“The turning point in anybody’s life is when you come to that fork in the road where you have to decide whether to risk your life or to lose your conscience. One road leads up, one down”.

Sometimes we need to climb an actual hill, pull ourselves up, or work together to shoulder a heavy load to know that these traits are a part of us.

“Life can make a selfish, skew our priorities, towards work, wealth, and image. Our character, the qualities that make us most human, most able to fit well into society, can be diminished by the trappings of modernity”.

This is the Resilience podcast Sunday Affirmation and Visualization practice where we AFFIRM, REFLECT and LOOK AHEAD to the coming week.

Maybe it’s time to write that letter that you’ve held onto for days, months, even years, because the pain was simply too great, and the wound never healed. It can be a difficult and painful process, but maybe that’s what time it is for you.

Humility is a huge part of the equation. It is one of the cornerstones of the process. The only way we can get better is by acknowledging our limitations and owning it.

When a habit has become so ingrained, that actions begin to flow from you without conscious thought, or effort, then you have changed your character.

The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other. Let the others slap each other on the back while you’re back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.

You assemble your rifle with a blindfold on, you workout with a weighted vest on. You do it 1000 times, and then 1000 times more while there is no pressure so that when there is, you’ll know exactly what to do.

Old wounds, that don’t get treated, aren’t really old, they remain fresh. They are still open sores that eat away at your friendship, relationship, or your marriage from the inside, without you even knowing it.