Enthusiasm
is common. Endurance is rare. - Angela Duckworth
Quick update, the author did not go to Virginia
Beach over Memorial Day weekend as she had planned for various reasons. It was not an easy decision, but she knows it
was the right decision. After talking to
a friend that she plans to visit while down there, she started looking for
another weekend to travel down to have a relaxing weekend away. As she wrote about, the author immediately
took action to help keep herself motivated since she was not able to walk in
the sand as she had dreamed of doing.
When the author made the decision not to travel
over Memorial Day weekend, she decided to be resilient like a palm tree. Palm trees go through horrible hurricanes and
are bent over to the point that their branches are touching the ground during
the worst of the storm. Once the storm
is over, the palm tree bounces back to its upright position. Science believes the pressure of the storm makes
the palm tree stronger when they are hunched over.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good
than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream
about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together
something that's good. - Elizabeth Edwards
We have been living through trying times and we
all go through them regularly. It is our
decision of how we will handle the trial.
Will we be depressed and unmotivated or will we bounce back like a palm
tree?
ACTION: What actions are you going to take to become resilient
like a palm tree?
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