Mental toughness is no good without resilience

Too often, in my opinion, Mental Toughness is seen as “keep going regardless”.

A number of sporting icons have recently made the great choice to pause, reflect and take a step away to ensure their wellbeing benefits - this is more of a Resilient mindset.

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How to handle mixed messages as ‘freedom day’ looms

As we’re approaching “Freedom Day” with mixed messages, feelings and thoughts about the best course of action for ourselves and others.

Once again, being Resilient will help you with any decisions that you will want to make.

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Even a Resilience Coach can fall into bad habits...

We can all fall into bad habits and not listen to the signs and clues.

It took back spasms, agony and lying in the rain before I listened!

What are you putting off or ignoring…?

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Resilience: it's a long game.

Becoming Resilient cannot be achieved via a “quick fix”, “one-off” session. Building and maintaining your Resilience requires regular effort and helpful habits.

How each individual recovers from the Pandemic will be unique to them and it will require dedicated long-term effort and support from Organisations.

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Have you ever asked yourself ‘how do I learn?’

How do you learn? And how are you going to genuinely learn form the last year?

A good level of Resilience enables you to be more open-minded, have a Growth Mindset and allow yourself to take forward key learning from the past year.

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Adaptability vs Agility

Alongside being told, “you need to be Resilient”, we’re also being told to “be adaptable” and “be agile”. However is it really clear to you what these terms mean? Which one energises you more?!

Adaptable is about our overall openness to change and Agility is our capacity to quickly to change direction. There is a difference.

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Emotional Health or Mental Health?

What more can we do to enable people to feel comfortable chatting about themselves and their wellbeing?

There is still too much stigma around the term “mental health”, what if we chat about Emotional Health?

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Honestly, how adaptable are you?

What have you learnt about how adaptable you really are, over the past year?

We will have a different perspective on this, depending on whether we “like” or dislike” the change we are doing.

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Are some people naturally more resilient? It’s times like these that push people’s resilience to the limit

We only know how Resilient we are when we have to face adversity.

For some, the Pandemic may be the first time they’ve had to do this, for others, they’ve had to be Resilient for decades or centuries.

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