Resilience

Focus on What you can control

• Put your energy and effort toward your thoughts attitudes, and actions

• Other people's actions

• Put your energy toward other people's attitudes

• Controlling others

Practice Self-Discipline Daily

• Challenges will never come your way

• Let your emotions take over

• Build inner strength for larger challenges

• Do whatever you feel inside

Treat challenges as training

• View challenges as ways to throw a temper tantram

• View challenges as ways to complain to your friends

• View challenges as ways to cry about your problems

• View challenges as a way to build mental toughness

Accept that things are temporary

• Hard times will last always

• Everything is temporary both good and bad

• Only bad things are temporary

• Nothing good lasts forever

Choose your reactions

• Don't act impulsively

• Do whatever you feel

• You don't need to respond before thinking

• Go with your impulses

Practice Mindfulness

• Don't pay attention to the here and now

• Live in the past

• Take each moment for granted

• Be fully present in each moment

What is the worst that can happen?

• Facing the worst means you will not be prepared

• Lose control of yourself when faced with a challenge

• Prepare yourself mentally for challenges

• Fall apart when something bad happens

Be grateful

• Focus on what you need and what you want

• Focus on what you have not what you don't have

• Focus on the things you want

• Focus on what you don't have

See obstacle as opportunities

• Challenges are opportunities to learn, grow, and become more resilient

• Obstacles should be avoided

• Challenges and obstacles are not growing experiences

• Obstacles can not help you grow

Try not to get attached

• Don't get attached to items, opinions, or outcomes

• Don't get attached your family

• Don't get attached to your pets

• Don't get attached to your loved ones