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…
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…