by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 10, 2016 | Serendipity
Singing reveals and jumpstarts a good mindset Singing in the shower, humming while you walk down the sidewalk, or whistling a tune in the car…these all reveal good thinking. If you are worrying, fumbling with difficult decisions, or brooding generally, you are...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 3, 2016 | Resilience
Words that resonate deeper with time Dating, wooing, trying everything in the book to get this girl to like me. I pop in the soundtrack for the movie, Stand By Me, and play the title track. Giving it my best Ben E. King, I harmonize pretty well, hamming it up for the...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 31, 2016 | Spiritual Stuff
Permission to Enjoy Small Pleasures Can you enjoy small pleasures? Or, have you become so accustomed to them that only bigger and bigger enjoyments do the trick? According to Dr. Christoper Peterson’s observations on a study from 2010 inPsychological Science,...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 20, 2016 | Resilience
Tis the season for transitions Late May, so it is the season for graduations, weddings, first jobs, summer jobs, retirements, and more. These are passages. And all passages entail transition. As William Bridges has so astutely pointed out, transitions involve three...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 16, 2016 | Spiritual Stuff
5 Places to Find the Light Light is everywhere. Often though, our minds enter a pattern of fumbling in the dark. It gets depressing, quite literally. So, where can we find the light again? How do we re-emerge to the life we want to be living? 1. In the eyes of...
