In your everyday life, you may sometimes notice discouragement and feelings of weakness that attack your mind, trying to force you to withdraw from achieving your goals for that particular day. Today, I want to talk about resilience in daily life. First, you will understand the true meaning of resilience and learn why applying it in your life journey is essential.
It doesn’t matter what your area of expertise is; you could be an entrepreneur, a civil servant, a clergy person, or an entertainer. Today, I will bring you up to speed and open your eyes to how you can use the power of resilience to overcome life’s challenges. I am excited about today’s topic, and I know you are too. So, are you ready? Let’s dive in.
What Is Resilience?
Many writers and even motivational speakers have defined resilience in different ways. Similarly, the Oxford dictionary defines resilience as the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties. The Cambridge dictionary says it is the quality of being strong and not easily broken or damaged. Forme, resilience is all about being strong and determined to go for whatever you have set your eyes on and achieve it against all odds.
When I say against all odds, you should go for it regardless of your family’s financial background, financial status, current location, and even your health condition. You would wonder why I said ‘even your health condition’. Let me give you a little bit of a heads-up here:
Do you know that most of the time, the sickness that comes to you and makes it difficult for you to work hard and achieve your dreams could be nothing but a projected ill health condition that was sent to your body to weaken your mind and distract you from achieving your life plans and goals? You should know this by now, so you must activate resilience in everyday life. In the subsequent subheadings, I will explain why we need resilience daily.
So, having said this, I also want you to know that all you need to overcome this and live the life of your dreams is nothing but mental toughness. You can read more on how to achieve mental toughness here.
Why is it essential to cultivate resilience in our daily lives?
The holy book states that “faith without works is dead.” I think this is to say that resilience is faith in action. Yes, that is it. If not, how do you apply faith? Since faith is having trust, confidence, and assurance in God, you also exercise your faith when you apply resilience as a human being. Let me state it categorically that faith and resilience work hand in hand.
Many people have abandoned their dreams and goals today because they lack resilience in everyday life. They do not understand the concept of strength in adversity and dignity in labour.
The truth is that we all face challenges and obstacles in our daily life activities. These challenges could come in the form of ill health, financial incapacity, and lack of proper information, which leads to few or no ideas. I can continue mentioning them.
But it doesn’t matter which one you are facing at the moment or even if you are facing all of them. All you need to do now is decide never to quit or give up. That is what resilience and applying resilience in everyday life are all about.
Tough times will come in different ways and forms, but if you decide, they will never stop you from achieving your goal.
How to improve your personal resilience journey
The act of resilience is a product of a burning desire and a genuine hunger for success and growth. Therefore, you must be genuinely hungry for success and development before you can activate resilience in your day-to-day activities as a human being.
Some people believe that just their daily bread is all they need to be happy, while others want abundance and real wealth. So it’s all a matter of choice. It’s all about what you want. It’s all about the life you have chosen to live.
On the other hand, many people desire wealth and abundance; they want it so badly that they feel like closing their eyes and opening them to see themselves in abundance. Yes, that is how they pray and hope to become rich and wealthy.
One funny thing about this group is that they believe one can become rich by luck or a miracle. They don’t believe in hard work; they are too lazy to work, hoping and dreaming that money will fall from heaven daily.
At the same time, another group of people also desires wealth and abundance and are always ready to work hard for it. So they search for books, audio tapes, and videos to help them learn how to achieve their goals. That is when they will begin to gain knowledge of the concept of resilience and the beauty of everyday life challenges.
I am sure that you, who are reading this post now, are also here because you want to learn and understand resilience, which is essential for success and living your dream life.
Summary
Life can be tough; it is never easy. Maybe you have done all you could and tried all you know to make it in life, but what about what you don’t know? All I can tell you is that you should continue seeking knowledge. Keep learning, and do not stop learning.
Be resilient enough not to let these momentary and temporal setbacks and distractions discourage or prevent you now. You can see already that you have gone too far in life to stop or quit now.
Always remember that success only comes through hard work, mental toughness, determination, prayer, and resilience. So keep being resilient. I will see you in my next post!
