3 Simple Steps to Increase Your Resilience
Resilience is a key attribute in a variety of important areas in life. Discipline, focus, our ability to navigate through difficult emotions all require resilience, which is also a critical ingredient in helping us to achieve our goals and manage through setbacks, failures, challenging times, and adversity in general.
Without resilience, we can quickly find ourselves feeling down, easily discouraged, and stuck in negative thinking spirals. It can also lead to giving up prematurely on things and struggling to find ways to extricate ourselves from the plethora of challenging moments we can find ourselves wading through on a daily basis.
Life is already hard at times, and it can be overwhelming when we aren’t feeling mentally and emotionally strong and capable. Here are 3 simple mental tools to help you build more resilience so that you can…
Staying Mentally Strong and Resilient
Managing the Negatives of Technology and Social Media
The world has seen many extraordinary technological leaps, in the past century in particular, which have dramatically improved human existence. For many of us, we don’t have to look much beyond our immediate environments to appreciate all the benefits and comforts of modern day living.
There have been numerous impressive changes in society as a result of these innovations. Medical advances have eradicated diseases and lengthened lifespans, computers can now perform billions of processes per second, transportation advances mean we can circumnavigate the world in hours, and we can instantly see someone equally distant—thanks to exponential improvements in current communication technologies. The list goes on.
The benefits of these, and the ease of life today compared to our ancestors are undeniable. But there have also been many creations we enjoy immensely that have come with unintended consequences that can negatively impact our strength of mind, emotional resilience, and our ability to work productively toward improving and enjoying our…
WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT?
Five Easy Steps to Clarify and Achieve Your Goals
What do you want to get out of your life?
It’s such a simple question, but the answer isn’t always straightforward.
Getting fit, doing well on a presentation, wanting to make more money, improving our health, mastering a craft, excelling in a career, completing a degree, winning a championship, and finding a life partner are all examples of common goals.
Our first task in setting our goals, is to get extremely clear and focused about what we want for our lives. We'll start this by coming up with a wish list of goals and being completely honest about what we want. This may sound easier than it actually is because notions about what we think we should want, or what we think others want for us, can interfere and sneak their way onto our lists.
If we want a happy, fulfilled life, it’s important to…