Carolyn Rubenstein

Now is everything. Inspiration is everywhere. Perseverance is power.

Welcome! I created this site as a place where people can visit and witness the power of perseverance and see how it has helped people overcome incredible obstacles and achieve great things. I’ve seen this power firsthand from working with children with cancer most of my life. It inspired me to write a book, Perseverance, about these courageous young people and how they used motivation to turn knowledge into action and action into change. Please return here often, and be inspired!

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Carolyn’s Newest Project — Spring Inspiration!

Spring is a collaborative project that has a single, overarching theme: inspiration. Through videos, blog posts, and the website itself, Spring is opening an insightful dialogue that focuses on helping you design a life you love.

Please check it out at http://springinspiration.com

Perseverance will move you to tears, teach you to appreciate, and inspire you to persevere.

— Tal Ben-Shahar, New York Times bestselling author of Happier and The Pursuit of Perfect

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Carolyn Rubenstein

We Persevere

About the Book

Perseverance:

True Voices of Cancer Survivors

Imagine being in high school or college—enjoying the "best times of your life"—when you're told you have cancer. Perseverance tells the gripping, first-person accounts of twenty such young people who persevered with an incredible sense of purpose and strength, while reminding everyone that now is everything.

The Daily Tip

Be Positive

It is much easier to allow your mood to descend into a downward spiral than to watch it like a hawk and try to focus on the positives. After all, it takes energy. Therefore, realizing that your energy is well spent on this very activity is critical. We often don’t even recognize this as something that requires an expenditure of energy. But it needs so much focus that when you feel burned out but haven’t delegated energy to this task, you will have much more work to do than if you had focused all along on maintaining a positive attitude and moving forward. By recognizing even the smallest glimmers of hope and silver linings, you’ll be able to push through tough times and persevere much more effortlessly than if you feel like everything is just plain awful.

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