Resilience: How To Successfully Adapt to Life Challenges
It's vital to maintain resilience during tough life challenges. Coach Elix recently spoke to guest Phillip Brooks on Get a G.R.I.P. with Coach Elix about the importance of resilience and strength despite facing many difficult situations in life.
One of the best ways to achieve success and freedom is to continue getting back up and trying. Going with the flow and seeing the best in a situation can help you stay strong and positive, no matter what. In this episode, Coach Elix and Phil chat about being resilient.
About Guest Phillip Brooks
Phillip Brooks is a public speaker, executive coach, C.E.O. in Family Business, Leadership, and Succession, and a Food Systems Specialist. He helps many people maintain a strong and positive spirit while facing challenges. He has helped clients manage their stress levels and improve their lives with strength, resilience, and more.
How We Can Benefit From Resilience
Resilience is the ability to adapt to an ever-changing world and stay flexible. Phillip Brooks began working at 13 and used that experience to propel his many years of life success. It's vital to have resilience to achieve freedom at home, in the workplace, and in the world.
It will make you a better friend, family member, coworker, partner, and person. A resilient person can reshape negative worries and moments into rational thinking and positivity and have a spirit that people gravitate toward. Phillip states that recalling five key aspects in stressful situations (gratitude, compassion, acceptance, meaning, and forgiveness) allows us to slow down and recognize things aren't always high-stress.
Navigating Stress and Difficulties Through Resilience
Changing our energy when approaching a situation helps us remain strong, like a willow or bamboo tree. Taking a moment for mindfulness, appreciation, and positive thoughts are excellent coping strategies when dealing with difficult situations. Deep breathing and pausing can help clarify things when tough rather than diving right into a high-stress scenario.
Having strategies can help you manage stress instead of letting it take over your life. A resilient person will address and deal with stress but move on and adapt to the world around them. You can, too!
Having Social Support During Stressful Times
People who embody resilience also have a strong support system. We need our community to help us through life, including family, friends, partners, and more. Someone with relationships, physical resilience by being in shape, and a positive mindset will feel happier and more resilient no matter what is going on in their life.
While the world provides us with financial, health, and mental hardships, resilience is necessary!
Connecting with Phillip Brooks
The G.R.I.P. Method
G.R.I.P. stands for "Greatness Requires Intention & Purpose," and many who have followed this method can attest to that. This strategy helps people find their goals, inspirations, and visions and execute them with clear intentions through planning, purpose, and integrity. It works with science and psychology to make dreams a reality.
It is a roadmap that guides you through struggles and hardships, with the final destination being the life you want to lead or the changes you wish to make. The G.R.I.P. Method offers a plan to go from fear to freedom and helps you break away from where past attempts did not work.
