Robert Evans Wilson Jr.

Sixteen years ago I hit a crisis in my life. I experienced a loss that sent me into a deep depression. Never before in my entire life had I felt so bad. In many ways it was a good thing […]

Finding your courage is extremely liberating. Source: Cottonbro / Pexels In this space I have encouraged people to be more bold; I have advised people to stand up for themselves (especially with bullies), and I’ve suggested that people take risks.

Negative news depletes motivation Source: Mohamed Hassan / Pixabay The Covid years did it to me. They sucked the motivation right out of me. The lockdown — not being able to leave the house; no speaking engagements because no one

Use creative thinking to find the silver lining. Source: Skitterphoto / Pexels I’ve suffered several losses throughout my life which have motivated me to look for silver linings. I’ve done it so often now it has become a habit. In

Source: Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. I was excited when my son became old enough to join Cub Scouts because I had enjoyed my scouting experience so much. I signed him up with the pack affiliated with our church and his

Source: Azmi Talib/Pixabay When I tell people I’m introverted, they don’t believe me. They’ve seen me comfortably giving speeches to hundreds or thousands of people at a time, or they’ve seen me as the frontman leading large groups of people

Source: Hans Holbein/Wikimedia Commons Last month, in my post Self-Confidence Vs. Self-Esteem, I wrote that I searched for the source of my introversion by mentally backtracking my childhood history. I noted that I was bullied in elementary school by older

Source: Photo by Nadezhda Moryak/Pexels My life began as a lie. Perhaps my parents thought of it as an innocent lie and that no one could be hurt by it. Maybe my father considered it a white lie which he

Source: Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay I’ve written in this blog about being afraid of going to school because I was bullied by older boys. By fourth grade, however, the bullying subsided; probably because I’d learned how to avoid the

We turned down a mysterious road and actually found… a mystery! Source: Manfred Antranias Zimmer / Pixabay Recently a friend of mine commented, after hearing one of my stories, “So many weird things have happened to you that you should