Building Character through Resilience and Overcoming Adversity
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This document discusses building resilience through overcoming adversity. It identifies 10 unhelpful thinking habits like all-or-nothing thinking that can hinder resilience. It suggests catching negative self-talk and substituting it with something uplifting. It also recommends building a resilience reservoir through acceptance, support systems, faith, hope, sense of control, purpose, self-reflection, and commitment. Important lessons about failure emphasize that failure can lead to success if you maintain the right perspective and keep bouncing back from challenges.
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Building Character through Resilience and Overcoming Adversity
- 1. Overcoming Adversity Building Character through Resilience by Javed Mohammed javed_mohammed@hotmail.com
- 3. “Why” is a universal cry for help
- 6. Not really
- 7. Life is gonna throw setbacks, accidents, relationship fallouts and other challenges at us.
- 9. What’s your outlook on life?
- 12. Denial is an obstacle to positive change
- 13. Some people bounce back and others fall apart
- 14. 10 unhelpful thinking habits 1. All or nothing thinking 2. Jumping to conclusions 3. Over-generalizing 4. Making a mountain out of a mole hill 5. Emotional reasoning 6. Should Statements 7. Taking things personally 8. Wishful thinking 9. Mental filter 10. Discounting the positive
- 16. How our thinking manages our emotions Calm times Strong emotions Feelings Feelings Thinking Thinking
- 17. Catastrophizing
- 23. Catch the negative self-talk and substitute them with something uplifting
- 24. Build a Resilience Reservoir Acceptance Support Group Faith Hope & Sense of Control Purpose driven Self reflecting Commitment Believe in possibilities
- 25. Important Lessons about Failure • The grass isn’t greener on the other side. • Failure is often mandatory to lead to success • Look down, not up, your perspective will change where you stand • Life doesn’t run on cruise control, it is cycles of expansion and contraction • Perfection belongs only to God • Think back to a time you were between a rock and a hard place, how did you get out of it? • You can be a ball or a brick, the choice is yours • You are entitled to nothing, nada, zilch • Accept yourself. You are on this planet for a reason, find it, live it. • Commit and use the divine energy to move mountains
- 26. Resiliency means Keep bouncing back