Better Resilience:  Persistence is Fundamental

Better Resilience: Persistence is Fundamental

Persistence and resilience are not the same.  In fact, persistence is just one piece of a puzzle in what makes one resilient. In our journey through life, we encounter a multitude of challenges, setbacks, and obstacles that test our strength and resolve. ...
10 Powerful Resilience Quotes

10 Powerful Resilience Quotes

These ten powerful resilience quotes are fueled with motivation, strength, power, determination, grit, perseverance, adaptability, overcoming, courage, and inspiration.  Quotes can be a succinct way to summarize, or pull multiple pieces or points together into a...
Increase Resilience & Strength Through Uncertainty

Increase Resilience & Strength Through Uncertainty

Diving into uncertainty and overcoming builds resilience.  Putting yourself in situations where you lack control, confidence, and strength is truly an act of courage.  While these situations might be scary and intimidating, your mental strength and...
5 Facts of Life that are Extremely Hard to Accept

5 Facts of Life that are Extremely Hard to Accept

Certain parts of life are undeniable truths. That does not make them easy. No matter how much you fight, resist, or struggle, there are certain facts of life that you cannot make go away. Sometimes we fight with ourselves.  We have entire arguments in our own...
The Reliable Old Gray Bra and Spring Cleaning Your Life

The Reliable Old Gray Bra and Spring Cleaning Your Life

This is a lesson in “spring cleaning” your life. This is a story about an old gray bra. This is a love story.  This is a story about hardship and despair.  This is a story about survival and overcoming.  This is a story about loyalty.  This is a...
4 Powerful Women with Resounding Impact

4 Powerful Women with Resounding Impact

Are you an inspirational woman?  Yes, you are.  You are both inspiring and you get inspired.  You are both tired and fierce.  You are both calm and aggressive.  You are both understanding and impatient.  You are both critical and...
Music is a Powerful Tool

Music is a Powerful Tool

Music is a fast, easy, cheap, and powerful tool you can use to improve your mood.  You can go from down-in-the-dumps to shining and smiling.  You can go from doom and gloom to positive and hopeful in no time at all with some mood-boosting tunes.  Music...
BEWARE – Afraid of the Dark

BEWARE – Afraid of the Dark

We are afraid of what we cannot see.  We are afraid of the dark.  However, there is not a boogeyman in every dark closet.  There is not an armed murderer in every dark alleyway.  And there is not a bad situation waiting for us around the corner...
Savoring

Savoring

Let’s be honest.  We all need a little more savoring in our life.  Yes, I am talking about slowing down to smell the roses.  I am talking about taking more than 8 minutes to scarf down a full meal that took an hour or more to prepare.  I am talking...
Unified by Struggle

Unified by Struggle

Instead of noticing how different we are from one another, have you noticed how unified we are? I grew up in the country, outside of a small, rural town with a whopping population of about 3500 people.  My hometown had three red lights.  My...
Who Am I?  A Basic Discussion About Identity

Who Am I? A Basic Discussion About Identity

Walk into an event, any event where you could be meeting people.  It could be a cocktail party, a PTO family social at your child’s school, on the bus or subway on your commute, or even just sitting next to someone in the doctor’s office...
My Identity in the Form of a Stat Sheet

My Identity in the Form of a Stat Sheet

In the sports world, each team and player’s performance can be, and is, summarized in the form of a statistics (stat) sheet(s). A player’s stat sheet helps define a players identity. A team or player’s statistics are collected and then analyzed by players,...
Not a Sidelines Kind of Girl.  Put Me in the Game.

Not a Sidelines Kind of Girl. Put Me in the Game.

I have had this thing bubbling on the inside of me for years.  I had no idea what it was or if I ever would.  I had no idea where it came from, why it was there, how it got there, or how long it would stay.  I could describe this phenomenon as both...