<ul><li>Take 100% responsibility for your choices, reactions, and lived experience no matter what changes or hardships occur. </li><li>You always have a choice in how you respond. </li><li>This internal locus of control is empowering amid situations where external factors are in flux.</li></ul>

Taking Complete Responsibility

<ul><li>Build an unshakeable core belief in yourself, your inner wisdom, and your capability to positively handle anything life sends your way. </li><li>Draw strength from your true self and inner compass versus external validation or transient things. </li><li>Self-trust provides stability and anchors you amid turbulent change, enabling clearer decisions. </li></ul>

Developing Unshakeable Belief in Oneself

True security and confidence come from within, not external sources like status, possessions, accolades or the opinions of others. Connect to your inner stillness and stability. No person or transient thing can shake you when your sense of self-worth comes from inside.

Finding True Security Within

Learn to detach from rigid assumptions, narrow identities, and old stories about who you are and what you're capable of. Hold aspects of your life loosely rather than clinging rigidly. What we tightly cling to out of fear or ego often ends up restricting rather than supporting us. Releasing limiting attachments frees us.

Letting Go of Limiting Attachments

<ul><li>Don't just endure change - embrace it proactively even when difficult or uncomfortable. </li><li>Regularly test and expand your limits. </li><li>Like a muscle, your adaptability and resilience grow through exposure to small daily stresses and changes. </li><li>Seek out challenges to grow your change muscle. </li></ul>

Flexing Your Change Muscle

The ones who are change proof embrace change as an opportunity to grow into more powerful, capable versions of themselves.

Catch and alter self-limiting narratives running inside your head that reinforce resistance and fear of change. Edit your inner story to describe yourself as adaptable, ready to handle any transition or challenge. The words shape your experience and self-image.

Changing Your Inner Narrative

Change is an inevitable constant in life rather than an aberration. Cycles of change and reinvention are woven into the fabric of human history and our personal lives. Rather than futilely resisting change, we can accept it as an integral part of life. Reframing change as an opportunity and catalyst for growth rather than a threat is a key mindset shift to adapt and succeed in its midst.

Recognizing Change as Inevitable and Constant

<ul><li>Fully incorporate adaptability and growth into your core identity. </li><li>When you derive self-worth from continuous learning and progress versus stability, change no longer disturbs a rigid sense of self. </li><li>You expect occasional upheaval. Change becomes integral to who you are.</li></ul>

Incorporating Change into Your Identity


In Change Proof, Adam Markel provides strategies to develop resilience in the face of life's inevitable changes. He offers principles and mindset shifts to embrace change as an opportunity for growth rather than resisting it.

Learn how to thrive on uncertainty instead of merely managing it—from the resiliency expert and author of PIVOT In his #1 bestselling guide to resilience, Pivot, business and personal development expert Adam Markel showed how building resilience can supercharge your life and career. Now, in Change Proof, he shows how you can move beyond managing change to actively embracing it—and actually using times of uncertainty, crisis and chaos to create opportunities and stimulate positive growth. Broken down into four parts, Change Proof explores the dynamics of change and provides a model of how to create the mindset that embraces it fully. Using case studies, current research and his years of experience as an expert in the integration of business and personal development, Markel uses real-life scenarios to illuminate the lessons in engaging chapters that include: <ul><li>The Myth of Balance</li> <li>The Resilience Bank Account</li> <li>Recovery vs. Burnout</li> <li>Even Michael Jordan Paused</li> <li>Get Out of Your Head</li> <li>A Little Failure Goes a Long Way</li> <li>Calm Is Contagious</li> <li>What Change-Proof Culture Can Do for You</li> </ul> You’ll learn how to choose change before it chooses you, what it takes (and what it means) to become truly change proof, and how to leverage your relationship to change. You’ll also find practical strategies in the change-proof model (pause, ask, choose). With a combination of mindset recalibration and specific, hands-on ways to make it work, Change Proof will help you take the art and science of resilience to the next level—and look forward to future and all the changes it will bring, with full confidence.

ADAM MARKEL

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