Resilience

In the second half of life, we may feel uncertain and vulnerable.

You have an intuition that you can be and do more and better, but you need to figure out how to develop and step into that potential.

What to do?

It begins with trusting yourself enough to take small bets on yourself.

Be open to and take small steps into possibility in defining, developing, and delivering the difference only you can make.

Receptivity, restraint, and resilience can inspire and inform the real work of your life's next chapter.

Living your legacy is work that matters, and it's work that might not always work.

Failure, misfortune, and being ignored are just a few difficulties that will greet you daily.

Each day's effort is a lesson. Refining the work and whom it is done with and for is a never-ending challenge, but it's also a privilege.

Living your legacy rewards your intention and integrity with meaning and purpose that fuels resilience.

Resilience is a skill acquired and honed through doing the real work of making the difference only you can make in the second half of life.

Doing human work.

Committing to your gift and those whose lives will be enhanced by it.

Resilience is cultivated by showing up daily with curiosity, courage, and creativity and collaborating with others to make meaningful change for the better happen.

Resilience is usually framed as returning to a previous state after being bent or stretched.

We associate resilience with recovery.

But resilience isn't merely a return to "normal" or how things were.

Resilience is about developing yourself and growing into your potential.

Resilience helps you flourish regardless of the intensity or duration of a struggle or its ultimate outcome.

Resilience isn't required for those who prefer to remain humble, hiding and watching from the stands.

But for those in the arena playing their game, resilience is one of the rewards for determined and deliberate effort toward an aim worth pursuing.

How are you developing resilience as you step into what's next today?

Scott Perry, Encore Life Coach at Creative on Purpose

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