Emotional resilience is the ability to successfully cope with change or misfortune. Even when afraid, resilient people respond to life’s challenges with courage and emotional stamina. While we can’t always control what life brings, we can use adversity as an opportunity for growth. Respond True or False to the following statements to discover how well you cope with life’s many challenges. Set 1: When bad things happen, I think “why me?” I feel fear and self-pity; I want to find someone to blame. When I feel overwhelmed by negative emotions,, I overeat or…
Complete 2012-Create & Design 2013 Process This is a modified version of a process I’ve been doing for several years now. It has made a huge difference in how I “do” my life and my business! If you want to feel complete with the previous year without hanging on to stressful thoughts of what didn’t get done and you want to have new and inspired energy for the new year, do this process. When you take the time to do this, you are putting yourself at the helm of your life. You are taking…
As the author of more than 30 books, including the bestselling series Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, Dr. Richard Carlson helped millions of people create lives of greater peace, connection and caring by focusing on the more important things in life. The last chapter of one of his books is titled “Live This Day As If It Might Be Your Last. It Might Be!” Ironically and sadly, Carlson died unexpectedly at age 45 on a plane flight to New York. How better to drive home his point? We really don’t know how long…
Happy New Year! I love how the change of one day suddenly gives us permission to begin anew, create new goals or just feel “now is the time”. Of course we can always create new goals and beginnings at any time during the year, but somehow when the clock strikes 12 midnight, and it’s a new year, it opens up a whole new slate of opportunities. I find it very freeing and refreshing. With all the excitement of the possibilities that we can create for our new year, it can often be too easy to…