Day 3

Resilience

Not bouncing back. Moving forward.

This Morning

What have you already survived that you have not given yourself credit for?

Resilience is not the absence of difficulty. It is the capacity to continue. Dorothy Rose Tyler lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, the loss of people she loved, and a century of change that would have broken most people. She did not bounce back. She moved forward. She kept going. Not because she was extraordinary. Because she practiced. Every day, she chose to continue. That practice is what you are building.

Reflect

You have already been resilient more times than you realize. Think of the hardest thing you have faced in the last year. You are still here. You continued. That is not nothing. That is everything. Today, acknowledge that.

Today's Practice

Name one hard thing you have moved through

Write it down. Just one. Something that was genuinely difficult, that you faced and kept going. It does not have to be dramatic. It just has to be real. Write what happened. Write what you did. Write that you continued. Then read it back. You have been building resilience your entire life. Today, you are doing it consciously.

"She kept going. Not because it was easy. Because that is what you do."

Kevin J. Durkin, on Dorothy Rose Tyler