheels’ that seem to be permanently mounted and irremovable. These ‘training wheels’ are presented as cultural obligations and expectations.
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