Resiliency Extends Your Performance Curve

Resiliency to stress, anxiety and adversity impacts each of us differently and in degrees. One person could thrive doing challenging presentations or during a conflict, while another sweats it out. We are all different. We experience stress differently and have varied perceptions of it-some unrealistic. That’s called “being human”.

We all experience stress and adversity. It’s life and the reality of developing and pushing ourselves to improve and perform better. Performing to our peak of ability can feel stressful. Performing beyond our current ability can feel extremely stressful, even debilitating and maybe even defeating. It's important to know the difference from what is normal and abnormal and we should not label normal performance stress abnormal.

The core point here is that we can condition ourselves to push out our stress performance boundary through training and application of resiliency building techniques. That is proven. Resilience building is a skill-just like all the other skills we can work on. And just like all the other mental and physical skills, it takes intentional focus and repetition and reinforcement. It requires a mindset of commitment, adaptability and accountability.

The value of pushing out our stress curve boundary is that we are proactively preparing ourselves to handle increasing stress and adversity load. That’s a good thing and we need to in a world where stress and adversity are ONLY on the increase. Yet, pushing our stress performance curve is not a once and done. It’s not using a magic phrase “you can do this”, or, “you can do hard things”. Those are not strategies-they are quotes and aspirational statements.

Conditioning is the result of training, here with resiliency building. There are over 50 methods (not just yoga, breathing, meditation and journaling-which can be good-but many don’t gravitate to those).

Reach out (slavinskijack@gmail.com) if you want to learn more about resiliency. Just “gutting things out” is not a proven way to deal with lifes challenges-real resiliency training is. Use it!!