How do you respond to stress, change or obstacles in your life? Do you rise to challenges or succumb to them? Resilience is a personal strength or attribute that allows you to handle setbacks, manage stress, overcome adversity, adapt to change and maintain a “never give up” attitude. Try these tips to help you strengthen your resilience!
- Take care of yourself. You should be your number one priority. Practicing proper self-care is a necessity for resilience.
- Manage your stress properly—this is the foundation of resilience. If you’re unable to manage stress effectively, you may have a difficult time being resilient. Learn more about stress management here.
- Seek social support. Having social connections can help you maintain positivity and respond to challenging situations with resilience.
- Build your self-efficacy. Confidence in your ability to do things helps to promote resilience. Find ways to boost your self-esteem here.
- Maintain a positive self-image. Knowing your strengths can help you conquer your weaknesses!
- Increase your optimism. Realistic positivity can help you address hardships with a sensible outlook.
- Practice gratitude. Appreciating what you have and the people in your life can help you maintain social connections, be confident, and increase your optimism! Click here for tips!
- Find purpose in your life. Knowing your purpose and living your life with intention helps to increase your self-awareness.
- Quiet your mind. Overthinking can reduce your self-efficacy and hinder your ability to overcome challenges.
- Accept and adapt to change. You can’t control change; the only thing you can control is your response to it!
- Keep calm under pressure. Stay level-headed by managing your emotional and physical responses to challenging situations.
- Treat challenges as opportunities to grow. Rather than giving up and giving in, using challenges as learning experiences will help you overcome adversity.
- Learn from failure. Life isn’t going to always work out as you’d like it to. Recognizing that you aren’t always going to succeed can help you learn and grow stronger.
- Know how to solve problems in a rational manner. Thinking through problems without getting your emotions too involved can help you identify a sound solution.
- Be proactive, not reactive. Recognize when trouble is ahead and address it before it becomes an overwhelming problem.
- Know when to seek additional help. Accepting that you cannot always deal with something on your own and recognizing when you need to involve others is critical to resilience.
