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| Choosing Resilience |
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| Written by Ryan |
| Friday, 19 June 2009 12:00 |
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Sign up for Ryan's informative Free e-newsletter on Leadership-Team-High Performance Being resilient means looking through a different lens. We take a different point of view when life throws us a curve ball. Instead of reacting in the same old I-guess-I’m-a-failure way again, we stop making failure personal and instead look for an opportunity in this difficult situation, to be our best. NHL coach Pat Quinn had a sign in his coach`s dressing room when I played for him with the Vancouver Canucks, that read: "A failed project is not a failed person!" Sometimes difficulty forces us to think that we are the problem, when what we need to know is that people throughout history have faced many of the same issues that we are facing now. Choosing not to see it as a personal issue is critical. We must choose to stop the pity party flow and decide to use the situation to energize us and make us Hungry!. Being resilient shows up in the way we choose to act and in the way we focus on finding a solution instead of finding fault. Difficult times invoke two types of responses from us; 1- We can have the classic pity party: How can this be happening to me? How could God allow this to happen in my life? 2- We can allow difficult times to FUEL our HUNGRY spirit, develop our character and challenge us to grow and be better. Successful, resilient people stop themselves when their minds begin to rehearse failure. They reprogram their minds to rehearse the actions or attitudes that will bring success. Rehearse successful outcomes, and know that in the end difficulty brings growth. |