WOW: Resilience - Wednesday

A quick refresher: 

Resilience:

re·sil·ience

rəˈzilyəns/

noun

noun: resilience; plural noun: resiliences

1. 1. 

   the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.

   "nylon is excellent in wearability and resilience"
2. 2. 

   the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

   "the often remarkable resilience of so many British institutions"

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   I've written a lot on here about the idea of chasing happiness and the necessity to find your happy moments in each and every day.  So important!

   
   

   Sometimes it's easy...when things are going smoothly and living up to my expectations.  Other times, as I've jokingly referred to, the closest I get to happiness is that first sip of home-brewed in the early dawn before the day really begins.  Thankfully, I think I've mastered the art of  holding on to that happy moment (or moments) and letting it blossom into hope.  Because as I touched on in my last post, hope is really the driving force in continuing on when things seem bleak.

   
   

   Hope is what feeds resilience.

   
   

   In times when defeat seems but one false-step away, it's that resilience that you and I need to tap into.    That hope. That intuitive knowledge that if we bend into the problem and allow it to reshape some portion of us, we'll survive.  

   
   

   And when things change, as they always do, it's our resilience that allows us to build a new normal from the pieces of what went before and to be hopeful that in doing so, we'll be able to find our happiness again.

   
   

   It's resilience that allows us to free ourselves from past expectations and to dream up new goals.

   
   

   Happiness fosters hope.

   Hope feeds resilience.

   Resilience encourages growth.

   
   

   You can't possibly have one without the other. 

   
   

   So find your happiness...each and every day.  No matter what...find it!

   Allow your happiness to make  you hopeful.

   Allow that hope to strengthen your resolve...to make you more resilient.

   Allow that resilience to support you and change you...and grow into whatever is needed next.

   
   

   Because the only other option is defeat.

   
   

   So choose resilience.

   Today.  Tomorrow. Every day.

   Choose happiness-hope-resilience-and growth.

   Accept reality and take all it's pieces and make something amazing out of them.

   
   

   Make your life.