The word “resilient” is being tossed around by a lot of experts these days.
The American consumer is resilient.
The economy is resilient.
The stock market is resilient.
The housing market is resilient.
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines resilience this way:
- a: capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture
- b: tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change
But what about you?
How easily do you recover or adjust to misfortune or change?
One thing that’s clear is that we need to cultivate resilience. If anything, the pace of change is going to accelerate. It’s touching every aspect of our lives; there’s no getting away from it.
How you manage change is a major factor in how resilient you are.
To be fair, I don’t think anyone could have anticipated what’s going on in the world right now, and how disrupted nearly every aspect of society seems to be. We’ve been somewhat blindsided by all of it. It’s harder to be resilient when you are caught unprepared.
It helps to know your options. The Changing Course method can help you discover some you may not have known you had. Even if you’re not faced with needing to think differently about how you earn a living, the concepts in Thinking Outside the Job Box can help you think differently about other aspects of your life as well.
Especially the “what do you have” and “who wants what you have” parts.
Understanding that you have skills and assets that can be utilized to change course if needed, and being able to spot opportunities that are in alignment is one of the best ways to cultivate resiliency.
