Choosing to Conquer Our Challenges One Small Step at a Time
@bethvogt
The subject of resilience came up last weekend during a text conversation with my friend Bernadette. We were discussing how a year has passed since COVID upended our lives. One whole year. Also, like so many others, Bernadette and I are walking through grief because family members died during the pandemic.
“I don’t know about you, but I feel like I used to be more resilient,” Bernadette told me during our text conversation. “I know I used to be more resilient.”
I don’t consider myself a naturally resilient person. Everything I know about resiliency I learned watching my daughter Christa on the volleyball court.
Christa is a fierce competitor. She hates when her team loses a match, but she can shake off her disappointment and step back on the court, ready to take on the next competitor.
I could talk about why some people seem more naturally resilient than others. Or what wears down our resilience. Maybe do some research on resilience and include some information, such as how resilient people can process both positive and negative emotions, even in difficult situations.
But this is more of a conversation than an analysis. Some people are just more naturally resilient than other people – just like how some of us have a natural bent toward spelling and some of us don’t.
Maybe the first step to being more resilient – whether our resilience is worn out or we’ve never been all that resilient – is acknowledging life hasn’t changed as much as we hoped it would when we were ringing in the new year.
We’re dealing with everything our lives encompass in 2021 while still processing what our lives were like in 2020.
Maybe you’re recovering from COVID.Or schooling your children – juggling the whole in-person and at-home schedule.Caring for aging parents – or grieving distance from them or the loss of them.Struggling with financial upheaval caused by job changes – in person to remote – or unemployment.Or maybe you’re trying to handle the emotional burden of all of the above.Consider the quote my friend shared with me during our conversation:
“[The quote is] short, sweet, and doable. And I can remember it,” Bernadette said. “And it reminds me that little by little is legit.”
I love when texting with a friend becomes a life lesson loaded with encouragement.
Little by little is legit.
The best way we can do all that is demanded of us in 2021? One small step at a time.
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'One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.' Quote by John Wanamaker https://bit.ly/2P11g9r #challenges #perseverance
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NOTE: The quote “Little by little, one travels far,” is often attributed to C.S. Lewis. However, I did some research and found it was, in fact, not said by him. You can read about this here.
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