Retirement Quiz: Will You Pass or Flunk Retirement?

Posted by Transitions Through Life on June 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

As Sue considers retirement, she reported, “I know I will be a retirement failure. I’ve been struggling with the ‘afterlife’ for about five years; indeed, this is the most difficult ‘transition’ I have experienced, and it seems to be the case with many professional women of our ilk. We don’t want to ‘roll bandages.’ What else is there?”

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Life on Hold: Transitions Waiting to Happen

Posted by Transitions Through Life on June 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

“I haven’t died on schedule” wrote Mark Trautwein in his New York Times opinion piece (Sunday, June 5, 2011, p. 8). After his diagnosis he lived his life waiting to die. Prince Charles has spent a lifetime waiting to be King.

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Location, Location, Location—You Are Where You Live

Posted by Transitions Through Life on May 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

We constantly hear-location, location, location especially when realtors are discussing view, and neighborhood status. But there is a different way to think about location, location, location.

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Bouncing Forward, Not Backward—A New Look at Resilience

Posted by Transitions Through Life on March 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The rubber band is often used as the metaphor for resilience. It indicates that once pushed beyond what you can handle, with resilience, you eventually bounce back to where you are. But is bouncing back the right metaphor? Will anything ever be the same for the miners who were trapped in the Chilean mines? Or for those devastated by recent events in Japan?

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