How Embracing A “Make It Happen” Philosophy Can Limit Your Long-Term Success

TAKING OFF THE ARMOR
8 min readApr 25, 2022
Cartoon image of a person leaning back and struggling to pull on a rope.
Image credit: physics.stackexchange.com

I was mindlessly scrolling through Facebook yesterday and saw a post from my friend Melanie (aka “Mel”). She was posting pictures of her Mt. Everest journey. I met Mel at one of my first assignments at Davis-Monthan in Tucson, Arizona. She had as much of an adventurous spirit back then as she does now. Seeing her take on Mt. Everest was really not a shock to…

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TAKING OFF THE ARMOR

Hi! I am a Veteran, Mom, nurse, writer, educator, blogger, and podcaster. Here to share issues impacting military transition. (Which impacts civilians too.)