How do you engage or energize your resilience, your internal
strength to remain strong and true to yourself throughout each day? Start in your head and immediately you start
thinking priorities, to-do lists, and pretty soon you are ruminating about all
the things that have gone wrong. Start in
your heart and you are driven by what’s important in life: life passion,
purpose, joy, your beliefs and values, and life lessons from past
experiences. Life lessons are heart
saved experiences that define who we will become.
In graduate school, I worked the odd shifts in the emergency
room at Flow Hospital, Denton, Texas. I
remember one of my first shifts as we waited for ambulances returning from a bad
accident with serious injuries. As the
doors swung open, and the gurneys rushed in, for just an instant, I flashed
back to my first Army medevac ride, with the screams, chaos, and blood. After that medevac ride, I swore I’d never ride
in a medevac again, but I did, again and again – and then I was back in Denton
and I was ready, for the Army taught me I was good under fire, good when chaos
ruled. What have you learned through
your heart saved experiences that are defining who you are becoming?
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