BUILDING CHARACTER AND RESILIENCE

"Fall down seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese proverb

RESILIENCE

Resilience is the ability to recover from setbacks and overcome challenges in life.  A resilient person faces the same difficulties as anyone else but can withstand them with more strength and endurance than someone who hasn't developed this characteristic. It's helpful to reframe failure as a learning opportunity and some have even said that learning from failure is the food of champions.

Resilience can mean anything from facing grief with hope, to the ability to view failure as a learning curve.  A growth mindset is key to resilience - you must firmly believe that this current setback or situation doesn't define you.  People who lack resilience tend to: blow things out of proportion, assume that a bad situation will get worse and allow negative thought to spiral into negative words and actions.

Many things are beyond your control, but you are in charge of how you respond.  The main person to benefit from learning resilience is you!  Having this virtue will equip you to be a valuable contributor to society, to the workplace and to maintain healthy, long lasting relationships.

If you look back over the last 12 months, have you grown more resilient?