The U curve, to us, says that what goes down can come back up again, although perhaps not in the same place.
In our experience, there is a buoyancy to life that tends to let us all bounce back.It's an important principle to remember, because on the way down and when you're on the bottom, rising again can seem to be an unlikely outcome.
There's a joke doing the rounds in Sydney: what's optimism for a banker? Answer: ironing five shirts on a Sunday night.
All the employment surveys are showing that job ads are down, employers hiring intentions are falling, and the official unemployment rate is expected to fall, if not this month, then sometime early in the new year.
One of the fortunate consequences of big changes in our lives is that it allows us to get to know ourselves better. That can be a hard thing for men who are used to dealing with the practical rather than the emotional or spiritual. Chris Barker from the University of Wollongong studied what men went through when they looked deeply into themselves for his book The Hearts of Men.
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