Recently, I was a guest on my nephew’s new podcast Teo Learns. In it, I spoke about setting goals for yourself and sticking with them. As an occupational therapist (and all my fellow therapy disciplines), writing patient goals is part of the job, but this was about applying goals to everyday life, getting things done, and staying motivated.

I recently re-read the Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. One of my favorite quotes from her books is, “There is no great loss without some small gain.” In the books, when a plague of grasshoppers destroyed the family’s wheat field, which was a tremendous loss for them, they were thankful that at least they didn’t have to buy feed for their chickens because they were filling up on grasshoppers.