Resilience is a skill we can tap to bounce back from the pressures and setbacks of our lives.  Whether it’s something small like losing a ball game, or a major struggle like a life threatening illness, resilience is the ability to effectively cope with adversity.

Recent studies in neuroscience have discovered that resilience is not something we are born with or a part of our genetic makeup. Resilience can be learned and a tool we can develop to use in the pursuit of wellbeing.

Here are some tips to create, sharpen and use the resilience...

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Children of all ages benefit from being physically active. Too often, as we get older, we find reasons not to engage in exercise or sports. Lack of time, fear of injury, or the stress of the day to day demands, often reduce our motivation and ambition to exercise. Taking the time, even if it is brief, to be physically active yields results beyond sore muscles. Be active: both your muscles and your mind will thank you.

May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month

Get outside. Be Active. Spread the word regarding the importance of physical activity.

https://healthfinder.gov/nho/MayToolkit.aspx

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“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light, You’ll never know how much your caring matters.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

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The hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adulting” is not easy. Everyday there has to be a conscious effort to bring more balance into our work and life.  Coloring is an activity that can have...

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

― Mark Twain

Wrapped up in our ever increasingly hectic schedules we find it more and more difficult to pay attention to the ones we are closest too.  We get up at six a.m., rush to get the kids up, get some food on the table, rush to get them off to school. Somewhere in there we get dressed, maybe eat something ourselves and get in the car for an hour long commute. We work all day, maybe we make a phone call to our significant other to touch base, maybe we get a text from our teenager checking in.

We get back in the car to run errand, drop the kids off at a soccer match, run several more errands, and shortly afterwards bring them to the tutor. We rush home to eat dinner while one kid is on their phone and the other is playing video games.  Your significant other walks in mid-dinner, goes upstairs and gets on the computer to continue...

We do not need magic to transform the world.  We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.  We have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling

The 2018 Tax Reform. What should you know?

Surprise, it's Tax Day! So by now, you have more than likely filed your taxes. However, if you follow the news (which, let's admit, has become somewhat unavoidable for most of us with the presence of social media) you probably know that people appear to be significantly more stagnant this year, than they have in years prior, with filing their taxes. Now, no one really knows what is causing for this strange delay, but it may be possible that it's attributed to the 2018 Tax Reform that recently passed. Once again, you have probably heard about this reform, given the voice that the media now has in circulating news.

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If you can dream it, you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

― Zig Ziglar