Dealing with Adversity

Some people appear to deal with adversity easily and bounce back from all types of events while others seem to crumble at a minor setback.

But why?

My view is that dealing with adversity and being able to bounce back from setbacks is a skill which can be learned.

Some seem to learn these lessons at a very young age, even as toddlers or young children, while the rest of us take longer to pick up these skills.

But we can make steps to start developing these skills now.

1. Firstly view any experience as a learning one, try to take anything from it, we can generally learn a lot about ourselves in difficult situations.

2. Reinvent the future, always be prepared to alter our future plans and expectations based on what has happened. That is not to say we give up on ambitions.

3. Don't get angry; get curious; we can all initially react with fury when something goes wrong. But we need to work hard to overcome these feelings and then try to become curious about what went wrong and why we reacted in the particular way we did.

Cheers