The hotel I stayed in Sunday night was remodeling. They put me in the new area. Nice. I could tell the difference when I stepped off the old carpet and onto the new at the new end of the hallway.
The new carpet had bounce.
The fancy word for bounce is resilience.
Resilience – the capacity to spring back, rebound, and successfully adapt in the face of adversity.
Investing in yourself as a person is one of the keys for resilience:
Ways resilient people take care of themselves personally include:
- Giving of self in service to others and/or a cause
- Good life skills: decision making, assertiveness, impulse control, problem solving
- Sociability; ability to be a friend; ability to form positive relationships
- Sense of humor
- Internal focus of control , Autonomy/independence
- Positive view of one’s personal future
- Flexibility
- Capacity and desire for learning
- Self-motivation, Personal competence
- Feelings of self-worth and self-confidence