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Medical Disability Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Persuasion

Posted onOctober 3, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What does it mean to “persuade”? Is it an outcome-based event? Can one be “persuasive”, yet never persuade anyone to act upon a commitment made, perhaps verbally or with a nod of the head? What of a person who everyone agrees makes the most persuasive arguments, turns everyone’s heads with accolades of “wow” and “boy!”, yet no one can find a single person who has been persuaded to change one’s mind or follow? How about in battle – of that skinny little runt of a captain who nervously spoke, but who charged the troops up with great words and ideas […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: The Soul’s need for silence

Posted onJanuary 26, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

If the world was merely one constant clatter, would we be able to stand the din of life? Just as existence needs nothingness in order to have the separation of meaningful discourse, and as sentences need grammatical pauses (except in the cases of Faulkner and Joyce, perhaps), so the soul requires silence in the face of difficulties uninterrupted. Medical conditions create havoc in lives; at first, perhaps just an annoyance or a nuisance, and the natural inclination is to rely upon the past that we know, and how […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: The factors to consider

Posted onJanuary 25, 2017February 15, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Whenever a problem arises, are you the kind of person who immediately rushes headfirst in order to “solve” it? Are you like a first responder who by necessity, duty or conscience of being, sprints to save and runs to resolve? Or, in contradistinction to circumstances that require thoughtless effort but urgent actions, do you consider the factors and ask the question, What criteria must be applied? […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Natural empathy

Posted onJanuary 20, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is there such a thing, or do we just fake it even when we do not naturally “feel” it? If the official, technical definition fails to make the distinction between “feeling” and “understanding”, does it not discount the differentiation of the traditional bifurcation – that of rational capacity as opposed to part of one’s emotional quotient? Further, if it is merely an emotion, do some have a greater capacity because of a genetic predisposition, while others at a minimal level acquired through accident of birth, and thus can one be held responsible for merely being who we are? On the other hand, if it has a closer affinity to an “understanding” one possesses, […] Read More …