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“You Can Do This Hard Thing”: The Odd Road to Tougher
A firefighter told me yesterday that when he started working with me on his resilience he was excited because he thought that he was...
Dec 21, 20162 min read
Luminations — Being flame…
luminations noun, plural. 1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity. See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, work, love,...
Dec 8, 20151 min read
Luminations — Loosening A Grip on Overwhelm
luminations noun, plural. 1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity. See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, love, home. 2....
Dec 1, 20151 min read


Resilience Myth #3: The Awesome Work Ethic
In the last post, we looked at the resilience Myth #2: “I’ll evade burnout with careful time management.” So stop and think for a moment...
Jan 22, 20152 min read


Staying Resilient in 2015: The Biggest Myths — Myth #2
To give you one more idea around this one, Robert Grudin, who is one of my favorite thinkers, wrote in his book on time, “On this subject...
Jan 5, 20152 min read


Averting Burnout This Year: The 4 Biggest Myths — #1
For a time, I crashed down into a full-on burnout once every ten years: three times in three ways — once through tragedy, once as a...
Dec 30, 20141 min read
Burnout is an open door.
Sometimes I feel I must be an alien, because I really, really love to talk about death, and about burnout. But this is really why. When I...
Feb 18, 20141 min read
Resilience is Power. And Peace.
“I just wanted myself back, and then to create something more. After what I’ve been through, I am not going to settle for an average...
Feb 6, 20143 min read
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