What is Resilience? Resilience is the ability to bounce back, know how to cope with setbacks, learn how to manage yourself and your resources, it is also the ability to function in times of stress, recover, adapt and change. However, do we know what skills we need to pick ourselves back up. Why do we need to develop resilience? Without this skill, it is easy to give up, this could apply to any area of life, study, career or sport. One of the skills for developing resilience is perseverance, it is defined as the continued effort to keep going. Where do we start? You can start by building your mental resilience through enhancing your health and well-being.
Some simple steps to start with are: to improve your physical health by eating well and exercising, develop your sleeping habits, incorporate meditation through mindfulness, celebrate your successes and achievements. This is fine when everything is going well, but what about when something comes along to throw us off course? Compare this to a gymnast balancing on a beam, how many times do they wobble and fall? It is only with determination through getting back on the beam, pushing through with persistence will they achieve their objectives and advance to perform a complex routine.
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