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February
22, 2008
Leading A Resilient Life
Interview
with Gordon McDonald, author of A
Resilient Life
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Mike
Carruthers:
Do you think of yourself as a resilient person?
Gordon McDonald:
Well, resilience is a word that describes people who have gotten
healthier as life has gone on in every sense of that word.
Gordon McDonald,
author of the book A
Resilient Life…
They generally
are people who somewhere along the line have gone through various
forms of adversity, have not only survived it but thrived in
the middle of it. And then the most important thing is they
become an inspiration for people around them.
There are real
rewards for leading a purposeful, resilient life.
Well, the benefit
of being resilient first of all is that your life is marked
with what C.S. Lewis used to call joy. There's a sense of purposefulness
for every decade of life. One does not end up life bitter and
angry or passive.
Gordon says there
are some basic principles resilient people live by.
The first one
was of course to have a strategic view of life. To be looking
kind of downstream in life, asking"Where are the choices
I'm making today leading me?" Secondly, looking backwards
- the longer I live I have a past. A resilient person is one
who looks into that past and resolves it. Things in the past
that were done wrong are repented for, things that other people
have done to me are forgiven. And the third thing is to acquire
a set of disciplines that brings my present-day life under self-control.
There are very few things that bring more joy to the human soul
than to know that various aspects of my life are under control
and are reaching out to things that they normally would not
have touched if I hadn't made the attempt.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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