Chapter Eight

Building your personal resilience; the ultimate antidote to stress

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

JOHN MAXWELL

As my work on pressure and stress has evolved, there is one outstanding part that has assumed growing importance for me and, more importantly, many of my clients. This is the capability to build up, and make use of, all the core elements that encompass personal resilience. I have observed that, where there are low levels of resilience, the route from experiencing challenge to suffering from distress, is dramatically shortened. The opposite learning is just as evident. With highly developed levels of resilience, you can counter and manage the pressure, dramatically reducing the risk of the onset and ...

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