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Emotional Resilience During the Toughest of Times
My mother described me to others as being a “sensitive” girl as I was growing up. I allowed my feelings to be hurt (this is a re-frame of decades of believing it was others who were to blame for intentionally hurting my feelings) and as a result I was often unhappy or melancholy, or at least quite pensive. When I began to take full responsibility for everything that occurred in my life at age 50 I found that I had developed an emotional resilience to the degree that my life unfolded in a way that could now serve me, and that it was retroactive to 1955, the year of my birth.
But the world can be cold and cruel at times and I have since discovered that it is entirely up to me to feel like every day is a joyous gift from God that can be morphed into thoughts, beliefs, actions, and results of my choosing. Warren Buffet says that we must never make a permanent life decision based on temporary feelings and that this precept is the secret to success. In effect, emotional resilience is the key to our success.
On October 8th, 1992 I sat on the edge of my bed at North Shore Hospital in Miami, Florida and wondered if I was near the end of my life. It was a Thursday morning and I could hear the scrub jays squawking in the gumbo limbo trees in the grassy area not far outside my window. I yearned for the freedom they had as they went about each…
