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A Story of Gratitude

In my studies of gratitude, I came across a beautiful story of gratitude told by Maureen Deuterma. It offers a perspective of what matter most.

Email from a Friend

I received an email from a friend of mine today sharing the good news that he had been promoted to vice president in a prestigious company.

Now, I’m not certain what this means, but added to his retired government employee pension, I’m fairly sure it translates into pretty big bucks.

Was I pleased for him? I should have been. He put...

How to Change Your Mental State

I remember a Peanuts cartoon from years back. Here’s Charlie Brown, shoulders slumped, head down and arms at his side as Lucy approached. He says to Lucy, “This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed it makes a lot of difference in how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you have to stand like this.”

The Power in Your Posture and Physiology

I thought the car...

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The Goal of Managing Stress—Accessing Your Wise Mind

I my last article I talked about how our brains and bodies respond to stress. Today I want to explore the goal of stress management which is achieving an optimal state of arousal in the middle of a threat.

As you can see from this diagram, the mind can be in optimal arousal (necessary to respond appropriately to a threat) or hyper or over arousal or even hypo or under-arousal.

Being either over aroused or under aroused will not only keep you from enjoying life, but also impede your ability to ...

The Stress Response: How the Brain Works

Stress is our natural response to a situation or event that we perceive as challenging, even threatening. Stress is good insofar as it motivates us to take positive action or prompts us to adapt to a threat. But it can become harmful when we lack the confidence or ability to adapt in a healthy way.

When we lack either the confidence or tools to adapt to stress, we experience symptoms like anxiety, impatience, worry, dread, fear, irritability, anger, depression, and so on.  We become susceptible...

How Resilient are You? Take the Resilience Survey to Find Out

How Resilient Are You?

If you’ve been following me then you know that I’ve been writing about resilience. So today, I’m offering you a resilience survey to do a self-assessment on four dimensions of resilience.  As you do the assessment, you are establishing a baseline for not only thinking about resilience but measuring your growth in the future. Come back to the survey in the future. You can even use it to set goals for yourself in areas you want to improve.

Instructions:

Use a scale of 0 to ...

Predicting Resilience

I define resilience as our ability to handle hard things. It has to do with the thought and behavior patterns that we develop in the face of adversity and hardship. In my article, today, I want to share some general thoughts about the nature of adversity and then explore ways we can predict resilience and even begin developing greater resilience in the face of adversity.

As I’ve said before, we don’t know how resilient we are until tested by stress and hard things. But that doesn’t mean that al...

Teaching Our Children to do Hard Things

Our Children Can Learn to do Hard Things

My last blog was about doing hard things as a key to resilience. Any success requires that we develop the discipline to do hard things rather than procrastinating, avoiding, or taking the path of least resistance. Learning to do hard things not only leads to success but helps us develop inner strength and resilience.

In this blog I want to talk about how to teach our children to do hard things. I’ve heard a consistent message from leaders of youth, such ...

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