Do you know that you must practice resilience in your life, if you must survive in this tough world?

Yes!

Unless you practice resilience, you will be blown away by the procession of problems you face in your life.

The day-to-day problems you experience in your life, throws you off balance, doesn’t it?

When the going gets too tough, you feel you will never be able to handle it. Innumerable doubts about your survival plagues you.

You are literally shaken, by the uncertainties you face in your life.

You have work related stress. You are mentally upset by your relationship problems. And you often hold your head in misery, not knowing what to do.

You feel crushed, when the world reacts harshly towards you, just because you are not successful. You wonder dejectedly whether money is the only criterion for respect.

The bitter reality of life, makes your confidence level dip and plunge into the rock bottom.

You feel dejected and gloomy about the tough times in your life, don’t you?

But feeling miserable, will not help you in any way.

Your tough times is a period when you should practice resilience.

Does being resilient mean so much to your life?

Yes!

Do you know why?

Resilience means flexibility, pliability and bounciness.

Without these qualities you do not have a chance to survive in this merciless society.

Why should you practice resilience?

• You will have the capacity to bounce back, even when worst calamity happens in your life, only when you are resilient.
• Resilience makes your extraordinary fighting spirit come to the foray, to battle out your problems.
• You will develop the never –say- die attitude.
• You will have absolute confidence to handle life, in all its harshness.

When you easily buckle under the pressure of problems you face in your life, you can never acquire success. It is a bitter truth, that life is never easy. You undergo many ups and downs in your life journey, which sometimes make you feel shattered and battered – emotionally and psychologically.

When you are facing persistent defeats in your life, you stamp yourself as an utter failure. You assume that you are destined to be a non-entity. This mental attitude will make you a real failure, if you do not practice resilience.

How can you be successful in life, if you do not show your fighting spirit?

Do you know, it is your resilience which makes you mentally strong and assertive?

Resilience is an emphatic way to your success

“I never fear my failures. In fact, the more I fail, the more aggressive I become” I looked surprisingly at my cousin.

I knew my cousin had suffered many personal as well as financial losses in his life. But I had never seen him, downcast or depressed. He always brushed aside his problems, and went on with his life as if nothing had happened.

I knew how disturbed my cousin must be feeling by the traumatic experiences he faced in his life. But he never let it faze him.

How did my cousin face the trauma in his life, so bravely?

He was just being resilient.

That is the spirit you should have.

This is the right attitude towards life.

Shall we now see how to practice resilience in your life?

1. Practice courageous approach to life

Persistent failures should make you more assertive and positive, and not depressed and negative.

Being depressed, makes your life gloomy and miserable.

You might feel downcast by the problems in your life, but you should never show it to the outside world. If you do so, you will be trampled and crushed by this harsh world.

Be courageous, that you will eventually experience success and happiness in your life.

2. Overcome fear

When you fear people, you cannot be resilient. If you observe your life, you will see you spend most of your time fearing people.

You often put people in a pedestal, and feel small before them. This is very wrong way to live yourself. Do not ever short sell yourself.

When you embed pride into your mind, you will never fear people. And resilience, becomes your second nature.

3. Bounce back in life

Just like happiness, resilience is also a mindset.

You mind should always be active and energetic.

Your failures, should only make you think about new ways of going about for your success.

Your rebuffs, should only make you firm to show your worth.

Rejections, should make you more assertive and confident.

If you practice resilience, you will bounce back in your life, even you are cast away as not worthy.

4. Develop the never say die attitude

Have you seen a child?

When he is learning to walk, he will fall down frequently.

But does a child stay fallen down?

No!

He immediately gets up, and tries again and again to walk. He eventually overcomes his fumbling gait, to walk with firmness.

Can you see how resilient a child is?

How is it possible for a small child to be so resilient?

It is because he does not fear anything. He does not know the meaning of failures. He just keeps trying. And he eventually succeeds.

Develop the same never-say-die-attitude, and you will never tire of trying.

5. Understand that problems are part and parcel of life

You often feel buckled down by your personal sorrow and grief.

You feel your world has ended by the sudden loss of your near and dear ones.

Sadly, the world never cares about your grief.

So, do not crumble in agony and defeat your own life. Life never stops for anyone. Bounce back with a vengeance.  You cannot survive, if your grief becomes embedded in your mind.

6. Practice patience

Your problems do not disappear just like that. It takes years before you come out of it. If you are impatient, you will feel that your life is one hell of a torture.

Patience makes you resilient, as you see your life in a new perspective.

7. Do not go into depression

It is a fact, that your problems make you feel your life is not worth living. And there are times, you feel depression engulfing you.

But you cannot afford to be depressive. If you fall into depression, you will only see the negative side of your life. And you will wallow in self-pity thinking, that you are born unlucky.

You just cannot afford to be depressive, as your life is racing past you.

8. Be kind to yourself

Failures do not define you.

Your miserable present, does not forecast your miserable future. And do not think you are an unworthy person, just because you are failing.

Do not feel you are a lesser person, just because you are not as successful as others.

Feel that you are worthy and capable. You will win one day.

9. Look beyond your problems

When you concentrate too much on your problems, you will feel that they are to stay with you. Your life is not all about your problems. There is a life beyond your problems.

When you take an aerial view of your life, you will see that an end to your problems is fast approaching.

10. Control your mind

Do not let your mind feel downcast by the present state of your life. Your mind can imprint your negative thoughts into it.

If your mind does so, it will go into a deep slumber and you will never see the dawn of your life.

It is true that it is very difficult to go on with your life, forgetting the rebuffs, defeats, failures and disappointments you had faced.

Do not worry.

Your failures, rejections and rebuffs are actually stepping stones to your future success. Realize that these negative factors are not there to stay in your life.

They are just a passing phase in your life.

So, control your mind from becoming a breeding house of negative thoughts.

Conclusion

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.”
Elizabeth Edwards

Do you feel to practice resilience you need extraordinary guts?

No!

Life is like a cricket game. Until the last ball is bowled, your failure is not decided, nor is your success denied to you. Play your life game with the aim to win. Never become depressive when you fail.

Many games are won in the last ball.

So, you too can win, if only you practice resilience in your life.