Resilience: Changing Challenging Moments Into Positive Ones

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Resilience

Resilience means to bounce back, recover from setbacks, adversities, stress, challenges, and difficult experiences with strength, flexibility, and maintaining well-being despite the difficulties.

Tips to Building Resilience

• Positive Self-belief: Having the confidence in yourself and your ability to develop determination to bounce back from adversity.
• Purpose: Feeling that you have a goal that’s meaningful.
• Positivity: Maintaining a positive attitude, optimism, positive mindset, taking proactive, strategic actions to stay motivated, uplifted, and have a positive perspective to overcome the situation.
• Persistent: Being determined, flexible, adapting new skills and strategies as are necessary to accomplish your goal or vision.

By focusing on these areas, one is able to handle stress and adversity with inner strength and a positive perspective.

Change Negative Self-talk Into Constructive Action

What you say to yourself is important and makes a difference to outcome — negative or positive.

Here are some positive phrases and words you can say to yourself during challenging times: (Write them in your journal and say them aloud.)

• I can get through anything
• I am getting pass this
• The resources I need are present to me
• I move forward with confidence (Even if you don’t feel it yet, say it.)
• I have overcome challenges before, and I will overcome this one
• I am getting better and progressing forward
• I handle this with inner strength

One-Word Motivation

Use these one-word positive expressions in the moments that are challenging, as positive energy to project into your day, and as single-word meditation to repeat as you go through the activities of your day:

• Focused
• Calm
• Better
• Strength
• Forward
• Accomplished

Motivational Quotes for Resilience

Here are some motivational quotes that can inspire strength and perseverance in challenging times:

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

— Nelson Mandela

Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

— Yasmin Mogahed

Everyone experience tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

— Lakshmi Mittal

Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back from the most difficult time….Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.

— Ping Fu

Mastering the art of resilience does much more than restore you to who you once thought you were. Rather, you emerge from the experience transformed into a truer expression of who you were really meant to be.

— Carol Orsborn

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

Affirmation for Resilience

These affirmations may be said individually, especially at the moments when you’re feeling difficulty, or said as a whole all together as a daily meditation during challenging times. You can also write them in your journal.

This challenging moment is my opportunity for better.

The resources I need are present to me.

I let go of doubt, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty.

All things are working together for good for me.

I have inner strength constantly helping me to a good outcome.

I am calm, focused, and secure.

I have clarity and certainty. I am strengthened every step of the way to the better good for me.

I step into the good that’s for me now.

A Positive Perspective

Having resilience is to move forward despite the difficulty — moving beyond the circumstance — adapting a growth perspective — turning obstacles into opportunities, and then realizing how much stronger you’ve grown every step of the way.

Resilience is not just surviving. It’s creating, transforming, and progressively uplifting yourself with inner strength and maintaining a positive perspective.

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