RESILIENCE
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WHAT IS RESILIENCE?
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BRAINS: JOURNEY TO RESILIENCE
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BUILDING RESILIENCE
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Mindfulness & Resilience
Mindfulness can increase resilience! In a study featuring 327 undergrads who completed a series of surveys measuring their level of mindfulness, their satisfaction with life, their emotional state, and their level of resilience, individuals with higher mindfulness levels had greater resilience thereby increasing their life satisfaction.
Make sure to check out the Mindfulness Page in our Virtual Calming Room.
Make sure to check out the Mindfulness Page in our Virtual Calming Room.
GRIT
How much Grit do you have? Try the Grit Scale
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WHAT IS GRIT?
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GRIT: FAMOUS FAILURES
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Quick Tips to Develop Grit & Resilience
1. Focus on Your Language Choice
The language you use when praising a co-worker, child, or spouse affects grit and resilience. When you praise someone for a characteristic or strength, (for example, “You are really smart. You are so flexible.”), it teaches a fixed mindset. This is why so many successful children struggle once they come across a challenge. Praising for effort or strategy fosters resilience and reminds them of their role in a successful outcome.
2. Surround Yourself with Positive People
Your thoughts become your reality, and so do the thoughts and actions of the people around you. While you can’t pick and choose every single person you interact with on a daily basis, you can be intentional about those you spend time with. By creating an environment where positive thinking and growth mindset are the norm, you will begin to see everything in your life as supporting you rather than thwarting you.
3. Adopt Flexible Thinking Patterns
Becoming less rigid in your thoughts and actions allows resilience and grit to blossom simply because flexible people don’t see problems; they see opportunities for growth and learning. When every challenge is met with creative thinking, you see yourself as capable and this confidence breeds more resilience.
4. Set Goals That Align with Your Purpose
People with a sense of purpose are happier. Purpose can seem like a hard-to-define goal. By creating smaller goals along the pathway to your larger purpose, you increase your success and the rate in which you accomplish your goals.
5. Build Time into Your Day for Reflection
When you take a time to reflect, you bring awareness to the things you have accomplished and the path you want to take. Whether your reflection takes the form of a meditation, a journaling session, or a walk outside, when you give yourself time to assess your accomplishments in a non-judgmental day, it allows you to adjust your actions accordingly.
The language you use when praising a co-worker, child, or spouse affects grit and resilience. When you praise someone for a characteristic or strength, (for example, “You are really smart. You are so flexible.”), it teaches a fixed mindset. This is why so many successful children struggle once they come across a challenge. Praising for effort or strategy fosters resilience and reminds them of their role in a successful outcome.
2. Surround Yourself with Positive People
Your thoughts become your reality, and so do the thoughts and actions of the people around you. While you can’t pick and choose every single person you interact with on a daily basis, you can be intentional about those you spend time with. By creating an environment where positive thinking and growth mindset are the norm, you will begin to see everything in your life as supporting you rather than thwarting you.
3. Adopt Flexible Thinking Patterns
Becoming less rigid in your thoughts and actions allows resilience and grit to blossom simply because flexible people don’t see problems; they see opportunities for growth and learning. When every challenge is met with creative thinking, you see yourself as capable and this confidence breeds more resilience.
4. Set Goals That Align with Your Purpose
People with a sense of purpose are happier. Purpose can seem like a hard-to-define goal. By creating smaller goals along the pathway to your larger purpose, you increase your success and the rate in which you accomplish your goals.
5. Build Time into Your Day for Reflection
When you take a time to reflect, you bring awareness to the things you have accomplished and the path you want to take. Whether your reflection takes the form of a meditation, a journaling session, or a walk outside, when you give yourself time to assess your accomplishments in a non-judgmental day, it allows you to adjust your actions accordingly.
GROWTH MINDSET
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GROWTH MINDSET: WHAT IT IS, HOW IT WORKS, WHY IT MATTERS
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HOW TO BUILD A GROWTH MINDSET
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UNLEASH THE LEARNING MACHINE
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"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before."
-Elizabeth Edwards
"Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making."
-James G. Stavridis
"Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit."
-Angela Duckworth
"Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand. If you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you."
-Travis Bradberry
"Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort. It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert."
-Angela Duckworth