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Have you ever been caught in a rip tide? On the eve of my 30th birthday, I was living the good life on the beach in Southern California. My wife surprised me by inviting a close group of my friends out West…
Life is not a solo act. It’s a collaboration with people who will support us in times of strife–William Butler Yeats My good friend’s son is going through the college football recruiting process. He is a big, athletic player…
In the 1982 film, “An Officer and a Gentleman”, Richard Gere plays Zach Mayo, a Navy brat with a dysfunctional past. Zach tries to make something of his life by enlisting in the grueling, 13-week Navy Aviation Officer Training School. It is his…
Courage is the foremost of all virtues. –Winston Churchill Is there anything better than the family beach vacation? Sun. Sand. Surf. Spike Ball. Extended Happy Hours. All our minor troubles seem to melt away in the salt air and suntan lotion. But for my…
“When you don’t know what tomorrow brings, it makes it so much easier to enjoy today!”
Lila “Bean” Giroux has been battling pediatric brain cancer for the past 8 years. The battle of the entire Giroux Family can tell us a lot about resilience, perspective, and appreciation in our own lives.
On April 24, 1910, exactly 107 years ago today, President Theodore Roosevelt delivered one of his most powerful speeches and set the tone for resiliency in all of us. President Roosevelt was speaking to a large crowd at the Sorbonne in Paris. …
Tim “T.” Strachan had a simple but powerful dream. Ever since he was 5 years old, he wanted to play college football. This was not a whimsical fantasy. He was passionate about his goal. He was dedicated to the cause. And he…
Good ol’ Merriam-Webster defines the word routine as “a habitual or mechanical performance of an established procedure”. Doesn’t exactly channel inspiration and creativity, does it? Oftentimes, we associate routine with boredom, drudgery, and dullness. Routines lack charisma. Routines fail to motivate. …
There is a saying in poker (at least in our poker group) that has special meaning for the Resilient Worker: “The Big Cat Walks Late”. What exactly does this mean? There will be times, early in the night, when fortune may not be smiling upon…
If you scroll through enough motivational material (guilty!), you are bound to come across the story of the Struggling Butterfly. As legend has it, a man walked out of his house one day and spied a huge cocoon in the bushes…