By Carol Grannick on September 14, 2010
My favorite part of the Rosh Hashanah service, which I find in my synagogue’s Harlow Machzor each year, are these paragraphs of not only Jewish, but universal significance:
Every person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique…Every man’s foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It, Lessons From Life | Tagged Rabbi Susya, resilience
By Carol Grannick on September 8, 2010
I’m more comfortable being left than leaving. I discovered (or probably re-discovered) that the other morning as I said goodbye to family and friends in New York. The feeling surprised me. But naming and accepting it was a comfort.
The last time I recall feeling this way, I was leaving New York as a young adult. [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It, Lessons From Life | Tagged explanatory style, resilience
By Carol Grannick on July 20, 2010
Journey: a noun and a verb. A process and an activity.
There are plenty of events in the world that cause heartfelt, even essential, sadnesses. Events of the cycle of life. Events of the world. We would not be fully human if we thought or acted as if these negative emotions were bad or inappropriate.
But the [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged Disputing Negative Thoughts, learned optimism, resilience
By Carol Grannick on January 29, 2010
I noticed yesterday morning, recycling and garbage day in my neighborhood, that we had about one-third of our usual toss.
And because the idea of a post on The Irrepressible Writer came to mind, I trusted that what I’d noticed about our effort to decrease our garbage must have something to do with positivity and the [...]
Posted in Lessons From Life | Tagged resilience
By Carol Grannick on November 19, 2009
I like things simple and clear. Years ago, I went to a workshop about giving workshops. One thing in particular stayed with me. The presenter believed that a ”lesson” should never have more than three main points.
I really liked that, maybe because it’s true, and maybe because my own brain likes and remembers three things easily…No coincidence [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged resilience, resilient writer
By Carol Grannick on November 5, 2009
You’re a writer – committed, consistent, hard-working. But when you hit a bump – a rejection comes; writer’s block stares you down; your critique group offers too many suggestions and you feel overwhelmed; you get a bad review; miss an opportunity or face seemingly endless periods of waiting, waiting and more waiting – you begin [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged negative self-talk, resilience
