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Why Resilience Can Make Or Break Your Career
Setbacks are opportunities
The next time you experience a career setback, just think back to a time in your life when you were able to persevere. You are more resilient than you realize.
Think of J.K. Rowling for example. The first Harry Potter manuscript was rejected by 12 major publishers before being accepted.
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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
... is the mental toughness to face and overcome adversity. It keeps you up and running long after others have given up.
Resilience emerges through your life experience and through the...
Core Beliefs of Resilient People
- "I master my emotions lest they master me." They step back from a situation before taking action.
- "I walk the talk and never just talk the walk." When they make a commitment, they fulfill it.
- "I can and do prepare myself for the future." They see themselves as being in constant training to face the next set of challenges.
- "I learn more from failure than from success." They don't fear failure.
- "I value my courage higher than my security." They accept that nothing in today's world is secure: not jobs, not information, not the future.
- "I take criticism constructively not personally." Criticism toughens them because they don't take it personally.
- "I keep my goals in mind but I focus on my process." They can adapt to and overcome obstacles.
- "I value strong, supportive relationships."
- "I reward myself for every win."
- "I always have more to give." Their energy and attention are not limited resources.