by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 14, 2023 | Resilience
Servant Leadership #2 Keep the mission before you and your team. Remember why you do what you do.When you come back to the point, the purpose, the mission of any endeavor, you bring clarity to the craziness. When you tell the stories that epitomize the point, you...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 7, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Servant Leadership #1 Do you have a “helpfulness bias?” Are you seeking to add value and help others in almost every situation? If so, you probably have influence. Are you able to champion other people? When they pursue a goal, can you truly be happy for them and find...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 1, 2023 | Serendipity
Don’t Delay When good things happen, celebrate! Don’t delay. Life is tough enough and we too easily forget and then, it’s gone. Allow yourself some joy.10 Things to celebrate:1. Good grades, degrees, promotions, new opportunities.2. Wedding...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 22, 2023 | Serendipity
Serendipity #3 Some of the most poignant lessons I have learned seemed to occur on my Meals on Wheels route in Abilene, Texas twenty years ago. For almost a year, the route had remained relatively unchanged. Same people, same faces, same routine. After a hiatus of...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 15, 2023 | Serendipity
Serendipity #2 Feeling somewhat unsettled all day, we went to the opening night of the OKC Symphony as planned for a lovely date night. As these skilled musicians mesmerized a full crowd of 2500 with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, my agitation remained....
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 11, 2023 | Serendipity
Serendipity #1 Traveling across the western states to take my son to college at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), we stopped in Flagstaff, AZ. Having never been to this lovely mountain town, we looked up the best rated pizza place and eased our way...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 2, 2023 | Caregiving
Learned Habits for Tough Times Sometimes the thing that is changing is beyond your control. Quite often, in fact. Nevertheless, we easily get stuck fighting reality when the past is in the past. Therefore, it is helpful to remember that YOU control YOU. In the midst...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 31, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Limits #2 Limits may not always be set in stone. Often, they move; they are dynamic and pose opportunities for breakthroughs.If you follow any stocks, you may be quite familiar with the support and resistance lines. These lines are always moving, but stocks tend to...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 19, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Limits #1 Acknowledging and setting limits can be very useful. It is often a sign of wisdom, earned through hard knocks or less-than-ideal results. Over a lifetime, you may learn to observe limits in eating, drinking, spending, working, and any area in which excess...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 11, 2023 | Resilience
20 Seconds #3 Sometimes, all it takes is a mere 20 seconds for you to realize that your life has changed….You got the job!…She said yes!…It’s a girl!…He died last night….You have cancer….We’re empty...