Name: How to Bounce Back from Hard Times
Uploaded: 2024-04-29T12:24:05.000Z
Duration: 9 min 34 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Past perfect

Not everything we attempt or wish for will materialize the way we'd hoped.

But seeing failure and adversity as part of the process can help put things into perspective.

Business woman Arianna Huffington said, “We need to accept that we won't always make

the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - - understanding that failure

is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”

Being resilient is not necessarily something you're born with, but you CAN learn it.

Even if you didn't have the environment or opportunity to build skills of resilience

But what can you do to learn to bounce back from difficult situations?

The 7 C's of Resilience In a study on teaching resilience to youth,

Human development expert, Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, identified 7 components that help build resilience.

• Control This program was meant to encourage parents

to teach children how to handle stressful situations early in life, but has expanded

Using the 7 C's of Resilience might help people of all ages and situations develop

the skills needed to handle all types of challenges that may occur.

Let's take a look at how this addresses the building blocks of greater resilience.

Competence Competence is having the ability to deal with

We're not born knowing how to take care of things, but it can be learned over time.

Knowing how to do things boosts self-esteem.

The combination of training, skills, experience, and knowledge can lead to the ability to perform

The more success you have, the more you feel encouraged to try new things.

Recognize when you do something well, and build on that.

When you feel competent to address challenging situations, and develop a history of dealing

with things as they come up, you may feel less stress about it.

And that leads us to the next “C”, which is...

Confidence Believing in yourself can give you the extra

boost you need when things are difficult.

And when you have developed the skills and abilities to deal with challenges, you may

see failure or adversity as a setback that can be overcome.

Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

Having confidence in your own power and judgment can make situations less overwhelming.

Take care of yourself and believe in your ability to bounce back.

Connection Knowing you are not alone during difficult

When you're facing failure or adversity, a strong support system is a big help.

Whether you need someone to talk to, extra resources, or feedback on what went wrong,

connections can help you clarify the situation and provide support.

Close ties with family, friends, and your community can offer an extra layer of stability

By having a sense of belonging, people tend to make better choices, have feelings of self-worth,

Feeling lonely or isolated can lead to depression.

But knowing people are there for you in times of need can minimize the effects of life's

Psychologist Dr. John Townsend stated, “Connecting with others during difficult times makes the

Character When you experience failure or adversity,

your true character can often rise to the surface, and influence your words and actions.

Think about who you are and how you act, and ask yourself if this is your best version

Teaching young children right from wrong at an early age can carry through to lifelong

These principles can help follow a moral compass during difficult times.

It can be easy to become frustrated when things are not going the way you think they should.

Sometimes people might feel pressured or so disappointed that they make rash and unreasonable

If you have carefully cultivated your character throughout your life, those thoughts that

direct your decisions, can be counted on to make your best choices.

Having a sense of self worth and positive values can keep you from spiraling down the

Even if you were not taught to think in positive, constructive ways as a child, it's never

too late to work on self improvement skills.

Greek Philosopher Heraclitus wrote, “The content of your character is your choice.

Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”

When you become and act with integrity, honesty and perseverance, you may find the challenges

of failure and adversity are overcome more easily.

Contribution Being part of something bigger than yourself

can help you think about more than your own problems.

Partly because helping others feels good, and partly because helping others makes it

When you experience failure, you gain a sense of what that feels like, and may help someone

When adversity strikes, helping someone else get back on their feet may teach you something

You may realize your place in the world, and the fact that you have the power to make a

Albert Einstein stated, “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

If you find yourself dealing with failure, you might be surprised how much you or someone

Reframing your failure to become something of value that creates a “lesson learned”,

might turn out to be a contribution to a bigger solution.

Coping Sometimes just figuring out a way to cope

with whatever just happened, can be a challenge in itself.

Failure and adversity can be hard pills to swallow.

And sometimes you just need to take a break.

Stress reduction is probably one of the first things that come to mind when facing difficult

Doing nothing can actually be a sound strategy.

Give your brain time to switch from “fight or flight” thinking, to something more rational.

Subtitles ListPlay Video

How to Bounce Back from Hard Times

figure

overwhelming

resilience

situation