Personal resilience means “Keep swimming!”
Your personal resilience is the quality that is embedded in the heart of success.
It’s not your creativity.
And it’s not your brilliance.
No, it’s not even luck.
Your resilience is what keeps you going, no matter what.
It’s a powerful key that unlocks untold treasures for you.
What is it?
Well, Roy H. Williams once quoted a young rabbi, saying, “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
This is a quality that shines like a precious gem, right at the core of this wisdom. Because, you see, this isn’t about putting your head down and just enduring. No, your resilience is transformative. When you learn to dance in life’s storms, they become something different.
Personal resilience includes diverse skills.
Creativity, flexibility, resourcefulness, patience, persistence, and gratitude are individual strengths that enrich your approach to each moment. When you put these skills together, you form a powerful core of
resilience. These core skills are strengths that you can draw on when times get tough. They can help you make helpful and strategic time choices, confront or reframe challenges, and move successfully through your day.
Your unique fund of resilient strengths shapes your perspective on individual situations and challenges. And these things, in turn, have a profound effect on how you experience your life. And resilience can be learned and enhanced, like any skill. The more you build your personal resilience, the more assured you will feel, no matter what.
Try this exercise:
Think back to a recent challenging situation. Describe it in detail. Now, visualize yourself moving through it. Activate all of your senses.
What do you see?
Describe what you smell and hear.
Make note of all the feelings that come up.
Next, visualize how you handled that challenge. Stay with yourself as you deliberately move through it. Then allow yourself to come back to this present moment. Quickly write down and describe how you navigated the challenge.
What skills did you call on to guide you through?
List them, along with the feelings you noticed.
This gives you a snapshot of your personal resilience tools. Appreciate them, along with your choice to draw on them.
Take a moment, too, to think about new skills that you might add to your resilience list. Remember that resilient strengths, like core muscles, support you all the time, enhancing your capacity to flex and stretch. What will you add to your toolbox today?
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