2 Ways To Bounce Back Faster: Mastering Resilience

Margie Warrell is a best-selling author and international speaker, who is focused on helping individuals develop more courage in their work lives, cultivate good leadership skills, and general outlooks on life. With a background in business, psychology and coaching, it makes sense that she works on running various “courage building” programs. Here, she breaks down 6 ways you can bounce back faster, elevate your mindset, and build the true resilience you’ll need for future dilemmas. Below I summarize some of Warrell’s key points; with my background in Communication, I also build on some of her points with brief thoughts of my own.

#1. Elevate your perspective

While most people overthink here and there, some people just can’t seem to escape the barrage of invasive negative thoughts. Surely you can recall a time when you blew a relatively insignificant problem into a giant catastrophe. Sometimes we just need to step outside of the box, and observe what’s really happening with a sharp birds-eye view. As Warrell explains, when you “elevate” your perspective, you’ll see the problem for what it really is — just that, a problem, and not the end of the world. Zoom out even further, and you’ll see opportunities to learn something valuable. She sums it up quite perfectly: “Our problems cannot be solved on the same level of thinking at which they were created.

#2 Watch your language.

The words you use can be reflected in the reality that you are building for yourself. If I may add to this, briefly taking into consideration a Linguistic perspective, the Sapir-Worf Hypothesis (first developed by Edward-Sapir in 1929, and later re-worked by Benjamin Worf) in its simplest sense says that the structure of language predisposes the speaker to think (and behave) in certain ways. Now thinking back to Warrell’s advice to watch your language, we can see how the constant use of negative language in describing your circumstances can be devastating for any chance you have of solving it. Make sure the words you use to describe a given situation place you in a position of control, and work in your mind to convey a sense of power and capability in solving the problem.