Building resilience

Challenges, obstacles, adversity, and struggle are inevitable in life – especially when we choose to spend more time out of our comfort zone.

They’re going to happen – we can’t change, or control, that.

The bad news is: We can’t choose what happens to us
The good news is: We can choose how we respond to what happens

When we’re resilient in the face of a challenge we can influence two important things: how we move through it and what we get from it. And those matter, big time.

It won’t be easy but this is a skill we can all get better at.

Moving through, and learning from, a challenge is not a race. This could take days, weeks, months, or even years. Understanding the process and techniques won’t necessarily speed up the process, but they will definitely change how we experience it, and what we get from it.

(Source: Resilience Toolkit by Trevor Ragan and Alex Belser)