Everyone is talking about resilience these days, but what exactly does resilience mean Reader ?
Does it mean getting the most from your resources?
Squeezing the last drop of energy out of your body then going further?
Or does it mean dragging yourself, exhausted, towards the summer break?
What’s most familiar to you? What’s your flavour?
Are you holding on, gritting your teeth, limping thirstily towards the vacation that’s appearing like a mirage in the haze on the horizon?
In the stress, overwork and overwhelm of deadlines and decisions it seems normal to double down and just get on with it right? You can always recuperate during the break. Resilient you!
Except if you’re spending the first half of your vacation recuperating then the second half of your holiday won’t be enough to keep sustained energy levels for the projects to come.
What would it be like for you to live your resilience differently so you can begin your summer break centred and even energised rather than exhausted? Yep – even with 41% of the world going to election. Even with the cuts in funding for your projects. Even with all the challenges a complex world can bring. Can you imagine that?
To do so, you’ll have to change the meaning of resilience in your mind. And develop it differently.
Rather than making it about your capacity to endure more burden or stress to be more productive. It can be about thriving.
When you redefine resilience, you’ll still have deadlines, decisions and difficulties – and a summer break! But your relationship to them will be different. That’s the difference between you having a vacation you’re looking forward to from a place of balance and energy, and a vacation you’re dying to arrive at so you can get away from the grind and refuel before the next onslaught.
The impact of that first week of holidays, on you and others is very different.
Which one do you want to choose?
If you want to choose balance and energy but can’t see how with everything you have to do before the end of June.
Stay tuned next week and you’ll find out how!
We’ve got something for you that will change the way you experience your summer break that everyone will thank you for, including yourself!
Love,
Angela
Wild Spirit Leadership
