by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 14, 2014 | Resilience
“You have got to be kidding me!” I said once again. In the course of 5 weeks earlier this year, we experienced the following set of unfortunate events: I had another kidney stone (number six in my life). My wife had a gall bladder attack and gall...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 13, 2014 | Resilience
Some of us are strongly driven by feeling, some more so by thought. But, it’s never 100% one or the other. Each day, each week, I have a routine of tasks to do. These make sense in view of my monthly, yearly, and 5 year goals and they jive with my life...
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 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 | Feb 26, 2014 | Resilience
At any given point, most of us are doing something that is working. We have habits or practices that contribute to health, good relationships, productivity, or peace. Of course, at any given point, most of us are doing something that may be hurting the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 9, 2014 | Resilience
In 49 B.C. Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. The Rubicon is a shallow river in northern Italy and Caesar’s crossing of it has since become an idiom for passing a point of no return. Have you ever crossed the Rubicon?...
