Tackling Life’s Challenges
As professionals, we are on a journey – one that is unique to each of us. No other person has travelled the same path or faced the same challenges in exactly the same way as you have. But every one of us has battled, taken risks, made mistakes and experienced victories. Some of the battles have levelled us and required us to turn inward to find the strength to continue on. At other times, we confidently know exactly what to say and do in order to reach our goals.
How could one woman experience such a wide variation in the ability to manage adversity?
The answer lies in one’s RESILIENCE – the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change. Resilience is something that we all need because it is positively correlated with our sense of well-being.
How often are you “derailed from your center,” and how easily can you get yourself back on track?
Do you find yourself constantly putting out fires and reacting to problems, or do you look for the good in others and expect that things will just work out?
Have you regularly and consistently invested in yourself by making yourself a priority? In which of the 6 areas of self-care do you think you could do more?
Do you make a concerted effort to live in the present moment and appreciate all of the beauty that the present has to offer?
During this keynote, I share my personal story and how 3 significant events or circumstances have caused me to examine my own resilience…
Through a combination of personal experience and a thorough review of the research, I have identified the three most impactful ways you can strengthen your resilience and work through major and minor challenges with grace and gratitude.
Mindset: Seeing the World Through a Strengths Perspective
Refueling: Personal Wellness Maintenance
Training Your Brain Through Mindfulness
Science has shown us that meditation and mindfulness training has a profound effect on our physical health and our emotional and spiritual well-being [Dan Harris – 10% Happier]
I have been able to use meditation to become centered by focusing on my breath and quieting my mind, and to stop the detrimental process of OVERTHINKING, no matter what chaos is happening around me. William James once said, “The greatest weapon against stress is the ability to choose one thought over another.”
Arianna Huffington, who wrote Thrive, is one of the people that has shaped our thinking about the ways in which we need to change the American workplace. She says, “Being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us – including ourselves. And that is where our wisdom is found.”
Resilience is a quality that is strengthened gradually through life experience and deliberate practice, but I believe it is what differentiates those who turn away from a challenge and continue to live small from those who power through life with the innermost faith that there is NOTHING I cannot be or have or do.
3 ways to become more resilient
Mindset:
Seeing the world through strengths of perspective
Refueling:
Personal wellness maintenance, selfcare
Training your brain:
Learning mindfulness. Click here to learn more about mindfulness.