Greed = Feeling entitled to more than you deserve, sooner than it’s possible, and becoming hostile, belligerent and retaliatory when thwarted, e.g. banks having a run on naive, trusting, unsuspecting investors and depositors and greeedy investors who minimized their risk tolerance and unqualified home buyers, overextended credit card holders who wanted more than they could afford, sooner than they could afford it.
Stress = When your feelings and impulses threaten to override your thinking, but with effort you can still maintain your focus on long term goals.
Distress = When your feelings and impulses override your thinking, and your short term need for immediate relief overrides your ability to stay focused on your long term goals.
Panic = What you do after you become completely controlled by your impulse to get immediate relief by either fighting or fleeing, e.g. when naïve, trusting, unsuspecting investors and depositors make a run on the banks.

Envy = Wanting what others have.
Jealousy = Begrudging others for having what they have and you don’t have.

Healthy = Feeling entitled to exactly what you deserve. Honest and honorable. Comfortable in their own skin.
Neurotic = Feeling you don’t deserve what you’re truly entitled to. Uncomfortable with lying. Not comfortable in their own skin.
Personality Disorder = Feeling entitled to what you don’t deserve. Uncomfortable with candor. Comfortable getting under other’s skin.
Borderline Personality = Spend 90 % of waking hours keeping others from controlling or abandoning them. Spend the remaining 10 % eating, sleeping and shopping for groceries.

Needful = Leaning into others.
Needy = Leaning on top of others.

High Maintenance = Easy to upset; difficult to please.
Low Maintenance = Easy to please; difficult to upset.

Young Love = Loving someone for what they do right.
Mature Love = Loving someone in spite of what they do wrong.

Measure of a Civilization = How it treats those who have hurt it and who are hurting in it.

Catch Mark on Monday, March 9, 2009 at 9 AM PST on Total Career Success