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
104 episodes
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...
Can We "Will" Ourselves to Be Enthusiastic?
I will start by saying that it took longer than I intended to get this podcast published, and for that, I am sorry. I am a "Boomer" by birth, retired from the world of 9 to 5, and am easily identified as "ELDERLY." However, I'm not helpless ...
Enthusiasm Is A Choice You Must Make
Are you having a GREAT DAY! Perhaps not. Growing up I once thought enthusiasm was something that happened in response to exciting news, people, places, things, etc. Although we can be stimulated into feeling enthusiastic, life has a way of d...
Vision Creates Todays Destination
Interesting concept. "Vision gives today a destination." I remember reading the book, "How to Live In The Now". The author spoke of the power of focused living in the moment. It's the classic message of yesterday is history, tomorrow is a my...
A Visionary Mindset is Transformative
Your personal visionary mindset give each day a "Destination." Let that soak in. Please don't confuse your visionary mindset with your EGO. Selfish thinking and living are not Forward Living best practices. A visionary mindset is at the hear...
Learning and Finding Life through Learning
I once heard it said, "The day you stop learning is the day you start dying." Why do we learn? What's in it for us? Why does it matter? I've asked all these, and more, questions. I love to learn. I need to learn. I LIVE TO LEARN.
Organization Makes Us More Successful
The definition of RESOLVE is, "... one having a definite, firm plan of action." The middle letter in RESOLVE is the "O". It stands for organization. The traits of good organization touch all facets of our day-to-day lives. Some find this hab...
Watching & Listening is Selfless Service
So much anger in our world today. Everyone is screaming to be heard, but they're not willing to listen to differing viewpoints. This is NOT NEW. Throughout the recorded history of mankind, there have always been conflicts that erupted becaus...