Every person is resilient in a unique way. Ask not if I am resilient; ask, how am I resilient?
Spring paints the landscape green but also invites creepy crawly creatures. One person who is phenomenally busy in every town during the spring is the bug man. A bug man is your lifesaver if you don’t particularly admire wasps, spiders, and fire ants. The bug man is very comfortable with the bugs. But when it comes to medical stuff, he isn’t as savvy.
When I was a child, looking back, my challenges were small. Learning to brush my teeth, dress up, read, memorize ABCs, was not too difficult. My effort almost always led to the desired outcome. As a result, here is a simple formula I wrote up in my head: Effort + Intentions = Outcomes.
Your heart first serves blood to itself, to serve the body. Be kind to yourself to be kind to others.
The human heart beats about 100,000 times a day, pumping 2000 gallons of blood. Before sending the blood to the body, the heart keeps 5% of the blood flow for itself, or about 100 gallons a day. If the heart didn’t do that, it wouldn’t be able to serve the body.