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1) Upsiding the Downturn
Author:
Colin Tipping
Category:
Finance
By any standards, we look to be in a bit of economic mess right now and in many ways the future looks bleak and uncertain. If you are in danger of losing your home or your job, you know this only too well. If you are in a predicament like this, I don't doubt that you are feeling fearful, angry and worried about your future. Who wouldn't be?
But as you may know, in the Chinese language the same character is used to mean both danger and opportunity. Knowing, as you do, a little more about ho...
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2) Be In the NOW, Not In the DOW
Author:
Colin Tipping
Category:
Finance
Understandably, people everywhere are feeling that the old paradigm has let them down. They worked hard for years and years in order to create some security for their senior years and for their children and now they see it melting away. They are losing their jobs, their homes, their pensions and savings. They feel angry and betrayed about the American Dream having been shown to be just that - a dream.
Is this how you are feeling? I don't blame you. You are entitled to be angry and, as usual,...
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3) Getting a Jump on Thanksgiving Jitters
Author:
Colin Tipping
Category:
Home and Family
As Thanksgiving looms, a familiar queasiness in the gut may be forming as you contemplate the annual family get-together. But I doubt your concern is about what dishes people are bringing for the table. Rather, my bet is you are worrying about the emotional baggage that everyone, including yourself, will be bringing along with them and hiding under the table. Permit me to show you how these jitters might be seen as an opportunity.
The Thanksgiving family get-together has cultural and histori...
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4) Why We Must Forgive Our Parents
Author:
Colin Tipping
Category:
Self Improvement
Few people going through a messy divorce in mid-life would blame their own parents for their predicament. Neither would a business owner betrayed by a trusted partner normally think in those terms. A person who loses his job every five years would also not say that his grandfather was to blame.
Yet there may be some justification for people making just such an accusation, even about the most loving and dedicated parents, step parents or grandparents. Because, the fact is, much of what ha...
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5) How Radical Forgiveness Works
Author:
Colin Tipping
Category:
Self Improvement
Ordinary forgiveness is 'letting bygones be bygones'. A certain willingness to forgive is implied but the belief something wrong happened is never questioned. "You did that to me, but I'll let you off the hook and forgive you."
Research based at Seattle University, WA showed that ordinary forgiveness:
(a) is universally difficult.
(b) takes a long time - typically years. (Success was defined as finally feeling peaceful about the situation.)
(c) The more people tried to 'will' forgivene...
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