Name your feelings
Ever receive an email that rubbed you the wrong way? Maybe the tone seemed dismissive or unnecessarily critical. You feel a flash of anger and start...
Make friends with your nervous system
This weekend, I was lying in bed thinking about a potential consulting project that I'm both excited and a little anxious about. It would be one of the...
The micro-pause
This past Saturday evening, Linda and I were getting ready to go out, and I couldn't find my glasses. Again. I was rushing around the house, checking the...
We can do hard things
Like most of us, I’ve had plenty of hard things to deal with over the years. Some I handled well. Some I didn’t. I have a rich collection of my own heroic...
Start where you are
A quick note before we begin: I first shared Start where you are back in February, before Weekly Resilience Tips had really gotten underway. Many of you...
Not every uncomfortable feeling is a problem
This morning I caught myself impatiently rushing around the kitchen, decluttering, making coffee, putting away dishes, already feeling frazzled and...
Don't be surprised by the surprise
My father-in-law used to say, “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” And I can think of more than a few times when I was the one...