Your Personal Resilience Journey
Resilience has become a popular topic during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the entire world has needed proven and practical abilities for coping with adversity and thriving during uncertain situations. The holiday season can also require lots of flexibility and readiness to adapt, particularly this year.
You aren’t born with resiliency, it’s something you develop over time and with experience. The more you find out about resilience and, certainly the more you do of it, then the more resilient you become.
The key qualities for overcoming challenges—and returning stronger than before—include:
Openness to Possibility - How you interpret a situation evolves over time. Remaining open to the future and recognizing that feelings today will change offers faith and hope that things can feel better tomorrow.
A Positive Attitude – It’s a universal truth that not everything will always go as planned. Developing the view that life is full of possibilities makes it natural to be exposed to and acquire new skills when the unexpected happens.
Feeling Powerful - Knowing your strengths makes it easier to use them during difficult times. Resiliency is focusing on what can be done, instead of what can’t.
A Willingness to Fail - If you think of failure as a threat, life can feel like a battle that is constantly wearing you down. Approaching hard things with a “challenge mindset” means you're more likely to think you are capable of handling them, setbacks and all.
Want to see where you are in your personal resilience journey? The Resiliency Toolkit offers two short assessment tools you can use to understand your own resiliency. You’ll also discover tip sheets and other resources to help you build and increase your inner strength.
