by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 21, 2025 | Resilience
Creating Good Habits #1 In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg articulates how habits form, both good and bad.First, you have a craving or a cue. Then, you follow a routine or a response to this. Why? Your routine yields a reward.Example: You hit the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 14, 2025 | Resilience
Mountaintops #2 What mountain are you climbing? Perhaps you are preparing for a literal mountain climb. More likely, your climb is related to a season or era of life calling upon your endurance to complete the caregiving task, get your child through...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 8, 2025 | Resilience
Mountaintops #1 I spent the summer of 1994 in Japan. Living with a Japanese family, I completed my next-to-last semester of college and enjoyed traveling around the country as well as seeing Hong Kong and South Korea. One of the true highlights was climbing Mount...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 12, 2025 | Resilience
Facing Fears #2 You may think that other people have no fears. In that, you would most likely be wrong. Even your heroes have certain fears and hesitations and avoidances. But, they find ways forward anyway. Things people fear: …Asking the question…Trying new...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 1, 2025 | Resilience
Facing Fears #1 “Fear and courage are not mutually exclusive,” Brene Brown articulates so precisely. You may tend to think that the courageous do not experience fear or that if you have fear, you are not courageous. But, this is not so. The difference comes not from...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 27, 2024 | Resilience
Focus What one thing would make the most difference in your life in 2025? While you have hopefully reflected on all aspects of creating a healthy life in 2025, there is probably one effort that rises above the others. One goal, one mission, one result. On December 31,...
