The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • Advice from Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    “Many people die with their music still in them,” Oliver Wendell Holmes once said. “Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” That’s good advice for starting a new project—even though it’s summer, even though it’s not the traditional time…

  • What is integrity?

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    Recently I had a discussion about integrity with some friends. According to the dictionary, integrity means “adherence to principles.” If you have integrity, you are good, honest and trustworthy. My friends and I decided that sometimes you have integrity when you stick to your principles and don’t change how you think. However, sometimes, too, you…

  • Splendid arrogance

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    “Sophia” is the Greek word for wisdom. Sophia also is a prominent figure in the Bible in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, stress Susan Cady, Marian Ronan and Hal Taussig in their interesting book Sophia—The Future of Feminist Spirituality. Sophia, these authors conclude, drives “us to action on behalf of others….May she…

  • Advocate change

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    Change is opportunity when it involves doing different things or doing things differently, says Mitch Joel in his new book Ctrl Alt Delete. The important word is doing. I like the idea. I sometimes get so overwhelmed thinking about change that I don’t do something about changing. I also love the title. I wish I…

  • Who’s neurotic about food?

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    I just read Lionel Shriver’s book Big Brother, the story of a sister who helps her obese brother lose weight. I also heard Shriver explain in an interview that she thinks all of us are neurotic about food. I have been thinking more about food recently—ever since my doctor told me that I am pre-diabetic…

  • Concentrate on your strengths

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    Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of a new book The Autistic Brain—Thinking Across the Spectrum, is autistic. Of course, she isn’t the typical autistic person. That’s one point she makes in her book. There is no typical autistic person. Some people on the autistic spectrum are nonverbal,…

  • Visualize the positive

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    About 77 percent of the average person’s self-talk is negative, says David Allen, author of Getting Things Done. I heard Allen recently in an interview on National Public Radio. “If you can visualize a horrible outcome, you can visualize a positive outcome, too,” Allen suggests. The next time you have to give a speech in…

  • A major accomplishment

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    I just completed an entire month without consuming a single soft drink. Some people might consider such a feat to be only a minor accomplishment. But, for me, it was a major accomplishment. Even though I’ve been going to Weight Watchers meetings for almost a decade and I weigh a couple of pounds under my…

  • The conventions of the time

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    Near the paintings by Georgia O’Keefe in the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, I found “Chinatown, 1912” by Stuart Davis. In the painting, a slim woman dressed in a long, black dress with a high collar and sleeves that cover her arms is walking down a street filled with tall buildings. Davis “depicts the…

  • I could lie to you

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    I found this quote in the March 25, 2013, issue of Adweek, which had reprinted it from The Guardian. “I could lie to you if you want and say we are interested in their brains as well. We are not. They are objectified,” said Esquire U.K. editor Alex Bilmer when he commented on the magazine’s…