April 16, 2025

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Articles for author: Steve Gwisdalla

Courage In Happiness

Courage in Happiness It’s easy to be angry. Don’t agree with something or someone, get mad. Something doesn’t go your way, blow your top. Your lottery ticket did not win again, pound your steering wheel. Anger comes easy to us humans. In my past rant and rave moments, I realize now how easy it was ...

Be a Beacon

Be a Beacon How many of us slept with the nightlight on when we were young? Why? The dark is scary. Being in a pitch-dark room seems to amplify every sound. When we cannot see in dark places, what is out there becomes the unknown and the unknown can be very scary. We turn on ...

Open-Source Kindness

Open-Source Kindness Human history is amazing. When the best people do their best work, it is my humble belief that we get the tiniest glimpse of Heaven on earth. Dr. Jonas Salk. Dr. Salk spent seven years developing the Polio vaccine in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Then in 1955, he shared it with ...

There Comes a Time

There Comes a Time This past weekend, my wife and I watched a documentary on the making of We Are the World. The song that raised millions of dollars for African famine relief. To date, it has sold over 20 million copies and is the ninth best selling single of all-time. It was a mammoth ...

Joy Magnet

Joy Magnet Hello fellow Tribe of Uppers! In our ongoing quest to advocate for more joy and keep our emotional bank accounts overflowing, today I would like to offer yet another (gulp) analogy. In past articles and podcasts, I have lamented how doing kind acts and being ‘up’ is vital for us. If we do ...

Be a Kahu

Be a Kahu One of the great joys of travelling is meeting people from all over the world. An added benefit of travelling last week was missing all the snow here in Michigan. While sitting in a pool on an 80-degree day last week, I overheard someone use the word Kahu to describe their spouse. ...

Life, I’m Coming for You

Life, I’m Coming for You Greetings fellow Tribe of Up members. The ToU is not an actual tribe per say, but more of a state of mind. Here in the ToU, we chose to find the good in things. Our mission statement is simple: To advocate for more joy. The negative, polarizing, and hateful can ...

No Haters Allowed

No Haters Allowed Happy New Year! As part of my new surrender philosophy I wrote about last week, and as a person who tries each day to advocate for more joy, which I write about nearly every week, I want to take a moment about something that is a goal in 2024. Haters need not ...

Steve Gwisdalla

Muscle Memory With a Twist!

Muscle Memory with a Twist YouTube is an amazing place. I have learned how to replace a windshield washer pump on my old Buick, how to lay luxury vinyl flooring in my basement, and training techniques of the US Navy Seals. I’ve learned a million other things too, but learning about why the Navy Seals ...

Steve Gwisdalla

Stop Observing, Start Being!

Stop Observing, Start Being! Over the past few weeks, I have tried to really observe people having moments. Families at the cider mill, couples at dinner, parents watching their young athletes compete, and the list goes on. One thing I noticed more than ever before was the number of people stopping and taking selfies and ...