I guess that some of my readers will indeed be a bit puzzled by the title of today's article, the ostrich syndrome, and that's understandable as it's a term which I've just coined. So D. Paul, what exactly does it mean, what is it meant to convey to us you may query?

I'm sure that most of my readers are familiar with the belief that when an ostrich is confronted with danger, it buries its head in the sand. And so we get the popular phrase which a whole lot of people use which is stop burying your head in the sand which means in effect, stop trying to pretend that you don't have a serious problem which needs to be confronted and dealt with as soon as possible. Actually, what I refer to as the ostrich syndrome is a state of denial. That's right -- there are a whole lot of people both young and old, male and female who are living their lives in a constant state of denial. In other words, they're people who have some serious problems, which they either deny that they have, or they realize that they have a problem but just refuse to deal with it.

For example, many have problems with alcohol, drugs or being overweight and thus are out of shape physically leaving themselves open to all sorts of health problems, physical and psychological. These people are in a state of denial -- they're burying their heads in the sand. Now until they take their head out of the proverbial sand and stop denying that they have a problem they cannot hope to succeed in life.

My friend, as Dr. Denis Waitley puts it in his bestseller "The Psychology of Winning" -- problems are opportunities. Yes indeed they are opportunities for growth, provided you stop denying them and thus face up to them and solve them without further delay. So today is the day to face up to reality, admit your problems and then proceed along the road of life with a whole new, positive attitude as you travel rapidly toward the target which is success city.

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