Strengthening Our Core for Wild Times

How many New Year’s resolutions revolve around strengthening core muscles? It’s a goal I fully support. Physical core strength is essential for stability, health, and resilience.

This year, I also encourage expanding the definition of core.

While we cannot predict every challenge the year may bring, we can prepare ourselves to move through uncertainty with greater balance and strength. How? By intentionally strengthening our emotional core.

Just as organizations anchor themselves in purpose and values to navigate disruption, we can do the same as individuals. Reconnecting with what matters most - our personal purpose, our deepest values - creates a center that holds steady, no matter what spins around us.

Through decades of change and “holy cow” moments, I’ve learned that this kind of grounding doesn’t just help us endure - it helps us adapt, grow, and connect. When we align with others who share similar values, we build collective resilience that moves us all forward.

Let’s commit to core strength in every sense. Let’s exercise our emotional core with as much intention as our physical one. By clarifying what centers us and investing in meaningful connections, we build our capacity for well-being, adaptability, and calm, wherever the journey takes us.

Here’s to a year of strength, stability, and purpose. 

Think Big, Start Small, Act Now, 

- Lorne 

Garrett’s View: I’m leaning towards eliminating as many declarations of renewal as possible. I’ve never criticized people with the means for being full blown preppers, and I’ve never fully believed anyone who said they’d “start on Monday.” The balance for calm is to just do what we can, right now, and keep our self-control equal to all emergencies.  

- Garrett 
AI Response: In fact, expanding your emotional core is scientifically linked to greater resilience: studies show that individuals with a strong sense of purpose have a 15% lower risk of death and report 56% higher levels of life satisfaction, while social connections—forged through shared values—can reduce the negative health impacts of stress by up to 30%. Just as a strong physical core protects the body, a fortified emotional center, anchored in purpose and community, provides measurable psychological armor for navigating uncertainty.
















































































































































































































































































































































 

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