Resilience - Building it

When it comes to living a fulfilled life - one with dreams achieved, one where individuals become pillars of their chosen industries/fields, become active guardians of their communities and stable members of their families and relationships - I consider one thing above all, an individuals ability to persist.

Building it starts with one thing, choosing to become resilient. Resilience is earned and built - some people are thrown into difficult situations, this doesn’t mean resilience is developed due to this. One must wear the right glasses, view things from the right angle, to turn something difficult into something truly wonderful.

The secret to resilience consists of the following: 1) Knowing your goals/outcomes & 2) Sacrifice oh and 3) NOT GIVING UP.

By throwing yourself into difficult situations, you will have to find and develop techniques to manage, under the circumstances, so you stay on track. This is your chance to be a scientist of your own life, recording the results of what works, what doesn’t and consistently refining. To be resilient you will need to refine your choices and critique your decisions across ALL areas of your life. At work, at school, at home - it is all apart of your life, none of it is separate from you or to your success..

Everything needs to be pointed in the direction of your goals and dreams.

In multiple conversations, as recently as 10 days ago, a quote has been raised by people who are working with the younger generation.

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
G. Michael Hopf,Those Who Remain

Regardless of what time we are in, I think everyone should be doing something to make day to day life a little harder for themselves. Everything is absolutely too comfortable, too manicured, too organised - what is wrong with having to roll your sleeves up and manage even the slightest form of discomfort?

The good news is, we are capable of creating harder times for ourselves. I think we need to do this often in order to separate the needs from wants, to re contextualise life and our place in it, to be grateful for the good times, to appreciate the slow times. We need to learn how to fight for our goals, to manage difficult people, tasks and circumstances. I can’t teach you resilience, nobody can. Only you can do that - it is a choice. Here is to getting better, stronger and tougher - nobody will ever have your back better than you. Go and make yourself proud.

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