You Can Develop Resilience to Willpower Fatigue
Willpower is necessary to reach goals. Yet we can experience willpower fatigue. Read how the research helped me maximize my limited amount of willpower.
Personal Resilience
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Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry – Book Summary
When I attended a presentation by leadership trainer and author, Joan McArthur-Blair, the room was packed. The audience members were primarily career counselors. McArthur-Blair is the co-author (along with Jeanie Cockell) of the book, Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness. I was pleased to buy a copy of […]
12 Ways to Create Meaning from Painful Situations
As a therapist, I witness people whose lives have fallen apart or have become unbearable to continue as is. I often hear the simple but dreadfully difficult question to answer, “Why?” People naturally long to create meaning from their emotional pain. Resilience is called upon when we face tough situations. We want to bounce back, […]
How to Boost Your Resilience: Assess Your Protective Factors
Many of us have moved from saying “Woe is me” to “WOW! I survived and I am even thriving.” We could ask ourselves, “Where did my resiliency develop? And if it did not develop in childhood, when did it develop?” If you do not identify yourself as being resilient to challenges, you may not recognize […]
Dozens of Famous and Powerful Resilience Quotes
We love quotations as they are like nuggets of gold; pure thoughts that can improve our thinking, self-perception, and worldview. Enjoy these resilience quotes.
Why and How to Find a Healthy Role Model
Leaders know. Those who hire business coaches know. Big Brothers and Sisters know. They know our lives are influenced by other people and we can speed being and doing our best when we choose resilient and healthy role models. Yet, many of us give little thought to the idea of having role models. There is […]
What Makes Us the Way We Are? Discover Parts of Yourself
An audience member wrote: “I want to learn more about understanding what makes us the way we are.” Hmm, as in what makes us human or what makes us different than others? I wasn’t sure how to start my return email and, yet, I did. Here is my attempt: The Chicken or Egg Theory The […]
Be in Integrity at Work and in Life
The French playwrite, Moliere, said, “It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
Resilience to the Ups and Downs in Life
My last month has included a number of significant and insignificant ups and downs. They happen to me, to you and most of us. People say “the ups and downs of life.” Right? But let’s call them downs and UPs. That feels better to complete the cycle on a resilient uplift! Don’t you agree? There […]
12 Easy Ways to Build Your Resilience at Work
To have resilience at work often takes a concerted effort. Resilience helps you manage typical workplace challenges such as: personality differences bullying micro-management being blamed poor leadership criticism demands on your time lack of childcare personal issues such as depression, anger, lack of stress management skills or illness. Here are 12 effective ways to enhance your […]
What Resilient People Know and Do to Develop Their Grit
In some ways, all of us are resilient people. Yet, there are some people who prove obvious and high resiliency. You know! Those people who when you hear their story you ask, “How did they do it?” Examples of famous and highly resilient people include Nelson Mandela, The 14th Dala Lama, and Malala Yousafzai. Of course, there […]
Calgary, Alberta: A Resilient Community
Between June 20 and 30, 2013 over seventy-five thousand Calgarians were evacuated from their homes in over 20 neighbourhoods. Many in southern Alberta communities such as Siksika First Nation, High River, and Canmore were also affected.