Invest In YOURSELF: Go from Surviving to Thriving

“Every mountain you climb leads you to a never-ending destination of thriving gorgeously.” ―?Hiral Nagda

Managing Adversity: The Resilience Mindset

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To move from a place of simply SURVIVING in life to a place of THRIVING, RESILIENCE is a NECESSARY trait!

At a basic level, RESILIENCE is our ability to bounce back from tragedies and difficulties we encounter in life.

At a more complex level, the RESILIENT MINDSET embraces the idea that true resilience is our ability to navigate life, adapt to change, learn through adversity, and understand our feelings and emotional responses to situations.

For this to be achieved, there must be an elevated level of personal awareness and insight which leads to a deep understanding of self (O’Keeffe, 2019).

RESILIENCE is an asset when it comes to managing ADVERSITY because it helps us to OVERCOME it.

Rather than crumbling under the pressure and weight of every challenge we encounter, we become able to assess the challenge.

We learn and grow from challenges as we go through them, and then move forward with the lessons we have been taught (O’Keeffe, 2019).

RESILIENCE empowers us to continue moving forward, learning, growing, and building on the things we are learning in life.

Keys to Developing a Resilient Mindset

To develop a resilient mindset, there are several qualities and practices that can be implemented.

The following outlines several of those qualities and practices and their relation to the development of resilience.

Optimism:

??A strong trait of those with a resilient mindset is an INTENTIONAL OPTIMISTIC outlook when approaching challenging situations.

The way a person views a situation shapes the approach they take when dealing with the situation.

A more POSITIVE OUTLOOK tends to yield a more positive outcome because individuals see opportunities as opposed to obstacles.

Thus, we enthusiastically address issues versus hesitantly avoiding them (Mind Tools, 2020).

Leading psychologist Martin Seligman explains that optimism is linked to resilience in that it helps people’s views on permanence, pervasiveness, and the personalization of hardships.

Optimism leads people to see unpleasant events as temporary rather than permanent.

It prevents setbacks from impacting unrelated areas of their lives, and to not blame themselves when unpleasant events occur.

Thus, people can better pivot and recover from the challenges they experience (Mind Tools, 2020).

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?Focus on What You Can Control:

Learning to FOCUS on what is within your CONTROL and releasing those things that are not is an important part of developing resilience.

It is only those things within our control we can influence.

Thus, exerting physical or mental, and emotional energy on things outside of our control is mismanagement of time and energy (Miller, 2020).

Individuals who spend their time and energy on what they can control become more resilient!

This is because they put their efforts towards those things that will have the greatest impact and produce the most results.

This allows them to be effective and respond better to situations that arise (Mind Tools, 2020).

?Self-Awareness:

SELF-AWARENESS is CRITICAL to the development of a RESILIENT MINDSET.

Self-awareness helps us to assess areas of ourselves and our lives where we need to improve and areas of our lives that are producing favorable results.

Self-awareness offers us key insights about ourselves that we can use to change, adapt, grow, or alter ourselves, our environment, or other elements.

This contributes to resilience by helping us keep patterns and habits that help us adapt and respond to challenges.

At the same time becoming aware of and purging patterns and habits that work against our goals and pursuits.

When we can cultivate a RESILIENT MINDSET our ability to cope with challenges will be strengthened.

Rather than being overcome by negative situations and circumstances we will become empowered to overcome those situations and circumstances.

Invest In YOURSELF by implementing the practices mentioned and others like them, by doing this we will be one step closer to better navigating the difficulties we encounter.

It Starts With YOU!

References:

Miller, K. (2020). 5+ ways to develop a growth mindset using grit and resilience. PositivePsychology.com. https://positivepsychology.com/5-ways-develop-grit-resilience/

Mind Tools. (2020). Developing resilience: Overcoming and growing from setbacks. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/resilience.htm

O'Keeffe, S. (2019, March 11). 4 aspects of a resilient mindset. https://thriveglobal.com/stories/4-aspects-of-a-resilient-mindset/

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