Five Tips To Build Your Resilience As A CEO

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Resilience is a word you may see flying around a lot at the moment. Broken down, resilience is the ability to recover from tough situations or difficulties. But beyond that, resilience is what helps you stay in control, keep your head in the game, and yourself sane. As a CEO, you’re under constant pressure, either from pressures, you’re putting on yourself or from pressures from your business, customers, or employees. That’s where resilience training steps in. 

1. Understand what resilience is and how it can help you 

Resilience is about rationalizing the stressors of everyday life and fostering a growth mindset that can help you weather the storms of daily life. Or, as a CEO, even more than daily life. It means adapting, growing, and modifying to situations, and helping you to get through difficult circumstances that could have the power to topple you. It doesn’t mean hardships won’t affect you, but it does put you in a good position to get through them. 

2. Understand your stressors 

This may be a confronting moment, but it’s an important step into making an action plan. Whether you’re concerned about next quarter’s forecast or meeting your own personal goals, understand what is in your control and what isn’t in your control can then help you rationalize stressors. Whether you’re planning a high-profile corporate yacht charter or your next year’s budget, there will be elements of stress that you can control and some that you can’t. Acknowledging what you’re stressed about can help you face your fears, and chances are, things aren’t so scary after all. 

3. Wellness 

Taking the steps to look after yourself — mentally and physically — is often referred to as wellness. That looks different to everyone, whether that’s daily mediation, working out in the gym, enjoying a long hot bath, or cooking a delicious meal. What’s important is finding something that makes you feel better and calmer, which can in turn trickle into how you’re feeling day to day. 

4. Putting it into words 

Writing is a great tool in the process of building resilience. Rather than allowing events, conversations, or worries to build up in your head, driving you to distraction, you can halt the rumination and take action. By writing down your worries, feelings, and stressors down in a journal or notebook, you allow the logical side of your brain to kick in. It can confront and assess the situations and provide you with local solutions and healing. Ultimately, you can own the narrative. 

5. Practice compassion

Being kind to yourself and practicing self-compassion can help build resilience. By building your confidence and confronting your inner critic, you can foster a more positive sense of self that will help you bounce back after any knocks. In any stressful situation, being hyper-critical of yourself will only make the entire situation worse. 

Hopefully, these tips and tricks will help you build your own resilience, and ultimately help you be a happier and more successful CEO. 

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