What happens when you realise your path is entrepreneurship rather than employment? Lindsay takes up the challenge and shares an account of her journey as it unfolds…

Resilience, as I’ve discovered, isn’t about how much thick skin you’ve got or how much you can carry on with something determinedly (although that’s quite a close definition).

Resilience is “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties”.

Apparently, resilience is like a muscle – it strengthens with practice. It seems people can be more resilient if they:

• don’t have so much recovery to do (e.g. if they mitigated the extent of the damage / pain)
• have a degree of independence, a personal distance from the subject of the difficulties
• see the journey that they are on is ever-evolving, and the difficulties they encounter as learning moments.

Psychology today sums it up:

Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise from the ashes. Psychologists have identified some of the factors that make someone resilient, among them a positive attitude, optimism, the ability to regulate emotions, and the ability to see failure as a form of helpful feedback. Even after misfortune, resilient people are blessed with such an outlook that they are able to change course and soldier on.

Resilience then is a strategy – an adaption strategy – because if you keep adapting, you never have to give up, you just keep refining and changing and adjusting – towards a sustainability.

I need to know about this right now because client number 3 just dropped out.

It’s hard getting this snowball going. I’m going to change the way the snowball looks now – to define it differently so maybe other people want to give it a push too.

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