Resilience – Learning From Mistakes and Adversity
Catastrophic Thinking Can Be So Useful, and Can Run Amok
I know that catastrophic thinking – a sneeze means a cold means missing work means losing my job means financial disaster, all in less than three seconds – is my […]
Resilience Above and Beyond
Photo Credit: Whina It’s a rare privilege to learn of the extraordinary resilience of people, people like you and me, from Senegal and Morocco and Chile and Argentina and Syria […]
Not According to Plan
Not According To Plan When I drop my glasses in the airport and they’re crushed in the walkway between terminals, I get to meet the three kind souls who help […]
Listen for the Grain of Truth in Any Disaster
In a previous post, Hacked, Scammed – Lessons Learned, I mentioned that one of the first lessons I had to learn was “why didn’t I ask for help sooner?” Why […]
Hacked, Scammed – Lessons Learned
My computer was hacked and I was scammed two weeks ago. And the lessons learned are: Why was I so gullible? How do I push back on the inner critic? […]
Life Is in the Transitions
My friend William retired from his position with the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection just before the pandemic, no one yet knowing a shut-down of such long duration was […]
Take a Moment to Commemorate…
Amidst many American national holidays in June, honoring people’s struggles to be resilient in the face of ongoing hardship and heartache – the well-established (1910) Father’s Day on June 20 […]
Unlearning and Rethinking – the Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant began his research for Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know well before the coronavirus pandemic upheavaled our lives in countless (and seemingly […]
A Full Spectrum of Resources for Recovering Resilience
Three completely different resources that span the spectrum of what it means to be more resilient in 2021. Dance Across America is a 3-minute, high energy, culturally diverse tribute to […]
My Evolution of Resilience
I used to believe that life was somewhat linear, unfolding steadily toward growing up, becoming wise, finding fulfillment. If a big bump derailed a life from that path – “bad […]