If you learn how to walk, you are resilient.

Resilience as a concept, is the capacity of assuming with flexibility adverse situations and overcoming them.

According to Diane L. Coutu, specialist in Psychology and Business, resilient people and leaders have three fundamental characteristics:

- Strong acceptance of reality.

- Deep conviction that there’s a purpose in life and their beliefs are attached to strong and rooted values

- Incredible ability to improvise.

Individuality is marked by unconventional characteristics that are developed by experiences that marked our lives and allow us to show uncovered capacities. Your resilience can’t be voluntarily acquired and deliberately tested, it’s possible however, to easily educate your brain to be more resilient:

- Put your mind on hold, learn to breath calmly and let yourself be free of your thoughts. Practice mindfulness as a daily habit.

- Confront the reality you are living, become fully aware of what’s happening, put both feet on the ground, understand and accept your current situation.

- Be creative, try to develop and build solutions with what you have under your control. Use your common sense, focus on the easiest part first and leave the complex processes to the end.

If someone asks you about your experience when you learned how to walk, do you remember it? Do you remember the multiple times you fell, cried, and wobbling got up and kept trying?. Are you conscious that despite being just a baby, you had the strength to achieve something hard and challenging no matter the struggling process?

If the process of learning how to walk is seen from an outsider perspective, it could be classified as a traumatic experience; however, even if there aren’t many people that would be able to remember the ordeal, many forget that from the day they were born, as humans, we have the intrinsic ability to overcome difficulties and keep moving forward.

Difficult moments are just that, moments, and when overcome, the hard and painful process is left behind and the path ahead is to enjoy and live with the result because difficult moments are just a period of time and not our entire life, they aren’t a tragedy.

Behind every “I can’t”, there’s a person that learned how to walk and that needs to wake up the fortitude born with. Because if you learn how to walk, you are resilient.

“Whatever the scenario in which your recovery is effective, the important thing is to remember that life gives us all the possibility to choose, even in defeat. We may lose health, our loved ones, our jobs, but there is much to save. No one can define success for us, only we can do it. No one can take away our dignity unless we give up. No one can take away our hope and pride, unless we give them up. No one can steal our creativity, imagination, and skills unless we stop thinking. No one can stop us from recovering unless we give it up. ”- JEFFREY TO SONNENFELD