January 19th
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” - Steve Maraboli
How do you respond to turbulence and tough times?
Turbulence is conflict or confusion that disrupts our plan or peace, resilience is our ability to withstand or recover quickly from turbulence or difficulties, and toughness is our ability to deal with and keep pushing through it.
Resilience and toughness are often used interchangeably, but resilience is our ability to deal with, bounce back from, and adapt after facing adversity, while, toughness is our ability to withstand the pressure and keep going.
Resilience is about adapting, recovering, and finding peace in the middle of storms, while toughness is about enduring, resisting, and fighting the storms.
When we face adversity, we often want to show how tough we are by trying to plow through it. Resilience teaches us to absorb the storm, make peace with the storm, learn the lessons we need to learn from it, and then move on.
Sometimes we need to be tough, and other times we need to be resilient. We have to be tough to keep climbing the ladder of success, but resilience helps us pause, take a step back, and assess what is working and what isn’t so we can renew our energy and find the best way to keep moving forward.
In his book, The Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan wrote, “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
Sometimes you have to fight the wind, and other times you have to adjust to it.
Question of the Day: When you face turbulence, how do you know if you need to be tougher and keep fighting or more resilient and adjust to and manage it?
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