by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 10, 2015 | Resilience
How a Growth Mindset trumps a Fixed Mindset Standford University psychologist Carol S. Dweek, PhD identifies mindset as a fundamental difference maker in our lives. On the one hand, a fixed mindset assumes that everything is pre-determined, limited, and unchangeable....
by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 3, 2015 | Resilience
Living well today and releasing yesterday When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. is attributed with this quote, but many others have asserted similar statements. I tend to...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 29, 2015 | Serendipity
Reflections from Black Mesa The scene unfolded before me as I leaned back in my camping chair. Near dusk, my 10 year old son cast a line into the creek in front of our campsite. As he deliberately managed the reel, an industrious beaver swam down the middle of the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 19, 2015 | Spiritual Stuff
Words from the end About six years ago, I had the honor of conducting the funeral for a centenarian. As with many centenarians, she was spunky, strong-willed, and a bit mischievous. She had handwritten a three page letter of her funeral requests with exquisite detail....
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 10, 2015 | Spiritual Stuff
For your life, not just for your lawn Last Saturday, I did a four hour meditation on weeds. This mental/spiritual exercise was aided by the fact that I was literally pulling weeds in our yard for those four hours! We loved the May showers, but since I didn’t do...
