The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People Quotes

“Rose-Bud-Thorn,” where we go around the in-person or virtual room and share: Rose: A success or point of pride Bud: Something emerging Thorn: A failure, challenge, or something difficult”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“We often sacrifice ourselves for what other people want rather than living authentically to ourselves.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“It’s easy to think what others want for us but rarely do we truly listen to our gut and our heart, and that is where a bucket list should begin. If nothing in the world were impossible, what would you do? Even if it is impossible, what do you want to do before you die?”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“sometimes, though you may think you want to leave a relationship or a company, what you really want to leave behind is something within yourself or a feeling,”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“The degree to which people can support us is a measure of their capacity to hear hard things, NOT a measure of our worthiness.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“What is the story I have told myself about this experience? Does it support the highest aspects of the person I am and am becoming? How might I (re)tell my resilience story, so the narrative is empowering and highlights my strengths as a person, in leadership and life?”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“we think we are offering a kindness by keeping things nice and clean for people—not making them uncomfortable by perhaps sharing too much. We reason that if people don’t know the gooey details of our lives, of our humanness, they won’t have to worry about us. Or support us. Or help us. Or be burdened by us. And, conveniently, we won’t have to rely on them either. Rather than overshare, many of us tend to undershare our resilience stories. Often, we are all about listening to others’ resilience stories, meeting the needs of others, and taking care of others. We’re willing to give a great deal, but we don’t ask for our own needs, wants, or desires to be considered, let alone met, in return.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“Resilience isn’t about waiting for things to happen to you; it’s about making things happen. It isn’t about waiting for the law of attraction to kick in; it’s about being a force of nature. It’s not about waiting to be inspired; it’s about being the genesis of your own inspiration. It’s writing your own story, instead of passively defaulting to a story written for you.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“Instead of seeing challenge as the final say, the period at the end of the sentence, view challenge as the comma in the middle of the sentence, asking us how we’d like to write the rest of our story.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“challenge doesn’t detract from our worth and value. Challenge provides the moments in which we learn just how much we are worth.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“• Challenge is not something shameful. There is no reason to feel guilty or victimized when challenge emerges in your life.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“Remember, in those moments, that barely making it is still making it. Gasping for breath is still breathing, and fighting on, even though you feel depleted, means having the courage to keep showing up for the challenging times.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

“Resilience isn’t about quickly recovering or avoiding challenge, it’s about facing the challenge that comes our way and figuring out how to effectively deal with it for our ultimate growth and benefit.”
― Taryn Marie Stejskal, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold