Lastly, we can more readily identify our strengths and increase our resilience by adapting the reality-check questions to examine the expectations that attempt to govern how we articulate and act on our beliefs and values. • How realistic are these expectations? • Can I be all these things all of the time? Do I want to be? • Can all of these characteristics exist in one authentic person? • Does meeting the expectations make me more or less authentic? • Am I describing my authentic self or who others want me to be?
