TED Talks

Attending to your physical well-being will enhance your resilience. Three central building blocks to physical well-being are engage in movement, prioritize sleep, and practice healthy eating.

Having social support is key to resilience. Three central building blocks that help create a strong social life are build intentional relationships, enhance social skills, and develop empathy.

Our thoughts make a huge difference in our ability to be resilient. Three building blocks of cognitive resilience are expect challenges, adopt a growth mindset, and change irrational/unhelpful thoughts.

Seeing life through a lens of faith helps a person be resilient in a number of ways. For example, where we put our attention can greatly influence our resilience. It’s not healthy to “put our head in the sand” or ignore bad news or difficulties. It’s important, though, not to let the negative pieces overshadow all that is good, amazing, and beautiful. Intentionally paying attention to the good things in life increases our resilience. Three central building blocks to having spiritual well-being are adopt a faith perspective, engage in spiritual practices, and join a faith community.

Life skills are habits or practices that help to prevent unnecessary stressors by managing resources and minimizing obstacles to well-being. Three building blocks to promote well-being are take charge of your finances, manage your time, and be discerning about your technology usage.

The time and energy you devote to others’ well-being have a positive effect on your own well-being. Three building blocks to engaging in service are consider your values, serve in large ways, and serve in small ways.

Resilience is the capacity to make it through expected and unexpected adversities. In the process of navigating such adversities, we may be stretched, changed, and develop new skills to enhance our lives.