RESOLVE to Live Forward
"RESOLVE to Live Forward" is a podcast that focuses on empowering individuals to overcome challenges and embrace personal growth while moving forward with determination. Through inspiring stories and practical insights, this podcast aims to encourage listeners to navigate life's obstacles with resilience and purpose.
Episodes
79 episodes
There's No Ego In Selfless Service
The best practice of service is done without the expectation of receiving anything in return, and yet it is full of blessings that pay dividends throughtout the course of our lives. There will always be service opportunities that provide rei...
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Season 3
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Episode 13026
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24:03
The Intentional Practice of Engagement
When we experience a tragic loss, living forward becomes one of the most difficult things we can do on a day-by-day basis. That's just the first step in Living Forward. The second step is to get out and engage LIFE & PEOPLE. I felt the n...
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Season 3
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Episode 12626
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30:18
With Resilience, I Respond, not Retreat
By now, you know that my PowerWord is RESOLVE. It is defined as "one who has a definite, firm plan of action." The first letter, "R", is for Resilience. We are in a new year. Having a definite, firm plan of action is not about resolutions. I...
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Season 3
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Episode 11626
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27:33
A Great Year Starts With A Great Attitude
Growth is the only evidence of life, therefore in order to experience positive growth in 2026, we must take charge of our lives and do what helps us grow in every aspect of our life on a day-by-day basis. It doesn't matter whether we use res...
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Season 3
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Episode 1926
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26:38
It's a NEW YEAR. Start it the Right Way
Yes, 2026 has arrived. The more things "seem" to change the more they remain unchanged, but that doesn't have to mean that we stay the same. A New Year is a New Opportunity. Today we talk of things already shared. We also talk of things adde...
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Season 3
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Episode 1226
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27:58
Living Forward is a CHOICE
I have learned that grief and sorrow are not exclusive to the death of a cherished loved one. Throughout our lives we are impacted by grief events that cover a multitude of painful, heartbreaking results. The issue we must confront is findin...
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Season 2
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Episode 25113
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29:17
We Can't Change What Happened, But We Can Change How It Shapes Us
The 5000 foot view of the lives around us reveals a surprising fact. There are 1000's of people who have experienced sorrow, pain, anguish, and more. They are just like us. It's not just about what happens to all of us. It's about what we do...
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Season 2
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Episode 25112
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26:22
There Truly Are Only Two Choices
Random events are as varied as people. Random events are everything from a delightful surprise to a life-changing devastation. At it's most simple level, when a traumatic event plunges us into the depths of sorrow, we have only two choices. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 25111
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32:09
What We Do With Sorrow is a Choice
I recently heard it said that if you don't choose to move forward with your grief and sorrow, that grief and sorrow will make the choice for you. That's my 5000 foot view. Everyone has or will experience deep, heartbreaking sorrow. Today we ...
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Season 2
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Episode 25110
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28:18
There's More to Grief Than Just Death
For me, the longer I live, the more I realize that grief touches so much more than just when someone or something (living) dies. Death takes the form of so many things. I don't want to get you in a sad, dark place, but we all have experience...
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Season 2
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Episode 25109
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28:11
And So It Begins. How Do We Find Our Way Forward?
To begin the process of living forward after a devestating loss is realize that we can't leave the loss behind. You don't move on past it, you move forward with it. However, it's even more important to understand that grief is so much more t...
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Season 2
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Episode 25108
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28:12
Introduction to Finding a Way Forward
Today we start unpacking the struggle of dealing with the "What Now" question after having suffered a devastating and tragic loss. There are a miriad of problems that bring us to a grinding halt after these losses. Finding the means to live ...
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Season 2
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Episode 25107
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25:53
Instead of Resolutions, Try a PowerWord
As we enter the last two months of 2025, I am reminded of November 2017 when I decided to stop failing at New Years resolutions and found success with a PowerWord for Living. Perhaps this might be the new path to you living forward with succ...
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Season 2
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Episode 25106
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26:05
Understanding RESOLVE and the Enthusiastic Mindset
It's easy to tell you what can work for you. It's an entirely different thing for any of us to actually do it. As we wrap up this deep-dive into the PowerWord "RESOLVE" and the seven personal, behavioral best praactices embodied in the lette...
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Season 2
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Episode 25105
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26:19
Enthusiasm ... Explained
If you look up the definition of "Enthusiasm" you may question how much it plays out in the RESOLVE mindset. Today we'll take a closer look at how we can intentionally practice an enthusiastic mindset on the toughest of days.
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Season 2
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Episode 25104
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23:41
To Be Enthusiastic We Must Understand Enthusiasm First
FINALLY we have arrived at the last letter of RESOLVE, and it's E for ENTHUSIASM. This is a great word in meaning, but a sometimes tough word in practice. We will talk about the enthusiastic mindset and the practice of intentional enthusiasm...
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Season 2
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Episode 25103
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24:42
Cultivate Your Visionary Mindset
The principle of having personal vision is not making a WISH. It's about conceiving a great expectation, surrendering fully to the belief in its possibility, and doing the hard work to achive that visionary goal. Today's episode is about a t...
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Season 2
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Episode 1010
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24:42
Vision Is Seeing - Believing Is Seeing
Vision is not just about our eyes. In this episode, John fleshes out the power in our minds to see a goal so clearly that we set out to do the WORK necessary to make that vision a reality. The key is "THE WORK" of putting that mental vision ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10325
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25:48
We Choose What We Envision
We'll talk today about Visionary Mindset as a choice. There's nothing random abour it. Consider your vision of what could be based on a belief that you can create the best outcomes. TWO CHOICES: Either you see and expect the best or you see ...
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Season 1
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Episode 92525
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23:52
Mindsets that Matter
Before we move forward with the personal best practice of visionary mindsets, I wanted to revisit the concepts of a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. They are not mutually exclusive, nor is one better than the other. Balance is the way to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 91925
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27:15
If We Only Knew Then What We Know Now
We've been talking in previous episodes about Lifelong Learning. Today we examine the learning laboratory that is life. The lessons we learn from our choices can be painful or transformative. Remember the definition of insanity?&nb...
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Season 1
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Episode 91225
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23:08
The LOVE of LEARNING
So much is said about our mental, cognative, and physical health as it relates to lifestyle, diet, exercise, etc, etc ... so-forth-and-so-on. You get it, I am sure. There is a passion that I have that any of you can have, and we don't realiz...
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Season 1
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Episode 90525
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17:45
Why Learning is Life-Giving
In my twilight years, especially after my amazing wife passed away in 2019, I have come to love the experience of learning. It's not just a handful of specialties, but so much of everything. It's 2025, I am 75 years old, and learning is givi...
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Season 1
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Episode 82925
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22:52
"O" Is At The Center of Your Success
It was totally unplanned that the center letter of our PowerWord would be the letter "O". When Donna and I chose RESOLVE as that PowerWord, we had not yet started our "drill down" to find a personal best practice for each letter of RESOLVE. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 82225
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17:56
A Straight-Forward Take on Service
Service is an important word. Service is many things. Service is needed more now than ever. The letter "S" in my power word, RESOLVE, is for service, but not just any kind of service. Are you willing to sacrifice self for service?
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Season 1
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Episode 80825
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20:23