Worry, Your Old Friend
Hello O' Brilliant One and Happy New Year!
Are you inspired but tired?
I want to share this story with you to motivate you to continue your journey to CRUSH 2024. In this story, you will meet one of the characters from my new book, Resilience@Work, who is someone I believe we can all relate to at some point or another. Enjoy O' Brilliant One.
What does resilience mean to you? I define resilience as the capacity to recover from setbacks.
Everyone experiences setbacks in life, but not everyone understands how to release their brilliance following those setbacks, and how to become resilient.
Have you ever found yourself feeling like you are frozen in space? Are you ever fearful of making a mistake? Have you ever worked in a toxic work environment?
I want to introduce you to an old friend of mind, Worry, who is someone I believe we can all relate to at some point in our lives.
By the end of this story, Worry will have found what it means to be resilient, but let’s start from the beginning.
Worry is 35 years of age, drowning under waves of anxiety, believing that her work is meaningless. Worry had a negative outlook on life. She lived in a state of paranoia, and instead of dealing with her feelings, she suppressed them.
Worry found it difficult to be happy at work or even at home. She found it difficult to maintain friendships, that is until she met four individuals who were either on a similar journey as she was, or they had already been there and even recovered from the setbacks.
After a few get-togethers, Worry was finally ready to share with her newfound friends her struggles. She shared that since she was a kid she dreamed of being an engineer, but when it came time to pursue this dream, she didn’t believe she had what it took to achieve this goal. That was the gremlin of disappointment and discouragement whispering in her ear.
Out of fear of pursuing her dream, she was now stuck working in a toxic environment with a boss who overpiled her to-do list. She couldn’t leave out of fear of not being able to pay rent and take care of her family.
Having been through a similar feeling themselves, two of the friends introduced the friend-to-friend process to her. Now, you may be asking yourself, what is the friend-to-friend process?
The friend-to-friend process consists of these three questions you need to ask yourself. Now, I can’t give it all away, so you’ll have to read my new book, Resilience@Work, to find out what all three questions are, but I will share with you the first one:
1. What do you want for you?
When answering these questions, Worry’s friends explained that the answers needed to be only about her, really focusing on YOU.
Now, becoming resilient does not happen overnight, but your outlook on life needs to change in order to move forward. Worry decided she was going to start each day with a positive expectation, one small step that means the world. When she feels a negative thought coming, she will flip it into a positive one before it can affect her day.
After meeting her new friends, and adopting the friend-to-friend process, Worry has become more resilient, both personally and professionally, and got rid of the gremlin of discouragement whispering in her ear.
Worry is a character from my new book, Resilience@Work. Worry, and the four other characters in the book, are different versions of me from the past. They are versions of myself that have grown and developed to empower me to become the man I am today. I am grateful for the setbacks I experienced in life and am proud to say I now feel resilient. I continue to work hard every day in my personal and professional growth journeys because, if we’re being honest, you can never stop growing for the better.
I wish this growth journey and a new outlook on life for every brilliant individual reading this blog, and I hope you join me on your journey @simontbailey to becoming resilient. You can do this, O’ Brilliant One. I love you and I believe in you. Now go be resilient.
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