I’ve often shared ideas about energy management, which is a much more powerful concept than is time management. Time can’t be controlled and even worse, time typically dictates to us what we can get done. After all, there are only 24 hours, 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds in each day and that is not going to change regardless of how we try to “manage” them. Instead, we want to think about how we use our personal energy as that is...

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 aspire to be the best athlete we possibly can be and how can our resilience help us achieve that objective? This past weekend I played...

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 the white board building some artistic skills. It’s a full STEAM session! Recently they worked on planning and organizing as Kyra wanted to make sure...

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 told me his head was about to explode (not literally) when he received yet another “change order” from his manager which, it seemed to him,...