“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” — Elizabeth Edwards

Aug 17, 2025

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Your Mindset Matters. I’m honored you’re here.

Whether you’re sipping coffee in silence or catching this between meetings, this space is for you—a place to reflect, reset, and rise.

I created this newsletter to help high-achieving professionals like you reconnect with what truly matters.

Each week, I share insights on mindset and personal development—not just to help you perform better, but to help you feel better.

My goal is to guide you from success to significance, with emotional depth, practical tools, and creative inspiration.

You’ve built the life.

The accolades, the business, the reputation.

From the outside, it looks like you’ve arrived.

But inside?

There are days it feels like you’re balancing on stilts—tall, impressive, but wobbly.

One unexpected gust, and everything could tip.

This newsletter marks a new season.

Not just paid—but personal.

This summer, we go deeper. Into the quiet truths. Into the emotional architecture that holds you up when the winds come.

“Success is the wind. Resilience is the root.”

You’ve been told resilience is about bouncing back.

But what if it’s about bouncing forward?

What if every setback is a sacred invitation to reclaim your power, your peace, your perspective?

“You’re not at the mercy of circumstance. You shape your response.”

• Ask: “What is this teaching me?”

• Say: “I adapt. I overcome. I grow.”

This is the internal locus of control—where resilience begins.

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