We are products, not prisoners……..

“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”  – Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life     Our past is a great teacher for a better future. For example, I wouldn’t know how to balance a checkbook, had I not bounced a few...

Does life get better with age?

“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are...

Challenge Your Beliefs

If I told you that you have the ability to accomplish whatever you want in life. Would you believe me? “Whether you think you can or can’t, you are right”. – Henry Ford When I was in high school I started “jogging” with the ultimate goal of being able to do my dad’s...
When Goals Go “Rogue”

When Goals Go “Rogue”

Setting “big goals” seems to be an admirable quality these days.  Whether it is in life or in neuro rehab, stating you have “big goals” seems to tell the world you are “ambitious”. I know you have a goal in mind. That skill,...
Beat the odds by starting

Beat the odds by starting

Everyone has the ability to be “the one” who beats the odds. And in fact, I see those people on a weekly basis.  I will call these people the “outliers”.  Yes, defying the odds. Week after week.  What is their secret? They start……...
The Courage To Continue….

The Courage To Continue….

A neurologic injury can have a dramatic impact on every aspect of life. Some lose the ability to speak, walk, hear, see, bath, groom, write, type, eat, and the list goes on.  Yeah, a real “pickle”.  So, the logical conclusion would be that someone in such a situation...