Resilience #1 Room of Requirement

Attitude is important, of course, but action matters more.  To put it bluntly, taking steps to improve your lot, results in lots more opportunities for improvement.  Adopting an alternative perspective might help you see things differently, but so does wearing your best friend’s glasses.  

Changing the reality of a situation is the only real way of making a material difference, translating the right attitude into action.  It’s what this newsletter is all about.  Yes, it’s words, but underpinned by a call to action that speaks far more loudly.  Let’s call it a wake-up call.

Resilience helps.  We get by.  To do just enough and keep our head above water during turbulent times.  To keep on keeping on.  Only life should be about more than just survival.  It beats the alternative, of course, but surely there must be more to it than this?  Life should feel a bit more, well… lively?!  Resilience 2.0 helps us upgrade from surviving to thriving, cultivating the thoughts, behaviours and actions that create actual sustainable change for the better.  To make a difference rather than just thinking about it.

For starters, we need to stop pretending.  All of us, by dint of the modern world, will have something that doesn’t quite sit well.  An aspect of life; home, work, health, finances, relationships, that we’re uncomfortable with.  That doesn’t mean you’re failing, just that you’re human.  By all means pretend otherwise, and that nagging feeling might just go away.  Might.

Alternatively, lay your cards on the table.  Let’s see what you’re dealing with.

What one thing would you like to change for the better?

Think about it, write it down somewhere.  Be honest with yourself.  The hardest part of determining to change is often the determining bit.  Once you admit there’s room for improvement the resources appear; you manifest your very own individual room-of-requirement.  Your room for improvement.

We’ll do the rest together.  Until next time.