Rising Up With Resilience

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and toughness.  Many of us think we have it, some haven’t yet found it and others are stuck in it trying to revert to a pre-crisis status that no longer available to us.  The good news is we can all find it, come unstuck from it and rise up with it. 

83% of us poll as having a high level of resilience but after screening only 57% of us actually do.  You can go online and do tests to measure your level of resilience but today I will quickly cover the 7 pillars of health and wellbeing that when in balance put you in a strong position of resilience.

What are the 7 Pillars of resilience?
There are 7 fundamental pillars in our existence:  Occupational – our study or work, Intellectual – our creativity, skills, and culture, Physical – our nutrition, exercise, and sleep practices, Mental – our mind and self-talk, Emotional – our voluntary and involuntary responses, Social – our self-imposed societal positioning, and Spiritual – our purpose.

How do the pillars affect our resilience?
When we have all 7 of our pillars balanced, we are optimally positioned in resilience, if 1 or 2 of the pillars become compromised or neglected, we remain in balance albeit with a lesser but still strong level of resilience, but with each compromised pillar comes less balance and ever decreasing resilience. 

What does this all mean?
What this means is that if we are optimally or mostly in balance when we are ‘thunderstruck’ or stricken with a great surprise we are in a strong position to rise-up with resilience and return to our pre-crisis positioning.  However, the challenge many of us are facing today is that our pre-crisis position is no longer an option and our ‘worlds’ need to be reimagined and rebuilt requiring us to execute an extended state of resilience and this is proving difficult for many business owners and leaders. 

Bolstering business resilience is one of the key strategies in our bespoke service offerings alongside exploring opportunities to elevate your employee engagement, improve your productivity, increase your profitability, and grow your market share so I invite you to reach out to us today.