Posts Tagged ‘mastery’

Staying Stuck – What’s Your Drug of Choice?

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

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.

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Every Change is a Little Death

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Although both adolescence and midlife involve a transformation that requires us to leave something behind, the losses involved in adolescence is masked with the opportunities to come, while the losses that come with midlife are heightened by our perception of the perceived decline that we will have to face.

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After the Fall: Recovering Your Initiative

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Sages, spiritual leaders and we coaches aren’t exaggerating when we insist that challenges are only opportunities in disguise. Properly managed, difficult transitions can be the most fertile ground from which incredible growth and progress can develop.

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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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Your Cultural Obstacle to Growing Up

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Whether you’re 15 or 50, you’ve got some growing to do. Yet most people who are reading these words are unaware that there exists a huge obstacle to your growth that you’re just taking for granted. In fact, if you’re like most people, you probably think that this major obstacle to growth belongs there: it seems like that’s the way things are supposed to be.

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