RESILIENCE
“In life, it’s not what happens to you but how you respond that matters.”
TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
Resilience is a commitment to a design, an attitude, and a system that works even when things don’t turn out the way we planned. Especially then.
Instead of designing for the best-case scenario, we make the effort to consider how our work thrives when the best case doesn’t arrive. Because that’s far more likely.
Sailors know that fixing on a point on the horizon is a good way to survive a storm. - Seth Godin
Practicing resilience can happen every day! Resilience is a muscle. Flex it!
Video courtesy @zakmauser
Worksheet:
Thoughts get them out of your head. Make notes. Journal. Write it out.
Successful athletes know that journaling is great help when it comes to tracking goals, monitoring progress, and measuring skill levels against previous seasons. This leads to better mental toughness and improved sports performance.
What did I do well today?
What do I need to work on?
What do I want?
Tool: Face your Fear
Building resilience takes courage, . Slowly and repeatedly do a little bit of the thing that scares you, just in small doses. It’s known as Exposure Therapy and over time fear becomes less overwhelming. Always best to talk through the fear with a coach, teacher or caregiver.
Expand your visual field
Use your vision, by expanded everything you are seeing we are sending a signal to our nervous system that we are safe.
Scan your field of vision, really look at the details of your environment. Notice colors, texture, temperatures all the details you can abosrb.
“I’ve missed over 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the winning game shot and I’ve missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”