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SEVEN WAYS TO GET RID OF A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE

“Where is your mindset after something bad happens to you? The fact is, none of us controls what happens to us in life – but we do control our responses to those circumstances.” – Villanova Basketball Coach Jay Wright Your attitude is a daily choice. It’s a choice to respond to adversity, not surrender to […]

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A RECIPE FOR RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY

It’s hard to get juiced up about pro basketball in the middle of football season and the baseball playoffs, but when the basketball season opened on Wednesday night, October 17, 2017, the Boston Celtics’ new star, Gordon Hayward, broke his leg in a gruesome manner, facing a long rehabilitation, and being out for the season. […]

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FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT – LESSONS LEARNED FROM ADVERSITY 

Franklin Roosevelt was stricken with polio when he was in his late 30’s. He lost the use of his legs overnight, never to regain it. Many people would have resigned themselves to a life of disability. Roosevelt would not. He spent the following years working to strengthen his upper body and figuring out how to […]

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WHEN HARDSHIPS ABOUND

You don’t have to look far to find someone going through a tough time. The stories are all around us. People suffering through persistent, mysterious pain and illness; parents and grandparents worried about their children’s difficulties; folks mourning the loss of loved ones. Hardships abound. When challenges and disappointing circumstances arise, it’s easy to become […]

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