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Why Resilience Can Make Or Break Your Career
Defining resilience
Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of risk - American Psychological Association.
It's the ability to bounce back when something goes wrong rather than crack under pressure.
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Resilience
It's the skill that enables us to recover quickly from difficulties. It means adapting well in the face of trauma, tragedy or significant stress.
We build our resilience by learni...
Build a circle of trust
The primary factor in resilience is having supportive relationships, inside and outside the family.
Close friends, family and loved ones represent our social support; they encourage and motivate us, and let us know that we aren’t alone.
Reframe stressful situations
The way we view a potentially stressful situation can either make the crisis worse in our mind or minimize it.
Reframing things in a more positive way can alter our perceptions and relieve our stressful feelings.
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The paradox of resilience
To overcome adversity, you must rescue yourself first. Your mindset, not the event, defines if you will be ‘rescued’ or not.
Resilience is less about who you are and more about how you thi...
Resilience Principles
- Challenge: Resilient people turn difficulty into a challenge. They don't fight against reality, they confront it.
- Commitment: Having something to fight for gives you extra motivation.
- Self-Control: Free will is the realization that you own your actions and control your reactions.
Build a First Responder Mindset
- Reframe your thoughts about reality: You can’t control reality, but you can manage how you adapt to it.
- Prepare for the worst: You can’t train to deal with every possible situation, but you can prepare your mind to adapt to unexpected ones.
- Create alternative paths: Creativity plays a critical role in overcoming adversity.
- Leverage the power of relationships: Rescuing yourself from adversity starts with you but strong relationships are critical for bouncing back.
- Mind your spirit: Religious and spiritual support bring us comfort during adversity.
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Resilience
It is our ability to survive and flourish through our traumas, stressors, responsibility shifts and challenges offered by life.
Self-Respecting
To be resilient, you must develop the ability to self-soothe when things get tough.
When things are in a particularly stressful place, you must tap into your will, motivation, and pliability to continue moving forward.
Emotionally Driven
Resilient people are not needy, desperate or overly reactive.
They carry a relaxed attitude and view rejection as a new direction opportunity. They don’t get down when challenged, they commit to getting up. They do not depend upon others for our resources.