There are many ways individuals can develop their own resilience. The following may be some useful steps to consider for those who want to develop and enhance their resilience.
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Give yourself the right to renew. If you just keep driving ahead, you are not being resilient, you are just surviving. Even when you think you do not have the time to do it, make the time, as renewal is essential for growth. You need to give yourself the opportunity to adapt and recover, so you are able to deal with the challenges ahead.
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Understand how you are resilient. There are a number of techniques and approaches that can be used to enhance your resilience. Every individual will have differing preferences, strengths and motivations. Therefore, you will need to identify what techniques work for you. Nevertheless, if you can understand how you are resilient, you can focus on the techniques that will have the biggest impact on your development.
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Deploy focused effort. Talent alone does not create success and neither does change happen without concerted effort. Therefore, despite resilience being something that can be developed, it is not something that will happen passively, it is something that requires time, effort and personal resources. This effort can potentially carve out neural pathways that help us develop and over time become useful habits.