The Resolute Woman

Category: goals

  • Are you creative, sensitive and intelligent?

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    Of course, you are! And that’s why you procrastinate, says David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. I was listening to an abridged, audio version of Allen’s book this morning while I was walking my dog Ginger, and I was relieved to learn that I must be creative, sensitive and…

  • Making a decision

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    Making changes is never easy—no matter if you’re trying to eat healthy, stop smoking or begin looking for a new job. The first difficult step, however, is the same for achieving most goals. You have to make a decision. My husband Tom and I recently decided to give up our evening cocktail. We still have…

  • Are you an optimist?

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    Tali Sharot, author of a new book called The Optimism Bias, thinks you probably are an optimist. In a recent article in Time magazine, Sharot points out that 10 percent of Americans expect to live to 100 when , in reality, only .02 percent will live that long. Also, 93 percent of people surveyed believed…

  • Summon memories of your successes

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    Robin Oliveira tells the story of a very resolute midwife who wants to become a doctor in her book My Name is Mary Sutter. Because women weren’t supposed to become doctors during the 1860s, Mary Sutter volunteers to be a nurse during the Civil War. She mops the floors, washes sheets in boiling water in…

  • Sometimes the goal is just to get through it

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    We’ve been thinking about Ranna, Fayteen’s daughter, who is being treated for breast cancer. Ranna has had some complications recently, and she had to spend several days in the hospital. She has had a tough time. That’s why I couldn’t help picking up Shelley Lewis’s book Five Lessons I Didn’t Learn from Breast Cancer (And…

  • Doing small things with love

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    My neighbor Linda has a wonderful success story. She started mentoring a boy from a poor family when he was in elementary school, continued to help him when he was in junior high and high school and watched him succeed in college. Primarily because of Linda’s urging, I volunteered to be a mentor at an…

  • Keep trying and trying

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    People are now reading Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help in 39 languages, and they will go to the theaters to see the movie in August. But Stockett, who spoke in Dallas on May 3, 2011, remembers when she was receiving rejection letters from agents. Lots of rejection letters. “If I had given up after 60…

  • Are you conscientious?

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    If you are conscientious, congratulations! One study indicates that conscientiousness could be “the best personality predictor of long life.” Called the Terman Project, the study is the subject of a new book by two professors—Howard S. Friedman at the University of California and Leslie R. Martin at La Sierra University. We read about the book,…

  • Emma makes a good decision

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    I’m proud of my niece Emma, who  is a six-feet-tall basketball star and valedictorian of her high school class. I’m especially proud of a tough decision she just made. Emma, who wants to be a physician, applied to 11 colleges and was accepted by nine—from the University of San Francisco to the University of Connecticut.…

  • Give yourself a pat on the back

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    We often berate ourselves when we don’t do what we think we’re supposed to do. We feel guilty when we overeat or when we argue with a spouse or when we procrastinate on an important project and miss a deadline. In her book Don’t Shoot the Dog, Karen Pryor, a behavioral scientist who believes strongly…