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
111 episodes
The Quiet Majority of Good, A Patriot Day Reflection
25-years ago today, September 11, 2001, we were brought to our knees. Many of you remember because you were there. This episode is a departure from my series that started back in April 2026. I want to share with all of you my reflection on t...
Getting Comfortable Being Seen Again
When we are shattered by loss, devastation, and grief, we can start to fade, diminish, and become smaller, not physically but emotionally. Returning to a life lived in forward direction is not about forgetting or moving past our heartbreak. ...
Every Success Begins With a Choice
Choices .... Moment by moment, day after day, we make choices. Sometimes, the choices are made for us. That's part of life, but by and large, we are the agents of choices. We make choices all the time. That begs the question: "What Choice Wi...
When the Message Changes the Messenger
What if I said, "The Teacher Will Always Be the Student"? If you think about it, teachers are continuous learners. Not only must they stay current with their craft, but they must understand the time changes the students and the teachers. Alt...
The Power of Daily Habits
Here's a quote for you, "Extraordinary lives are rarely built through extraordinary moments. They are built through ordinary choices repeated with extraordinary consistency." It's not about the seemingly BIG CHOICES that we make, but the per...
The Quiet Strength of Consistency
Here's a quote for you: "Extraordinary lives are rarely built on extraordinary moments. More often, they're built on ordinary moments repeated with extraordinary consistency." I don't know who penned that quote, but I can personally testify ...
The Power of Becoming
You were never created to remain who you were yesterday. Life's greatest adventure is BECOMING who you were always meant to be. You've heard the phrase, "Change is inevitable." It's a true statement, but change almost always begins on the ou...
The Courage to Begin Again
Our lives do not have to lose meaning after personal devastation. Yes, it's true that "Living Forward" after such times as these may seem meaningless and hopeless, but I have learned that living is a choice. Making the choice to LIVE FORWARD...
The Power of One More Step
Have you ever noticed that our lives rarely change all at once? Yes, there are occasional life-altering events that occur such as death, accidents, loss of a job, and others, but usuually life is built around the accumulation of small, indiv...
The Person in the Mirror: Becoming Someone You Respect
Our "Character" is built one choice at a time. We are not born with a specific type of character. Our personal character is learned, and as we learn, we make more and more choices about that character. This brings us back to the beginning qu...
The Story You Keep Telling Yourself
What is SELF-TALK? Simply put, self-talk is what we say to ourselves about ourselves. If we speak unkindly or harshly about ourselves we have a "Negative" self-talk. This kind of personal, inner conversation creates and fosters limiting beli...
Who Am I Now? Rebuilding Your Identity After Life Changes Everything
The one person that gave your life meaning and purpose is gone. Where do I go from here? That's the expected question of the brokenhearted, but maybe the more important questions is, "WHO AM I NOW?" I've said it before and I will continue to...
Unexpected Setbacks: When Old Wounds Reopen
What if I thought that I was healing, but suddenly I'm hurting again. I am learning that when I hurt again, it does NOT mean that my healing has failed or even had a setback or relapse. In our journey of grief, the healing process is not a s...
Why Waiting Keeps You Stuck
Presence communicates things that words cannot. A text can convey information. An email can convey an idea, but eye-contact, a compassionate voice, a shared silence, even a hand on a shoulder, can communicate humanity. If you are waiting for...
Small Decisions That Rebuild a Life
I've often said that living forward is not random. It does not happen by accident. LIVING FORWARD IS A CHOICE. However, it is also important to understand that living forward is not about big steps or decisions, but about small steps of fait...
You Don't Find Purpose - You Build It
After a personal heartbreak in our lives, we find ourselves not particularly motivated to live forward with a meaningful purpose. Maybe we hope that "some thing" will show up and gives us new motivation to live with purpose. Usually, that's ...
The Lie of Moving On
They said to me, after my wife died and I was alone with my heartbreak, "It's time to move on." Sounds cruel. It wasn't meant to be cruel, but it felt that way. Grieving isn't something we "move on" from. If it's real grief, you can't moved ...
Living Forward is a Choice
The experience of devastating loss is not something we asked for. Heartbreak, failure, sorrow, disappointment, fear .... we did not ask for these things to shatter our lives. And yet, here we are. Life is asking us two questions: 1) Are we g...
The First Decision That Starts Your Comeback
The practice of living forward, especially after a life-shattering event, is a choice. For the griever, it is about choices lived one step at a time. It's not about a clear path, but clear step of faith. Are we waiting until we have all the ...
When Motivation is Gone .... Now What?
Yes, grief leaves us sapped of our stength, lost in hopelessness, and being unable to do even the most mundane of things. The motivation has seemingly left us. I todays episode we look to a "Choice" of intentional discipline. It's not about ...
The Hidden Fatique of Grief & Why We're Tired All the Time
As I have traveled my journey of loss, sorrow, grief, and finding a way to somehow LIVE FORWARD, I have finally begun to realize why I am so tired and so often unmotivated. Sometimes the smallest of chores seems like a ton of bricks have bee...
Why People Say the Wrong Things (And How to Handle It Without Losing Yourself
I only realized how disruptive words can be in our times of grief after I had my devastating grief experience in June 2019. It's not that I had never experienced grief, but that I had never know utter loss and brutal anguish to this degree. ...
The Silence Nobody Warned You About
The first handful of days after a devastating personal loss are strangely chaotic, even frantic. Decisions you don't care to make and a schedule that is less about purpose and more of a destraction. Then, suddenly, it all comes to a complete...
The Day Life Changed Forever
If you've already experienced a loss so deep that it has changed how you see everything, then you already know what I will be talking about. But for those of you who haven't experienced great grief or simply don't understand, I want to help ...
Living Forward is Hard Work
You heard right! Living forward almost always is very hard work. The experiences of life can leave us badly damaged, not just physically and materially, but emotionally. Those of you who follow my podcast know my story. As much as life has t...