by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 4, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
For a moment, I paused. With intention, I filled my nostrils and lungs with the cool, moist air of a Tennessee Spring day. My eyes landed on dogwoods just beginning to bud, red bud trees already splashing the landscape, and the pronounced hint of green on the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 31, 2014 | Resilience
In order to make large changes to improve your life or situation, you may find it most helpful to go upstream and make small changes. What does this mean? Well, think of a creek that floods over the road every time it rains. You could tear up the road and...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 21, 2014 | Serendipity
Writer’s block. Nothing flowing. Energy zapped. Stuck. With the laptop in its appropriately named position, I sat in the chair in the dark in our bedroom. Staring at the screen. Surely I can think of something to write. Nothing. My “then seven year...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 11, 2014 | Resilience
What adversity have you faced in your life? Think for a moment, perhaps back even forty years, of all types of challenges you have faced in your life. It may be that some experiences got the best of you, but I would be very surprised if you hadn’t...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 4, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
Have you ever fallen into a mental funk? As in, you just keep repeating and rehearsing defeating messages, bad life stories, and discouraging sequences of events? At some point, we are all prone to slip into the habit of bad self talk. But, we must stop it! I...
