My first Publication The Creative Space November 2019 | Page 3

Topic
“The resilient carry
an attitude of faith
that all things will
work out in their
favor because
they deeply believe
in the value and
worth of who
they are, what
they have to offer,
what their goals
are, and the
importance of
their overall life
purpose.”
Dr. Sherrie
Campbell is the
author
of “Loving
Yourself: The
Mastery of
Being Your
Own Person ”
and “Success
Equations: A
Path to an
Emotionally
Wealthy Life”,
both available
on Amazon.com
What we’re talking about here, is RESILIENCY, which the Webster-
Merriam dictionary describes as, “an ability to recover from or adjust
easily to adversity or change.”
The resilient among us are easy to spot – they’re the ones who refuse to give
up even in the face of devastating loss or challenges.
According to former navy seal and author Eric Greitens,
“Entrepreneurs choose a life of hardship. They choose a life that will
hopefully be marked by joy, achievement, laughter, and satisfaction, but
will also inevitably be marked by confusion, chaos, change, fear, and
disappointment. This is true of everyone’s lives, of course, but the
entrepreneur chooses a life in which he or she is very likely to have higher
highs and lower lows, in which the peaks of joy and troughs of dread are
likely to be more vivid than if he or she made a safer choice.”
The question is, what are the qualities of resiliency? What
makes you become resilient? Can someone be born with the
resilient gene, or can it be developed?
I can’t say with any certainty one way or the other, but here below, are 3
major qualities of resiliency/resilient people:
1. They respect themselves
It’s difficult to become self-reliant if you constantly rely on
other people for your sense of worth. This means that we must
become our “own best friend” and soothe ourselves when the going
gets tough, regardless of the circumstances, and especially when things
become stressful. To some extent, this taps into the “fake it till you
make it” concept, but essentially what it requires is that we maintain
our composure, as we tap into our sense of self - and use it as our
motivation to continue pressing forward.
2. They are driven.
Resilient people are never perceived as needy, desperate or
even overly reactive. They have a relaxed attitude and view rejection
as a new opportunity (or at the very least, as a way to pivot). When faced
with challenges/challenging situations, they don’t get down - in fact,