Life can be tough sometimes and you need to rely on resilience to help you make it through. Challenges are part of life, as are the fun, rewarding, easy times. By using resilience techniques and building your mindset skills you can learn how to keep yourself positive and strong in the face of setbacks and challenges. Success can be slow and takes time, which itself can be challenging.

The path to success in life is a learning process, try, fail, learn and try again. You cannot escape failure but maybe you shouldn’t try. By learning that failure is not a reflection on your value or skill can help you process it in a healthy way. It’s not an error on your part, but a natural part of growth journey towards success. Sometimes life does deal us a hard card, loss, death, change, grief, illness, rejection or the destruction of the success you’ve worked so hard to gain. Your mindset can help you through these stronger challenging times too.

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Being in control of providing for your own needs is an essential life skill. It can be seductive trap to lean on other people to provide for your foundational needs, especially if that person can provide an upgrade to what you can provide for yourself. Falling into a comfort trap can also be a reason to let others provide for you, as they tackle stressful or hard-working situations to provide for your needs, that you feel unable to face for yourself. Sometimes it feels easier to let others do those things that you find difficult or challenging rather than face up to learning how to do them yourself. The foundational areas of your life include earning and managing your finances, providing a secure home, being responsible for your safety and your health.

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Self-efficacy is the strength of your belief that you can confidently action behaviours that lead to successful outcomes, and that you can influence your motivation, behaviour, and environment. Self-efficacy is building your general skills and being confident that you have tools to fall back upon, to cope with many different situations. These can be physical skills, social skills, mindset skills or verbal skills. Building your general knowledge is also helpful in building strong self-efficacy. You don’t have to be an expert in everything, a wide range of respectable skills is best.

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Self-mastery is the ability to control yourself in all aspects of your life, to move forward confidently and consistently towards your goals. You know your purpose, and you have the self-discipline needed to get things done in a deliberate, positive, and focused way. It is the ability to govern yourself but also to nurture and provide for your needs. It is having those around you as a positive support, not as a necessary crutch, just to be able to live your life.

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Learning to be self-assured is about knowing what you can do, feeling confident in the skills that you already have and your ability to learn new skills if needs be. It’s about knowing that whatever situations come along you feel confident that you can handle it, or could learn to handle it.

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Self-Confidence is the ability to provide yourself with value and to believe in your abilities and capabilities. It’s is being resilient to receiving lack of support or criticism. Self-Confidence is having the strength to follow your own path and not need to be fed confidence by others in order to keep feeling confident about yourself. Self-skills are ways that you feed yourself with what you need for mental and emotional security, without relying on others to boost your needs.

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Self-discipline is about using personal tools such as restraint, consistency and focus in order to work towards a goal. It can feel like self-denial or that you are missing out on good stuff, but it is actually a very useful tool when looking at goals that require a small amount of effort over a period of time. Examples of this are saving for a house, a wedding, a new car, providing for children or booking a holiday; keeping to a budget; losing weight or implementing a health training program.

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Self-respect is part of self-confidence (I am valuable). It’s about knowing what you deserve as a basic right, or from what you have produced or given out to the world. It’s about knowing that you are valuable and that you deserve to be treated with dignity and with value by others. Some part of learning self-respect is working on your self-approval and self-assurance first. When you value yourself and your abilities then you can start to assert to others to treat you as such. You will learn to extract yourself from or avoid, situations where others try and treat you with disrespect.

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Approval from our peers is a key part of being a social animal. We build our sense of worth from how valued we are by our group, which is a natural quality. The pitfalls of this though are when our peers don’t seem to value us or our contributions. Learn how to build resilient, self-fed approval and self-confidence.

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Gaslighting is when someone takes their version of ‘the truth’ and pushes it as 'the actual truth'. They will twist stories, or outright lie. It relies on the subjects being increasingly unsure, unconfident or unable to prove their memories, evidence or knowledge of events to the contrary. Gaslighting can be a dangerous, destructive and insidious form of psychological manipulation. Find out what gaslighting is, how it is done and what behaviour to look out for.

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We’re rewarded for our friendship in many different ways. Some are good, some are bad. Some rewards we give, some rewards are taken from us. Some rewards are given to cover toxic behaviour. Learn to reinforce the positives in your relationships.

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We’re rewarded for our friendship in many different ways. Some are good, some are bad. Some rewards we give, some rewards are taken from us. Some rewards are given to cover toxic behaviour. Learn to reinforce the positives in your relationships.

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Being in a social group can be very rewarding and can feel great with the right crowd but some close knit groups are created from toxic roots for the wrong reasons. All social groups can be negative sometimes, learn how to navigate being the strongest that you can be and survive being in a challenging clique.

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People find many nice, or not so nice, methods to say that you’ve behaved in a way they don’t like. Find how you can spot when toxic punishments are being sent your way and how you can positively deal with them. Learn about how you can give positive social punishments and keep those boundaries and your self-respect in place.

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Want to know how to be a great manager or leader? Learn to be an A alpha and flourish both socially and in the work place.

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