by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 25, 2019 | Resilience
From Bitter Reality to Resilient Living When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 18, 2019 | Resilience
For Those Who Lead “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 Stockdale. What...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 13, 2019 | Resilience
For Those Who Lead “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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 4, 2019 | Serendipity
Fresh Tracks, Fresh Start Laying down the first tracks in the falling snow in our neighborhood, my son and I savored the moment. No wind. Temperatures relatively mild, hovering right around freezing. The evening was lit up with the blanket of snow reflecting all...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 31, 2018 | Resilience
Considering Your Next Best Step Whether you are twenty-one and on the cusp of a move or ninety-two and writing your final chapter, you are considering your next best step. For the young, life is wide open and full of possibility. But even for those with decades under...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 14, 2018 | Serendipity
They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it. And now for something different. Amid the holiday hustle, there yet remain some profound moments of reflection as we wrap up a year and launch into a new one. Or, perhaps it is the very sentimental and...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 7, 2018 | Serendipity
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? And now for something different. Amid the holiday hustle, there yet remain some profound moments of reflection as we wrap up a year and launch into a new one. Or, perhaps it is the very sentimental and...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 30, 2018 | Caregiving
Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) Purpose is a tricky word. Loaded, yet it sometimes comes off as trite or insensitive. It seems easy for the person with everything going their way to speak of purpose. But, what does it mean to find purpose in the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 27, 2018 | Caregiving
Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) What if? Have you ever arrived at gratitude via the side door or perhaps the back door? Here’s what I mean. As Christopher Peterson articulates, “It may matter whether we think about the good things in our lives...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 16, 2018 | Caregiving
Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) On April 19, 1995, I was on the phone with a college bookstore in California when our office building shook and some of the windows blew out. I was working in downtown Oklahoma City. During those first days and...
