As most of you know, I am currently writing a manuscript for BEP Press on resilience in the workplace. I wanted to update you on its progress and how I am maintaining my own resilience through the process. I’m halfway through my 6-month contract period for writing The Resilience Advantage and more than 65% done in writing the book. I am looking to finish all the writing by September 15 giving me 6-weeks or so for reviews, graphics and whatever...

We’ve talked before about the idea that building resilience is like building a muscle. You have to exercise it and go beyond your comfort zone to attain the kind of strength you want to achieve. Undertaking a 30-day sprint to try out a new behavior can be a great way to build your resilience and overall improvement. Based on the software development technology known as scrum, you can use this same methodology and call yourself a techie for using it....

For many years, I’ve been involved with an improvisational arts community called Interplay that uses the arts of movement, singing and storytelling to advance people’s professional and personal growth. Interplay is an amazing process for improving how we deal with real life challenges in real time and practicing improv forms helps develop key skills for resilience. One of my favorites is the “Yes, and” form where we move away from the “yes, but” negative thinking and instead create a can...

I hope you had a chance to watch the US Women Soccer Player win the World Cup last week. I had a triple interest in that my granddaughter is starting her collegiate soccer career this fall, a buddy of mine’s granddaughter plays on the team (Lori Chalupny) and I’m a sucker for USA sports (USA, USA, USA, USA, USA!) What I found so interesting was how the confidence of the team seemed to strengthen after each game. There was tentativeness...

You are headed out on vacation soon and as you pack up your office work, your “tween” daughter comes over to you and says, “mommy, you are not going to take all that work with you to the beach, are you?” An immediate feeling of sadness and pride pour over you. You feel bad that your daughter has called you out for not taking the full vacation free of work that you know you deserve while you are proud of...

What an amazing country we live in. Just last week our nation’s ability to address the worst of us and the best of us came to the forefront. We were tested and passed with flying colors of red, white and blue. The horrific shootings in Charleston were punctuated not with violence and protests, but with prayers, forgiveness and the singing of Amazing Grace by our President. Then our Supreme Court affirmed the right of all people to marry the person...