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Step Up & Bounce Back
Resilience
- The positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe
- Also indicate a characteristic of resistance to future negative events
Resilient People
- Believe they can directly influence the events that occur in their lives and translate their beliefs into actions
- More likely to see change as an opportunity for growth rather than a stressor
- Able to derive meaning from failure
- Learned how to stop their anxiety and doubts from overwhelming them
Factors that promote resilience
- Optimism
- Ability to cope with stress
- holding the belief that there is something you can do to manage your feelings
- having social support
- use humour
Ways to Build Resilience
- Keep things in perspective
- Take decisive actions
- Help people and get help from people
- Anticipate and accept changes
- Nurture a +ve view of self
- Work towards goals
- Maintain a hopeful outlook
- Take care of yourself
- Learn from your experience
- Learn new things about yourself
Summary - Resilience involves
- Letting yourself experience strong emotions and also realizing when you may need to avoid experiencing them at times in order to continue functioning
- Stepping forward and taking action to deal with your problems and meet the demands of daily living, and also stepping back to rest and re-energize yourself
- Spending time with loved ones to gain support and encouragement
- Relying on others, and also relying on yourself
- The positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe
- Also indicate a characteristic of resistance to future negative events
Resilient People
- Believe they can directly influence the events that occur in their lives and translate their beliefs into actions
- More likely to see change as an opportunity for growth rather than a stressor
- Able to derive meaning from failure
- Learned how to stop their anxiety and doubts from overwhelming them
Factors that promote resilience
- Optimism
- Ability to cope with stress
- holding the belief that there is something you can do to manage your feelings
- having social support
- use humour
Ways to Build Resilience
- Keep things in perspective
- Take decisive actions
- Help people and get help from people
- Anticipate and accept changes
- Nurture a +ve view of self
- Work towards goals
- Maintain a hopeful outlook
- Take care of yourself
- Learn from your experience
- Learn new things about yourself
Summary - Resilience involves
- Letting yourself experience strong emotions and also realizing when you may need to avoid experiencing them at times in order to continue functioning
- Stepping forward and taking action to deal with your problems and meet the demands of daily living, and also stepping back to rest and re-energize yourself
- Spending time with loved ones to gain support and encouragement
- Relying on others, and also relying on yourself
Monday, March 2, 2009
Funny Quote (Dun even try to rationalize it if you dun play SF)
"You can call me hadoken because i am DOWN + RIGHT + FIERCE"
Sunday, March 1, 2009
DOSE: Yangshuo
The dates are firmed. I am heading up to Yangshuo from 27 Mar to 6 Apr. This essentially means that i have only 4 weeks left to train for the trip. Heres the plan
Wk1: Boulder x 2, PE x 1
Wk2: PE x 4
Wk3: PE x 3
Wk4: PE x 1 + REST!!!!
I also need to remind myself 2 things DURING the trip:
1) NO PROJECTS
2) NO ALCOHOL
PUSHER
Wk1: Boulder x 2, PE x 1
Wk2: PE x 4
Wk3: PE x 3
Wk4: PE x 1 + REST!!!!
I also need to remind myself 2 things DURING the trip:
1) NO PROJECTS
2) NO ALCOHOL
PUSHER
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