Resiliency

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“There are no failures–just experiences and your reactions to hem.” -Tom Krause

“Human beings are capable of worry and rumination: we can take a minor thing, blow it up in our heads, run through it over and over, and drive ourselves crazy until we feel like that minor thing is the biggest thing that ever happened. In a sense, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Frame adversity as a challenge, and you become more flexible and able to deal with it, move on, learn from it, and grow. Focus on it, frame it as a threat, and a potentially traumatic event becomes an enduring problem; you become more inflexible, and more likely to be negatively affected.” -excerpt from New Yorker article, “How People Learn to Become Resilient” by Maria Konnikova

Resiliency starts with perception. How we perceive the events in our lives frames our attitude about them, which then determines our outcome.

If you want to be more resilient, start by looking at everything that happens to you as conspiring to get you to the place you want to be.

Don’t worry about the how.

Just trust that you will.

And that one day, you’ll look back and know that it was all for the best.

P.S. – This excellent New Yorker article on resiliency.

P.P.S. – “Good.”