The Human Resolve ®

"That's probably one of the biggest things of the leadership trait, to be self-aware. To know your own strengths and your own weaknesses. But the idea of knowing what triggers you when you're in a stressful environment.  To understand what those triggers were and how do you then cope with that?  And then the last one that kind of relates to relationships and that is staying connected."  - Mike LeFever, CEO of Concentric and Retired...

"You can be naturally courageous and not the most resilient and vice versa...you have one foot grounded and the other foot can move in any position at any time, which I think is so beautiful because we have these roots and these parts of us that are always going to be there, but we can choose what direction we want our life to go in.  And like I said, it makes it a little bit more fun and less scary when you see it as pivoting and ...

"I think it's really easy to be grateful when things are working.  And it's another thing when things aren't working for you to still be in that state of gratitude.  And I did mention the part about our brains having this negativity bias, and it's because we're wired for survival and so when things aren't working, we're going to keep looking for problems.  Whereas when we're in a state of gratitude and focusing on opportunity and s...

"A lot of people don't practice resilience when things are going well. Because it's not until things go bad, because our definition of resilience is the ability to bounce back, but the definition of resilience in HeartMath terms is to prepare for, react to, and shift in the face of stress.  And so how do you prepare for anything? You practice it on a daily basis.  You don't wait until you get sick."  - Andrea Trank, Health Coach, T...

"I still have issues with abandonment as an adult and as a kid, I turned to my education because I figured, well, maybe if I was smart enough, my mom would love me more than she loved drugs. And I think that it helped me because it helped me become a physician because I turned into essentially, an academic student. And as far as that big aha moment to where I realized, well, maybe it's not them. Maybe it's me."  - Dr. Tiffanie Tate...

"If you know you have your support...someone who knows the intimate details of your life and you know there's no ulterior motives and that they're a 100% on your side, then it frees up so much of your mental energy to focus on accomplishing your objectives. And I think if you're lining up your support early on, it really puts you ahead of the pack."  - Nick Prefontaine, Keynote Speaker, Author, and CEO of Common Goal

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"I would get in those sessions with people and then I would focus in, focus on them, and I just felt transported.  So that's when I began to know, boy there's really something about taking what's happening with you and rather than just sort of collapsing.  So, I think both gratitude and giving to others are some of the best ways that you can really heal and also feel that sense of resilience within."  - Cheryl Krauter, Psychotherap...

"It was this mindset that you should be able to kind of go out into the world and try a bunch of different things.  But once you find something really that you truly love...focus 100% of your attention onto that. Because I think if you want to excel in any industry, it's an uphill battle and it's a climb.  And grit I think is something that is probably one of the most important things."  - Siwat Siengsanaoh, Entrepreneur and Co-fou...

"You have to own your own story to be resilient.  I've had Tourette tics since I was nine.  I'm 61, so I've been ticing for 52 years.  I got picked on a lot. I got bullied a lot.  I still am a pretty big introvert to these days, but as life goes on and you try to integrate into a ticing person into a non-ticing world."  - Jerry Gidner, Director of the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration and Board Member of Tics and Tourette Across...

"What the research shows is that people who act as though they're self-disciplined actually have found a good strategy.  That's more important than any personal strength.  Psychologists have been able to teach children who didn't show self-discipline, who didn't show an ability to delay gratification have been able to teach them strategies that allowed them to do that and then they acquire that knowledge. Oh yeah, I can do that. Oh...

"I love standing up for people. I love protecting people. And so having that dream at such a young age and now having accomplished that is something that is so amazing. Because when we are children, we're fearless.  There were so many other things throughout my life and even as a child that I did want to do that I didn't have the opportunity to do until later in life because I listened to other people. But that one thing, I was lik...

"Being in music it's very cutthroat. And so what I did was essentially focus on my own path.  And I think part of that growing in sort of leaving bad energy behind was actually being more comfortable with myself. I think I lacked self confidence through quite a lot of my life and that played out in various ways...it's like I kind of lived my life on everyone else's terms. And now I kind of live life on my terms."  - Viren Chitroda ...

"My family had experienced the results of gang violence. My father was incarcerated at a young age. My grandfather passed away really young. And so I saw the women in my family really developed this strong sense faith and a strong sense of inner power.  My grandmother was in town visiting me and I said to her, Grandma, you've been through so much. How did you get through it all?  And she says, 'I never complained.'"  - Sakina Ibrah...

"So when we're in pain, we have a tendency to focus on ourselves more than is helpful or healthy. When you have something bigger than yourself like I found myself having, it lifted me up out of my own backside so to speak and be able to have a higher perspective on what was actually going on."  - Dar Dixon, Actor, Producer, and Director

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• "It's so critical to be able to laugh at the situation and laugh at yourself"

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"Many people feel in some way feel that they are responsible for their cancer...that there was something that they did — they didn't get diagnosed, they didn't pay attention to their body well enough. There's a lot of internal stuff that goes on...I'm trying to get to the bottom of well why do people feel this way?"  - Cynthia Hayes, Author, Mentor, Speaker, and Cancer Survivor

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• "We have no way of knowing what the over...

"My father...he did the best with what he knew at the time told me to man up at six years old.  What does it even mean to a six year old boy back in 1990?  So I inherited this story of okay, whatever I do, it's never gonna be enough.  So I need to create an event that tells people that I am enough."  - George Kalantzis, Coach, Author, and Content Marketer

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• "Every choice you make, comes with a consequence"

• "Most femal...

"If I just trust my intuition that it will tell me what those boundaries are.  My intuition will always tell me when my boundaries are being violated, and I should listen to it....I know what it is. Even though I am telling you now that I don't know what it is.  I always know when it happens, but I try to deny it."  - Tina Marie Romero, Business Owner and Breast Cancer Survivor

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• "It was difficult for me to understand t...

"Usually people are like, oh my God, I treat myself so differently.  So with self-compassion we are treating ourselves like a good friend. So there's three elements to self-compassion.  The first is being kind, rather than judgmental. The next piece is common humanity. Understanding that everybody makes mistakes. We all fail. The third piece is mindfulness. You are aware when you're struggling."  - Dr. Ellen Albertson, Psychologist...

"I wish I heard - I see you, I hear you. You mean so much to me. You're important.  I forgave my parents a long time ago because they did the best they could just like every parent. The first thing I say to a cancer patient that comes and speaks to me that they've been first diagnosed is - forgive your past and heal any resentments that you have."   - Carmelina Baccari, Medical Tattoo Specialist and Breast Cancer Survivor 

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