by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 25, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
New Book! Receiving Peace #3 Relational Spirituality suggests that strengthening one’s relatedness to other people and to other sources of interest beyond self interest produces joy and vitality. To be sure, not all people produce this effect. But long-term isolation...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 18, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Receiving Peace #2 Whether you consider yourself religious or not, caregiving and chronic illness soon leads you into inherently spiritual terrain. These scenarios are frustrating. They make us mad and sad; and they prompt us to cuss and pray. Everyone experiences...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 3, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Receiving Peace #1 Whether or not you consider yourself religious, the experience of adversity soon leads you into inherently spiritual terrain. Like most of you, I do not wake up every morning with the proverbial bluebirds of joy and serenity on my shoulder. They...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 21, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Moments That Open Your Heart #1 Guarded. Tough. Skeptical. For survival purposes, you may have gotten very good at putting up a strong exterior. So much comes your way that it seems necessary. No blame. Most of us do this, especially as we travel through adversity,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 14, 2023 | Resilience
You and Your Brain Isn’t this a funny turn of phrase? Making up your mind?But, it’s a phrase you may have used, and if so, you know exactly what you mean by it. In small ways, we may often make up our minds to do this or that. But often, this phrase belies...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 6, 2023 | Resilience
A Crucial Shift to Prevail Restart”You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end–which you can never afford to lose– with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,” according to Admiral Jim...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 31, 2022 | Resilience
New Year Prep #5 Avoid. Fall behind. Finish frantically. Too often, I have followed this dubious path on projects, deadlines and various endeavors. Perhaps you identify.What if you choose one area, one project, one goal in 2023 and lean into it with this mantra? Be...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 23, 2022 | Resilience
New Year Prep #4 When you accomplish something big in 2023, how will you celebrate? When you execute on a new habit or rhythm, how will you mark this grand achievement? Too often, you may be tempted to overindulge to the point that the celebration seems...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 17, 2022 | Resilience
New Year Prep #3 When you group habits together, you can leverage rhythms and routines to make exponential progress. You probably already do this to some extent. Many people have morning routines, evening routines and various rhythms throughout the day. Shower, shave,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 10, 2022 | Resilience
New Year Prep #2 Your habits compound…for the good and the not-so-good.According to James Clear, “Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you...
