Being Resilient
Every day brings challenges to careers, family, finances, and health. Build your resilience to withstand the bad things and appreciate the good. Below are strategies for building resilience in your daily life. For more tips, read articles about being mindful, cultivating resilience, inspiring examples, overcoming obstacles, and relieving stress. Also consult the resilience resources at websites maintained by Everyday Health, Harvard, NRRC, and WebMD.
Resilience Strategies
Understand Yourself
Adopt strategies for responding to it. Build on your skills, strengths, and talents.
Adopt strategies for responding to it. Build on your skills, strengths, and talents.
Control Yourself
Use stress-reduction techniques like concentrated breathing, focused mindfulness, and closing eyes to focus.
Use coping strategies like journaling, reframing thoughts, exercising, spending
time outdoors, socializing, improving sleep hygiene, and tapping into creative
outlets.
Be Happy
People who are more optimistic tend to feel more in control of their outcomes. To build optimism, focus on what you can do when faced with a challenge, and identify positive, problem-solving steps that you can take.
Stay Social
Build on your existing friendships and develop new ones. Use in-person meetings in addition to social media.
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