The Energizer Blog

Imagine watching a different graduation ceremony that has none of your kids in it and you still laughed and cried. 

I believe that this simple resilience practice can turn dark into grey and eventually into white light, even from the hospital bed.

Death is the one CERTAINTY we all will face. With Mollie’s permission, I share with you her insights into coping with sudden tragedy.

My exploration into the world of resilience started with 9/11.   Here are my lessons: 

Laughter Lifts the Load In tough times, humor is an essential survival skill. Talk can also be funny. Not the sarcastic biting humor of...

Try to travel, otherwise you may become racist, and you may end up believing that your skin is the only one to be right...

Ahhh, the music of Rogers and Hammerstein in the production Carousel. I love that song. In fact, any music by those two notable composers...

Really, what has happened to Personal Responsibility?

Sadly, I’m concerned that empathy might be dying.

Bottom line: Exhaustion runs the gamut. It’s the lessons we take from it that matter.

It starts by becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable, stepping into the unknown, and taking a risk.  It means saying ‘Why not me?”

Have you ever watched the rain pour down and wondered what lessons it might teach us?

Listening to the violent rhetoric, the hate speech, and the cowardice of elected officials, I imagine Washington and Lincoln...

He said I have been a force of good in his life for so long. He thanked me for being me, for what I stand for...

This takes patience.  I’ve watched the man who works to build rock art on many occasions. He spends hours getting the rocks to balance. 

It’s time to plug into something that YOU choose—something that can renew your batteries and refresh your interest in work AND life.

I will greet each morning with “I am part of a community of caring”. I intend to close off each day with a list of who I touched...

For the last week or so leading up to November, the Moon was amazing: huge, brilliant, and owned the sky.

Leading from the Heart helps everyone, especially these soggy racers that I passed by the other day along the Pacific Coast Highway

Regardless of where you turn, the hate speech and horrid news is overwhelming! And then—random kindness appeared.