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
97 episodes
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...