Some basic concepts for strengthening personal resilience. 1) A Lesson in Resilience 2) Have and Be a Role Model 3) Develop an Internal Locus of Control 4) Edit your Thoughts 5) Take Yourself Lightly

1. Resiliency Basics
Patricia Morgan MA CCC
Solutions for Resilience

2. Resilience means! Ability to handle
adversity
change
loss
poor behaviour . . . of others . . . and sometimes of yourself!

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4. 1) A lesson in
Resilience.

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Stuff happens
My world is spinning!!!

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Some out of your control.
You do not choose.

7. Some in your control.
You choose.

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Sometimes
you
hang on.

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Sometimes you collapse.
Up

10. You Demonstrate RESILIENCE
when you are:
Up
or

11. 2) Have and Be a Role Model.
Have a role model for inspiration.
Be a role model of personal resilience in service of others.

12. Who is your Resilient
Role
Model?
teacher?
parent?
neighbour?
friend?
hero?
Lassie?

13. How did your role model become
stronger in the challenged places?

14. Who is
watching
YOU & might consider YOU their role model?

15. 3) Develop an Internal Locus of Control
With the
Hardy Belief
I am in charge of my life.

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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

17. 4) Edit your Thoughts.

18. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

19. Let
Let’s discuss some dumb thought habits and words.
They lead to jerky
behaviours.

20. gossip
jealousy
criticism
name calling
perfectionism
territorial
contempt
sarcasm
blame
pessimism

21. What do you read?
OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

22. If this were a test for
optimism & pessimism,
which is your tendency?
OPPORTUNITY IS NOW HERE?
OR
OPPORTUNITY IS NOWHERE?

23. 5) Take Yourself Lightly

24. What reasons do you have to smile?

25. Keep track of those reasons to increase your sense of gratitude.

26. Share this message with a friend.
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