Resilience – Learning From Mistakes and Adversity
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 […]
Shit Happens. Shift Happens, Too. New Resilience Program for the New Year
You could say 2020 was one shit storm after another. Shutdowns from the pandemic that have not yet truly opened up again. Hostilities along racial, class and political lines that […]