Resilience is hard-wired into us.
It’s as core to being human as the ability to think and dream.
We wouldn’t be here without it. Generation after generation before us overcame difficulties and challenges that led to us being here.
So if you don’t count yourself as one of the particularly resilient, just look at what it took for you to be here reading this and you’ll realize that resiliency very much runs in your blood.
Sometimes we’re forced to be resilient, like when a loved one unexpectedly passes away or a job or relationship comes to an end.
Those moments feel like survival.
But underneath that survival is strength; strength we likely won’t recognize as such until that period of life is behind us.
And sometimes we put ourselves in the position of needing to be resilient.
These are the moments when we build our own prison.
We let the booze slip for a day, and then a week, and then a month. We skip a workout or ten. We do the things we intellectually understand we shouldn’t be doing, and avoid the things we know we should be.
This type of resiliency needed is more subtle. It’s day to day life.
Whether our resiliency is forced upon us or whether it’s a product of our own creation, the task required is still the same.
Come back better.
Set the ego aside and do the work.
Dial in, one action at a time.
Sometimes the only path forward is through the shit. By putting one foot in front of the other, that resiliency proves to be our biggest strength.
Bounce, don’t break.
If you find value in the things I publish here, it’d mean the world if you’d share it with someone else. It’s the only way this space and community continues to grow.
✌️ and ❤️,
Adam Griffin