Test Your Resiliency

Happy Tuesday! Yesterday I shared Angela Duckworth’s advice about resiliency and grit: Up your game and focus on what you can control today.

 If you are curious how resilient you are, take the Brief Resilience Assessment (below and attached) to get a pulse on your resiliency.

To score yourself, add the responses varying from 1-5 for all six questions giving a range from 6-30. Divide the total sum by the 6 to get your average resiliency score. If you scored close to 5, great - you view yourself as resilient and have some positive experiences bouncing back from stressful situations. If you scored below 4, that’s a really valuable data point. Now, what will you do with that information? 

We know from the science of neuroplasticity that we can change our brains and how we respond to stress. We can all stand to up our game with resiliency, and what better time than now to work on this life skill? And I’ll bet there is someone in your family or at work who is really struggling with this. I’ll share some resiliency techniques and ideas in the next email. And my Wednesday office hours are open to anyone: 10-11am MT. I just ask that you register ahead of time. Have a great day!