by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 29, 2024 | Resilience
3 Questions #2 Rather than think of ALL of the things to do, or all of the wrong things to do, ask this question. What is the smart thing to do? You may be surprised with clarity. It seems like such an obvious consideration that you may rarely articulate it in your...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 22, 2024 | Resilience
3 Questions #1 Sometimes this is the most difficult question to answer: What do you want? As you sift through challenges great and small, you attempt to organize the factors involved and the ramifications of making different choices. You consider other people and how...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 1, 2024 | Resilience
A Better Way #2 “Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice....
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 23, 2024 | Resilience
A Better Way #1 “Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems,” according to M. Scott Peck. He elaborates, “Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 3, 2023 | Resilience
Talking Yourself Into Better Attitude, Belief and Choice #3 You are living with two parallel realities, two parallel truths. Part of your experience in caregiving and living with a difficult condition is frustrating, maddening, depressing, and difficult. But this is...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 27, 2023 | Resilience
Talking Yourself Into Better Attitude, Belief and Choice #2 Will it sink or will it float? David Letterman used this question to test all types of objects for a humorous segment for years on the Late Show. Yes, physics with flair. Some items sank to the bottom, while...