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Make a contract with your partner, family, and friends allowing them to catch you in the throes of verbal diarrhea when you were unfairly treated.

Work out three or four different activities that will distract you and turn your attention to something productive. 

 ... you expose yourself to.

We all have a different threshold of the amount of rejection we can handle. Wisely considering how much more you can handle is essential. 

Before you take another step forward, ask yourself if you have the right resources and support in place to catch you.

• Teachers that plan lessons to be interesting, curiosity-provoking, and personally inspiring have better success in motivating their students to read.
• Leaders have better success in motivating their employees when they take the employees' perspective and invite them to create their own self-endorsed work goals.
• Parents are more successful when they try to truly understand why their children don't want to do something and then take the time to explain to them the benefits of the activity.

Most successful interventions do not try to change another person's motivation or emotion directly. Instead, they make changes to the person's environmental conditions and the quality of his or her relationships to encourage them to leave behind neglectful or abusive ones.

According to Self-Determination Theory, there are three basic psychological needs which we want to satisfy:

• Autonomy (self-determination). We are motivated when we have a choice in terms of tasks, time, team, and technique.
• Competence (capability and effectiveness). Mastery is a mindset. When we strive toward something greater than ourselves, it demands effort.
• Affiliation needs (association and belonging). We are motivated to form long-lasting positive relationships with others.

External rewards do not work because we don't do rule-based routine tasks. Instead, we need to create environments where intrinsic motivation thrives, where we can gain satisfaction from the activities themselves.

1. Resilience comes automatically to most of us.
2. It is part of a set of skills and behaviours and not a standalone concept.
3. Resilience is not an individual trait or quality, but dependent on many contextual factors like one’s upbringing, social factors and health conditions.
4. It is not a static concept but a flowing, dynamic process based on our life cycle and external conditions.
5. Resilience does not make a person a superhuman being, and the journey of suffering, misery and pain has to be undertaken.
6. Positivity is one-sided, and running away from negativity does not build resilience.

1. Don’t isolate yourself, but connect with others, and nurture your relationships. One can reach out to others, play and have fun by joining online or offline groups, or while going for a morning walk. One need not wait for a pandemic.
2. Accept what is happening to you(and others) and allow it to exist, while taking affirmative action towards stuff that is in your control.
3. Don’t avoid discomfort, but move towards it occasionally. It’s not always about comfort and convenience.
4. Distance yourself from your thoughts by practicing gratitude journaling, or simply writing on paper what is on your mind.
5. Find growth opportunities in adverse situations by reframing them as a new challenge, something known as Cognitive Reframing.