Resilience is having the ability to bend with change and when I am working on building emotional resilience within myself, I am reminded of Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous serenity prayer:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
I have found it best to start in small ways. Almost every day, I try to examine what has happened and why. Not in an overly analytical way, but in a way that makes me more aware of my responses and behaviors. One way … Read More