Resilience in 2026
Coming from a broken home, spending time in foster care and then having to rebuild my life more than once I have learnt the hard way about what resilience is all about. You don’t need to have been beaten as a child or suffer immeasurably to understand resilience but it’s unquestionably the case that right now all of us need to understand how to be resilient.
The big thing to remember about finding resilience is that it’s your journey! You can indeed take advice from people and social media posts but ultimately you have to find your own way forward and your motivations to keep going.
Resilience is simply the ability to absorb hard and challenging things and keep going no matter what! It’s about being pushed to your absolute limits and then finding another gear that says we have to keep going. Right now we need to find resilience in nearly every aspect of our lives. In business, in the cost of living crisis, in keeping food on the table and the lights on and now keeping petrol in the car. These are the things we all have to face but then if you aspire to achieve other things the resilience you need to find is on another level! Not only do you need to be able to deal with modern life, you have to bounce back from rejection and learn from all of it! Being able to overcome all of this is real resilience!
Resilience isn’t just about us overcoming the hard things in life we also need to teach it to our kids. None of us want our kids to experience some of the things we had to growing up but they still need to understand that life can knock you down and you absolutely must get up again! We can’t protect our kids from all the big bad world will thrust upon them but we can teach them about resilience then they will be much better off.
It is hard to keep going at the moment, it’s hard to rise above the noise saying don’t bother, rise above the negativity on social media, but we have to ignore all of it, keep going, go again and show the world what your version of resilience actually looks like.
Hard things are hard for a reason and right now things are hard but if you can find you’re own resilience you will ultimately be so much better off and you will have learned that from hard times come great success and opportunities! So get on with finding your resilience now.
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