I think its ”all of the above” isn’t it? Certainly there is the consideration of developing resilience through experience;

Capable and experienced Admirals were not developed by chartering on calm oceans alone. 1-3 focus on the practical development, 4-5 relate to the emotional fortifying, in my opinion.

Would love to hear your thoughts on building resilience – Rob Wright, Tamsin Tweddell, Sabrina Ahmed, Skylar Haven, Ruth Jepchumba, Isa Buencamino, Saira Chaudry

Non-negotiable, regular, morning & weekly routines to remind myself of my mission/goals & monitor progress is THE biggest resilience game changer when it comes to managing my energy states, Ella Bernie.

Alignment with purpose & the sense of making progress completely transforms the way I feel about myself.

Misalignment makes me feel crap. So I end up carrying tension, like white noise. And if it’s not nipped in the bud, before you know it, I can end up snapping at folk unjustly – & it won’t be anything they’ve done, it’s just the tension finding an outlet.

When I feel like I’m winning/making progress, everything else – from emotional intelligence, to mindset, persistence, vision, optimism, patience, endurance & so much more – becomes so much easier.

These regular routines are not static. From journalling to reading; from reviewing notes to writing new ones; from meditating to planning, I freestyle them as needs must.

Practising resilience is a discipline. And like any discipline, they work best if you enjoy them. The variety works for me that way. What isn’t up for grabs is when I do them, which is at the same time every day…

Hey Ella! This is one I think about a lot and I agree there’s an element of all of the above here 🙂 but I’d also like to add rest to the list. I’ve found the best way I can be resilient is if I allow myself to properly rest and recover when I need to, something I usually don’t realise until I really, really need to 😉 but it’s something I’m trying to ensure I make proper space for now rather than waiting until the point of burnout.

I personally look at resilience as something that is innate in all of us and we never lose it.

We can however have a heap of THINKING about whether we are resilient or not, based on what we’re personally feeling within our current experience in the moment.

How many times in our lives have we bounced back from something that was not so ideal in the moment, only to see/discover everything actually turned out a lot differently to what we thought it was going to turn out like?

How much control of it did we actually have over how things eventually turned out?

Another way I look at this is that nobody teaches a baby how to be resilient, because it is already built into the system.

For me I find this really interesting and worthy of exploration.

All of the above. Everything always comes back to how I communicate with myself, asking myself better questions which bring forth better answers in order to realign with my core values & mission.