It’s in the American DNA to romanticize the “rugged individualism” of the frontier cowboy, or the self-made millionaire. Yet, when history is accounted for and research is taken into account, the ability to achieve and be successful is really a social and connected affair. A resilient mindset depends on being connected with other people. For […]
There are many tough, challenging times in life, but the critical component in all of them is choosing how we are going to respond. In the silly movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story there is an exchange in a bar between Peter La Fleur the star player and Lance Armstrong the seven time Tour de […]
Stress in Crunch Time is the uneasy, often unhealthy agitation and energy that accompanies any change. We are prone to be reactive than proactive to its presence. We then respond with three knee jerk reactions: Retrench We retrench as a strategy to win a war. In reality it leads to our slaughter. We learned from […]