One of the meanings listed in the dictionary for
Resilience is “being able to recover quickly from difficult situations.”
How good are you at bouncing back after a
disappointment, loss or difficult challenge?
I am absolutely convinced that building the skills of resilience
can open the way for more financial and life success.
We have all experienced failures and disappointments in our
professional and personal lives. We have a choice, while it
may be very difficult, to get up and try again.
” I wouldn’t be where I am now, if I didn’t fail…a lot.
The good, the bad is all apart of the success equation.”
Mark Cabin, billionaire entrepreneur and owner
of the NBA Dallas Mavericks
What do you need to practice to develop and
strengthen your skills to become resilient:
***Learn how to let go of Plan A when it fails
and create a Plan B or Plan C.
***Make an effort to find humor in the middle of
a disappointment or loss.
***Remind yourself of your past successes when
you are in the middle of a failure.
***Focus on your determination to complete your
commitments even when you aren’t yet seeing results.
There are some interesting studies that show how building
the skills of resilience can contribute to workplace
performance and other life and professional success.
One study showed that resilience is not just a quality
of extraordinary individuals. Instead it is a characteristic
that appears in ordinary people making use of
ordinary human resources.
To learn about the details of these studies you can listen
to my Internet Radio Show on
“Resilience, the Ability to Bounce Back”
It features Professor and Author Kathryn Britton.
To listen to the show:
Click Here
The wonderful gift of being able to work with clients for
a period of time is the opportunity to remind them of
their abilities to bounce back. I can encourage them
sincerely, because I have seen them do it before.