The Impact of Resiliency

Here's a short but potent tip if you desire to achieve your daring dreams:

Study the significance of emotional resiliency. People who are resilient resist failure and are able to put setbacks into perspective. They usually are quite good at separating disappointment from their own personal value. If you want to achieve your significant dreams, an understanding of personal resiliency will help you go much farther down life's road...finally to arrive at your definition of achievement.

All human beings will experience setbacks. Most will keep trying after one or two upsets. The successful, though, just won't quit until they cross the "finish line." Guess what the successful own as one of their emotional tools?

That's right. The gift of emotional resiliency.

Get started today studying the impact and significance of resiliency, because that which we think about we gravitate towards. There are many books you could choose from to better understand the impact of resiliency (or lack thereof). And while some books appear geared towards the youngest among us, they teach true principles that we all can apply internally. In fact, some of these books for youth make the subject the most clear!

I did a quick search on Amazon.com for a sample listing, which I've listed below. And I bet your local library will have some great offerings on the topic of resiliency!

• THE SURVIVOR PERSONALITY: Why Some People are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties...and How You Can Be, Too, by Al Siebert
• THE RESILIENCE FACTOR: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles, by Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte
• THE RESILIENCY ADVANTAGE: Master Changes, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks, Al Siebert
• EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman
• THE LANGUAGE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, by Jeanne Segal
• RAISING CHILDREN IN A SOCIALLY TOXIC ENVIRONMENT, by James Garbarino

The theme for October's study here at The Butterfly Principle will be emotional resiliency. Pick your reading selections and read them for fun from October 1-31st, and then come back to share any comments you desire about what you've learned during the process! Your perspectives are important and I'd love to learn your ideas and how resiliency has helped you overcome great difficulties.