Gaining Resilience

This is the second in a series on under-considered keys to success and contentment. The previous one focused on titration: consciously adjusting your level of intensity, effort, and intellectuality depending on the person you’re interacting with.

Today, I turn to resilience. Everyone has setbacks, whether a firing, divorce, unfair accusation, negligent parent, whatever. And everyone tries to bounce back—learn from it and take baby steps forward. But some people are more resilient an others. What is it about them? I offer tactics they use in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

How to be Resilient

We all know that even successful people fail but that they're more likely to rebound quickly.

How do they get unstuck? And more important, how can you do it?  It may help you answer the eight-question self-assessment that is my PsychologyToday.com post today.

When Both Your Parents are Gone: What’s your parents’ greatest legacy?

My mom died recently, my dad years earlier.

When our second parent dies, it reminds us that we’re getting toward the end of life’s conveyer belt. It also calls for me to look at their legacy not just for me but perhaps for you, my dear readers.

My article in PsychologyToday.com today may help you identify what your parents' greatest contribution was or is.  HERE is the link.