Resilient Wednesday Weekly Memo

The Olympics are in our lives for the next 2 weeks and watching these incredible elite competitors reminds me of how many of us dreamed about performing on the athletic field and maybe even saw ourselves at performing at their level. Of course, 99.99% of us never even come close. What if, however, we just […]

For the past year and half, my wife Sheila and our 8-year-old granddaughter Kyra have been Home School Zooming during the pandemic. During their twice weekly sessions, they work on reading, arithmetic, science, and history on screen; they then move to chats where they can work on literature and creative writing, and then finish with

Last week, I shared with you about the Resilience Advantage Approach of Preparation, Navigation and Bounce Back and Forward and shared some ideas about how and why preparing for stress is so important. Let’s take a look today at how we can successfully navigate our stress when it is actually happening One of my clients

We watched the US Women’s Olympic Gymnastic trials the other day and Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast ever, was a little off her game. Of course, she finished #1 in the overall competition, but she missed some moves on the uneven bars and fell off the beam during her routine, which is unheard of for

The American Psychological Association recently released their Stress in America annual survey and not surprisingly their findings revealed that many of us  experienced major challenges to our emotional well-being over the course of the past year. In a set of follow up interviews aired on NPR, several health care and first responders discussed their strategies

In the summer of 2018, a first time US tennis open winner suffered the agony of victory. Twenty-year-old Naomi Osaka handed the greatest woman tennis champion a resounding defeat by beating Serena Williams in 2 sets, 6-2,6-4. But instead of the cheers and accolades afforded a victory, Osaka only heard boos from the crowd. Of

In the mid 1970s my girlfriend insisted that I join her on a 2-week dance retreat in Marin County near San Francisco. “Don’t worry that you are not an “official dancer,” Anna welcomes everyone,” she told me.  Off we went in her orange cab-over-camper Datsun pickup for one of the first real adventures of my

This new phase of returning to normal will bring about significant changes to the workplace. While the changes may be significant, they will actually be a continuation of what we have been doing for the past year. Getting more control of our lives! In a recent study by the Steelcase Corporation of 30,000 people from

In our weekly podcast, The Leadership Café, that I co-host with my good friend and colleague, Michael Couch, we ask our guests the question, “assuming you’ve had no great tragedy from the Pandemic, instead of thinking, what has the Pandemic done to you, how would you respond to the question, what has the Pandemic done