Learn How To Be More Resilient and Confident
as You Move Through Transition
These articles and video conversations share insights and ideas about how to be more resilient and confident.
When the world turns upside down, these are qualities that will serve you well as you move through and beyond a life transition.
Have you watched someone go through a traumatic experience, a terrible life event that happened without warning. And, did you notice that they came through it stronger than ever? That’s resilience.
Have you listened to the news or read a story about someone who faced tragedy and turned it into an opportunity to become a better person? Another example of resilience, with some confidence thrown in. There are more of these stories within this category.
Conquering Self-Doubt and Becoming More Confident
Everyone has times in their life when they feel incapable and incompetent, but some feel that way more often than others. Might this be you? Are you so busy putting yourself down that you fail to realize that you’re doing it? That’s no way to thrive. It can get...
Resilience Skills: 7 Things You Need to Know When the Going Gets Tough
Bouncing back from tough times requires resilience skills. And that takes learning to manage thoughts, responses, and actions to your life events. It takes confidence that the choices you make are good ones. Managing your emotions and feeling confident may be a...
13 Ways to Give Your Self-Esteem a Boost
Low self-esteem can cause a vicious cycle that makes you feel worse and worse. Feeling badly about yourself can lead you to feel unmotivated to change what is making you feel down in the first place. If you don’t change the root cause of your negative feelings, then...
9 Ways to Find Your Inner Strength When the Going Gets Tough
Experiencing challenging times in life can test your mettle. Plus, it can take grit and courage to muster the inner strength to move forward.So let me ask you, when you encounter bumps in the road, how do you react? Are you able to deal effectively with adversity and...
9 Professional Values That Keep Harmony In Your Life & Your Goals On Track
You might wonder how professional values can keep your life in harmony. What about personal values? Aren’t those more essential? The truth is, both kinds of values make for a powerful combination. In your career, you might think that professionalism and a strong work...
11 Life Hacks to Help You Develop Resilience to Stress
Stress—that physical or emotional tension we feel in response to something that happens. Some manage it well, some not so much. Since we live in a world filled with rapid change, and much of it is not in our control, there are many opportunities to get tense, worried,...
How to Build Resilience When Facing Tons of Uncertainty About The Future
Mother said there would be days like this! The song was right, but she never told me to expect a pandemic! When life as we know it changes, it is human nature to react out of fear and doubt about what will happen next. Bouncing back, being flexible, and recovering...
Persistence Is The Key To Creating Lasting Change
As I think about all the changes we have had to accept recently, it makes my heart hurt. First, it was the COVID-19 pandemic, which was followed by the civil unrest due to racial police actions in several states. Change is upon us. What is clear to me is change...
The Simplest Way to Build a Resilient Mindset During COVID-19 And Beyond
Clarity, foresight, and knowing when we can move about the cabin again, is what we all crave in this COVID-19 world. With all the doubt in our minds and worry in our hearts, it is no wonder we’re feeling a bit out of control. Having a resilient mindset is key to...
How To Restore Confidence In Yourself After You Feel Like You Let Yourself Down
Disappointing others is bad enough, but when you let yourself down, the effect can be devastating. And, it can brew into a storm of self-doubt. It may feel as if you failed, which takes you down a notch or two—or three. You may begin to believe the inner voices that...
Resiliency in the Face of Adversity: 6 Ways to Become More Resilient
How many times have you watched someone else go through a traumatic experience, like the loss of a limb or the loss of a child—terrible life events that happened without warning—and they seemingly came through it stronger than ever? That’s resiliency in the face of...
Overcoming Rejection & Finding Hope When Life Feels Like A Roller Coaster Of Challenges
UGH! Rejection! Nobody escapes it. And, overcoming rejection isn’t always easy. For most people, it’s a part of life, including mine. Let me count the ways rejection has shown up for me (and these are just a few): never getting the lead role in my high school...