Build or strengthen your resilience with concepts and strategies for stress hardiness and mental flourishing. Discover you are stronger than you think. Ways to thrive with resilience through self-awareness, personal responsibility and gratitude.

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At Work and Home

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Stuff happens

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And happens
Some
in your control
You chose

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And happens
Some
out of your control
You do not choose

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With a 25 question quiz at

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. . . the ability to cope with or
recover from change, loss,
mistakes, adversity or the poor
behavior of others or yourself!

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is like
a Rubber Band at its potential—
stretched, yet flexible and able to
spring back.

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But remember:
We differ in how much strain we
can handle.
Dr. Al Siebert
author of The Resiliency Advantage

9. You demonstrate
when you are:
Up

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Up again, old heart.
said Emerson
I am greater than this experience.

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High?
Low?

12. Malala Yousafzai
Who is your resilient role model?

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Stronger in the Challenged Places
Stronger?
More self-aware,
caring, resourceful,
patient, forgiving,
assertive, flexible
. . .?

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That which does not kill me
makes me stronger.
Wilhelm Nietzsche1844 –1900
German Philosopher

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4. Increase your
INTERNAL Locus of Control

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The last of human freedoms
is one’s ability to choose
one’s attitude in a given set
of circumstances.
Viktor Frankl

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Those who view life and their
response to it as happening to them
have an EXTERNAL Locus of Control
Those who view life and their
response to it as their choice have an
INTERNAL Locus of Control.

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Locus of Control
Belief/Attitude
Internal External
X
Where are you?
Where would you like to be?

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Internal
Honor feelings
External
Feel victimized
√√√

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Internal
Feel empowered
External
√√√
Feel powerless

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Internal External
√√√
Get StuckExpect Up and
Downs

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Internal
Think
Optimistically
External
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Think
Pessimistically

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Internal
Seek solutions
External
√√√
Blame

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What is your
“favourite” role?
Your 2nd ?
Victim
RescuerPersecutor
Avoid the Drama Triangle

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Click for more on
Relationship Drama Part 1
Relationship Drama Part 2

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Avoid thinking or saying:
You make me crazy.
You make me angry.
You make me sick and tired.
You make me (you fill in the blank).

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I make me!
And you make you!

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What 3 or 4 words do you see?

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Woes: Internal and External
Yours?

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Name Your feeling
When I think about my challenge I feel . . .

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Do you need to strengthen your:
self-protection ?
self-nurturing ?
communication ?
action ?
connections ?

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It is important to Self- Protect
O Canada,
we stand on guard for thee.
Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier

35. It is important to Self-Nurture
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my
favourite things
And then I don't feel so bad!
Oscar Hammerstein

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It is important to Communicate
Try to see it my way,
Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?
While you see it your way
Run the risk of knowing that our love may
soon be gone.
We can work it out. We can work it out.
John Lennon

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It is important to Take Action
The ants go marching one by one.
Hoorah! Hoorah!
The ants go marching one by one.
Hoorah! Hoorah!
The ants go marching one by one;
The little one stops to suck his thumb,
And they all go marching down into the
ground
To get out of the rain.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!

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It is important to Connect
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there,
You've got a friend.
James Taylor

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Each
Based on
From Woe to WOW
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