How do you know that you are a resilient person? You would notice that the resilient person has the ability to cope very well with change, difficulties, tragic, how you recover from problems and how you react to those situations. The question of how you acquire the resilience ability, according to some research, it is believed that the emotional and physical resilience is something you are born with. However, many researches show that you can increase your resilience ability by learning from personal experiences, hardships, and proper training. You can develop the skills on how to deal with difficulties and stress in your daily life but please bear in mind that each of us tend to be able to deal with resilience in various degrees.
I am an individual who is blessed with resilience ability. From childhood years, I can feel that I’m different from many of my friends due to my easy going and adaptive ability. I tend to see the “Big Picture”, the positive side of every situation, and challenges that I encountered. I react to problems differently and yet remain happy. Not knowing that the goal of just wanting to be “happy” and confronting the problems or changes in life has become a part of my resilience training that I will need in my career life and my marriage life. Growing up I strived to learn from great and successful people on how they live their life to the fullest. Being able to face life’s problems with confidence, well planned and organized, I slowly became a resilient person and I have to continuously remind myself to be back to the state of clear goal setting and stay focused.
Ever wonder how leadership resilience works? Resilient leaders usually have strong problem-solving skills; they are leaders who can adjust easily in different working cultures or organizational change; he/she focuses on work pressure and deadlines. The strong resilient leaders know how to integrate thinking-feeling-knowing (knowledge) which reminds me of my former boss, also a God-
Mother at my wedding, Dr. Lourdes G. Salvador, who spent most of her life abroad. Dr. Salvador inspired me to become not just a good leader but a great leader. She trained me and allowed me to face challenges with international working background even at its worst. I observed how she could handle difficult challenges and made it through. We overcame and confronted those problems
with success stories to tell.
A tip for leaders who want to increase their resilience ability to be able to improve their life and expand their world view is to keep in mind that the resilience skills are not difficult once you learn to observe the environment, knowing yourself (personal mastery), believe that you are in control of your own life, learn from your mistakes, make connection to your inner self, and value
teamwork. I just did!
