60 Tips on How to Develop resilience

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In this article you will learn the Following

-18 Attributes of Resilient People

-60 Tips on how to Build your Resilience

-How VUCA-BANI world is adding to the stress 

-How parents are creating - insecure, unsure kids

-​TEST Your Resilience -Find out whether you are Resilient enough

How to develop resilience and mental toughness to bounce back in life

How we look at adversity and stress and how we respond to these situations impact strongly on whether we succeed and or are happy and peaceful.

The fact is that we're going to fail from time to time, we would be facing many life threatening crises several time and we would make mistakes and fall flat on our faces occasionally.

It's hard to imagine what our world would be like if Edison & people like him had given up after their first few failures. This is the most important reasons to have a resilient mindset.

Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back after crisis, emergency, accident, life changing events & crippling diseases, financial/career/ relationship disasters & all the time when things don't go as planned. Resilient people don't wallow or stick with their failures & miseries, they acknowledge the situation, learn from their mistakes, and then take actions to move forward in life.
18 Attributes of Resilient People

1.Resilient people view a difficulty/obstacles/down-turn/set-backs as challenge – something to get over & not as a paralyzing event

2.They look at their failures and mistakes as lessons to learn from and opportunities for growth. They don't view them as a negative reflection on their abilities or self-worth.

3.Resilient people are committed to their lives and their goals

4.Their Commitment isn't just restricted to their work – they commit to their relationships, their friendships, the causes they care about and stand for.

5.Resilient people use their time and energy focusing on taking actions in every situations and events that they have control over. Because they put their efforts where they can have the most impact, they feel empowered and confident. They do not bother about what they cannot control or what is beyond them right now. They understand that in everything seemingly impossible, there are few possible actions within their area of control

6.Although their big picture in always in their sight, their main focus is only on the immediate actions rather than the results or outcomes.

7.Resilient people do not generalize their experience or situation, they don't let setbacks or bad events affect other unrelated areas of their lives

8.Resilient people accept the set-back, mistakes & failures without blaming themselves for these events

9.Instead they find out the cause and go about correcting them, if they feel it is important otherwise they let go and move on

10.They're realistically optimistic. Resilient people have a positive expectation towards their the future

11.Resilient people have solid goals, and a desire to achieve those goals

12.Resilient people are empathetic and compassionate, however, they don't waste time worrying what others think of them

13.They maintain healthy relationships with people socially, professionally & personally, but don't bow to peer pressure

14.Resilient people never think of themselves as victims, they accept these as part of life & take personal ownership

15.Resilient people do is immediately look at the problem and say, 'What's the solution to that? What is this trying to teach me?'They look at all the pains as opportunities to learn, solve the problem and changing themselves

16.They are not cowed by rejections

17.They seek out opportunities for growth and learning

18.They practice attitude of gratitude

Because of their zeal to bring up a great child, today's parents are creating children who believe in YOLO & because of it they get into a psychological disorder called FOMO - today's parents are creating anxious & insecure children, teenagers & adult

How this VUCA-BANI world ,the technology, the competition, the insecurities, the children become anxious and look for fast gratification, which in long term creates hell of a lot of social, psychological and health issue

  • 1.Because of over use & easy availability of gadgets & social media platforms – the kids escape the uncomfortable emotions like boredom, loneliness, or sadness by immersing themselves in video games when they were in the car or by chatting on social media
  • 2.Because the entire generation spent their childhoods avoiding discomfort, they didn't gain the coping skills they need to handle everyday challenges
  • 3.Parents go out of their ways to make their kids happy Happiness is emphasized so much in our culture right now that some parents think it's their job to make their kids happy all the time. When a child is sad, his parents cheer him up. Or when he's angry, they calm him down Kids grow up believing that if they don't feel happy around the clock, something must be wrong. And that creates a lot of inner turmoil. They don't understand that it's normal and healthy to feel sad, frustrated, guilty, disappointed, and angry sometimes too.
  • 4.Parents are giving unrealistic praise due to false notion of keeping them motivated. Making their kids feel that they are best all the time breaks them away from reality
  • 5.Parents are getting caught up in the rat race & passing their insecurities in their kids
  • 6.So much is focused on academic preparation for life that the parents put little effort into teaching kids the emotional skills they need to succeed. Knowing how to manage your time, combat stress, and take care of your feelings are key components to living a good life. Without healthy coping skills, it's no wonder teens are feeling anxious over everyday hassles
  • 7.Somewhere along the line, many parents began believing their role is to help kids grow up with as few emotional and physical scars as possible. They became so overprotective that their kids never practiced dealing with challenges on their own
  • 8.Because of their own fears due to VUCA Adults don't know to help kids face their fears the right way
  • 9.On one end of the spectrum, you'll find parents who push their kids too hard. They force their children to do things that terrify them. On the other end of the spectrum, you'll find parents who don't push their kids at all
  • 10.Kids aren't being given enough free time to play
60 Tips on how to Build your Resilience
  • 1.Take Care of Yourself, Get enough sleep , Exercise regularly, Eat Healthy
  • 2.Learn effective stress management techniques suited to you
  • 3.Develop strong relationships happy, confident, secure and caring People
4. Make Learning your number one priority

5.Help the underprivileged people, whenever you can

6.Identify what are the life's good things past & present those are your personal blessings

7. Learn to look at the funny side of even the tragic things, events & circumstances 
8. Identify your strengths & learn about your areas of weaknesses, then accept and love yourself unconditionally 
9. Identify all your past major negative events, learn or identify how that has impacted your life positively and what it taught you 
10. Learn to identify the possibilities, the alternatives, the options & learn to identify multiple options much more than the obvious ones 
11. Learn to polish your creativity & develop confidence in using your creativity to solve all your problems effectively 
12. Learn to break the big insurmountable problems into smaller steps 
13. Start disrupting your life consciously by taking risk & going for adopting the newer changes before it forces you to change 14. Develop the habit of identifying what you can do in every situation and what you cannot, the only focusing on and taking action in what you can 
15. Learn to take decisions & accept the consequence without blaming anyone or anything 
16. Face your fears by slowing upping the ante
17. Practice to become Assertive
18. Start showing your vulnerable side openly, in order to improve 
19. Train your mind to look at the same thing/situation from different angles, different perspectives
20. Learn to say no to people and situation
21. Learn to think and channelize your negative energies in constructive manner 
22. Develop your interest and hobbies that brings you in touch with diversified people as well as makes you stretch yourself beyond your current capabilities
23. Create balance between your different life roles 
24. Polish your soft skills by identifying the most important ones & regular practice 
25. Pro-actively volunteer for challenging assignment 
26. When losing energy & hope try to push with your will power till you get what sports person call second-wind, but use your will-power only sparingly
27. Forgive yourself for your past mistakes
28. Take toxic & draining people out of your life 
29. Draw on passion, live for your dreams, stop bothering about pleasing people or getting their approval 
30. Get a mentor 
31. Seek help of others, if need be get professional counseling
  • 32. Learn to Meditate for getting into thoughtless mode to relax
  • 33. Be nice to yourself don't beat yourself up
  • 34. Before you face a tough situation, imagine the worst, let your imagination run riot, what is the worst that can happen. Then work on what I can do to handle it effectively. Create few different scenarios and plan for all
  • 35. Avoid falling into thinking trap or self-defeating internal conversation when you use the words like never, always, can't, they… etc
  • 36. Gather more information by thinking through alternative explanations for the situation you are facing, do-not create panic just by sitting & brooding, after you have at least 60-70% information plan actions to counter. Positive Actions to Help you Manage Emotions
  • 37. Acknowledge that constant change is a part of life, Remember that you've made it through tough times before. Defeat and failure never feel good, but they are an important part of life
  • 38. Focus on what's right rather than what is wrong
  • 39. After all or before giving up ask yourself, What I need to do to Bounce Back from Defeat. All you essentially need is a little perspective and a ray of hope. That is what will carry you forward
  • 40. Accept that for whatever happened, whether you are at fault or not, fixing it is your responsibility, if it is disrupting your life
  • 41. Then Start Taking Control as it is a problem that you must now deal with. Ask your self
  • I.Who could help me gain control or influence over this problem?
  • II.What part of this problem can I actually control?
  • III.What parts could I potentially influence?

IV.How could I potentially contain this problem from getting any worse?

V.How could I minimize its adverse effects?

VI.What's the ideal outcome I would like to realize in this situation?

VII.How would I essentially like to bounce back from defeat?

VIII.What kind of solutions to this problem come to mind?

IX.What sequence of steps could help me get to my desired outcome?

X.How else could I view this situation?

XI.What's something of value I could take away from this experience?

XII.What opportunities does this situation now bring to light?

42. Re-Prioritize Your Life -In order to get things back on track you may very well need to re-prioritize a few things -When adversity strikes, it's important to get very clear about your priorities. Your life has after all suddenly taken a turn in an unexpected direction.

1. Take responsibility for the missed opportunity 2. Remind yourself that you're bound to get better

3.Reframe the setback in positive ways

4.Focus on what you missed.

5.Figuring out what caused you to fail will not only help you feel better about what happened but will allow you to address whatever you contributed to the end result.

6.Consider whether fear of failure helped to create the mess you are in

7. Accept what happened 8. Analyze what happened 9. Don't dwell on failure, Get over it, Move on 10. Focus on bettering yourself Restart you life


TEST Your Resilience -Find out whether you are Resilient enough

Rate yourself from 1 to 5 [1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree]

  1. I treat difficulties in life as temporary and fully expect to overcome them by changing my perspective, changing the method & learning something new
  2. My Feelings of frustrations, loss and de-motivation get over very fast, the moment I ask myself what I need to do to over this or these
  3. Ambiguity and uncertainty in the future, the task excites me
  4. I welcome change, I adapt quickly to new developments.
  5. Because I want to know I am curious and I ask questions to clarify and to learn and apply new possibilities to solve
  6. I can laugh at myself in tough situations
  7. All my past crises had profound learnings for me
  8. If it is going to promote my goals, I normally mange to persevere in my efforts, energy and actions till I achieve
  9. Through my many bad times I have created a newer self & have boosted certain aspect of my life

Your Score & what it tells you

Less than 20: Low Resilience, You get hurt criticism & may have trouble facing pressure situations, you may get into depressive mood & may feel helpless during and after rough situations.

20–30: Some Resilience, You need to work on the qualities those you lack

30–35: Adequate Resilience, You recover well from most crises

35–45: Highly Resilient, You do bounce back very well from what life throws at you & can also enjoy the Adrenalin pumping.

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