Month: April 2022

4 Key Habits for Resiliency

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4 Key Habits for ResiliencyHow to Become Resilient Image

Habit #1 — Debrief Daily. Before going to bed, think about the ups and downs of your day. This will help you realize your stressors and things that uplifted you. Identifying the triggers will prepare you to deal with them in the future.

Habit #2 — Be Good to Yourself. Discover things that renew and encourage you. Enjoy at least one of them daily (e.g. your pet, exercise routine or spending time with someone special in your life, etc.)

Habit #3 — Live in the Moment. Stop yourself from constantly worrying about the future and pay attention to what is going on right now in your life. Focus on good things happening in the moment.

Habit #4 — Give Thanks. Write down things, people and situations that you are happy about in your life. Do it every day. This activity helps to keep life in perspective.

Resource: Bounce: Living the Resilient Life, by Robert Wicks, PsyD

Developing Your “Gut Instincts”

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Developing Your “Gut Instincts”Trust Your Gut Image

How many times have you had a feeling in your “gut” that you were right about something or that something just wasn’t right? Did you follow it?

Intuition is sometimes called our “higher wisdom” or “intelligence of the heart”. It is knowledge or cognition gained without any rational, intellectual thought or effort.

Harvard business professor, Daniel Isenberg studied a group of leaders in major corporations for the use of intuition on the job. He spent days with them observing as they worked, interviewing them and having them perform various exercises designed to figure out what made them successful.

Isenberg discovered five different ways successful leaders use intuition:

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Are You Outnumbered? E-I-E-I-OH!

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Are You Outnumbered? E-I-E-I-OH!Introvert - Extrovert Image

Everyone has a natural preference for Extroversion and Introversion.

The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung recognized that people have a preferred mode in which they embrace the world. This mode, much like right or left handedness, is inborn and not something that we choose.

Extraverts and introverts differ in what they present to the world and how they recharge.

For extroverts, their natural energies, perceptions and decisions flow outward toward the world of people and things. They are stimulated by their surroundings.

Introverts have natural energies, perceptions and decisions flowing inward toward the world of thought and ideas. Internal processes stimulate the introvert.

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