Rules of Resilience: 10 Ways Successful People Get Better, Wiser, and Stronger

by Valorie Burton, John C. Maxwell (foreword)

What if you could learn the secret to thriving no matter what obstacles, setbacks or challenges come your way?

No matter what it is you want in life, the difference between success and failure is resilience. Fortunately, the skills of resilience can be learned. In Rules of Resilience, Valorie Burton, best-selling author of Successful Women Think Differently and CEO of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute, teaches you how to build or strengthen your own personal resilience system. She offers practical strategies you can employ immediately to conquer obstacles, overcome setbacks, achieve greater happiness, and succeed at higher levels than ever before.

Drawing on more than two decades of experience as a personal and executive coach, and her extensive work in the pioneering field of applied positive psychology,

reveals how to build a level of mental and emotional fitness and strength that will transform your work, relationships, finances, and healthconsolidates intriguing research into easy-to-remember rules that can be put into practice right awayguides readers through any current or potential challenge--enabling them to conquer obstacles and achieve their life goals in a healthy and meaningful way.Once you know the rules of resilience and start practicing them, you’ll discover that it’s possible to learn how to grow through challenges and not just go through them. If you’re ready to learn the secrets of life-changing resilience, let Valorie Burton be your guide in this transformational book.

244 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 16, 2025

About the author

I am a bestselling author, speaker, and life coach dedicated to helping people like you get unstuck and be unstoppable in every area of life.

I founded The Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute and have served as a Certified Personal and Executive Coach to hundreds of clients in over 40 states and ten countries.

For more than a decade, I have had the pleasure of writing, speaking, and coaching in order to help people like you:

- Make major life changes
- Be happier and have more fun
- Become strong leaders
- Achieve professional dreams
- Navigate setbacks
- Speak up with confidence
- Feel at peace with decisions
- Conquer emotions that can cause self-sabotage

Let me help you get unstuck and be unstoppable!

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Reviews

[Alicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Needed Resource!

I have read every book written by Valorie Burton, and this book was a much needed resource for this season in my life. The rules outlined in the book were simple and easy to implement. I will keep this book as a reference for my challenging moments. Thank you so much for writing it.

[Roldan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tool

I love this book it’s easy too read and easy too practice I fully recommend too everyone but, specially too does that have been living a challenge moments in their lives

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read with very useful steps to become more resilient. I particularly love that the author includes steps that readers can use to coach themselves. This book is definitely one I can see myself going back to. It's not just a book but a tool one can use to build resilience.