Posts Tagged ‘values’
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Apart from outright physical and emotional abuse, I believe that many (if not all) relationships “on the rocks” could be healed under the right circumstances. From my perspective, the fact that this healing so often fails to take place could be an indication that one or both of the partners have stopped listening. Additionally, ceasing to listen indicates a spiritual problem.
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Tags: acceptance, anger, avoidance, blame, challenge, challenges, change, choice, communication, courage, crisis, death, denial, direction, emotions, engagement, faith, fear, future, grief, hope, humility, integrity, intention, isolation, love, mastery, maturity, meaning, midlife, Midlife Mastery, purpose, relationship, responsibility, Spirituality, transition, trust, values, victim
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Rather than focus on our ultimate destiny, leaving this world behind, our culture has chosen to replace a morbid fascination with death with a morbid fascination with rigidity and changelessness. Our obsession with youth and nostalgia for an imagined halcyon age in times gone by permeates not only our decision-making processes, but also the meaning we give to the world.
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Tags: culture, death, denial, direction, intention, mastery, meaning, midlife, Midlife Mastery, mission, purpose, values, vision
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
When you make a decision, you subconsciously engage your core values. That suggests that, if you want to determine what your core values really are, you should look at the decisions you’ve made over the past week or so and ask yourself what reasons you had for making each of them. If you can be honest about it, your collected reasoning will show you what’s really important to you (your values).
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Tags: choices, core, decisions, mastery, midlife, rationalization, reason, values
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
When you, as an adult planning for the midlife transition, begin to take stock of what it’s going to take to get you through it successfully, you need to take into consideration the fact that your priorities will change — and change drastically.
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Tags: assessment, goals, mastery, midlife, plan, priorities, risk, values
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