Tag: resilience

  • When You Get Knocked Down, Get The Support To Get Back Up Again

    Have you heard the story of Elise Christie, British Speed Skater? In the 500m event, she was disqualified from silver medal position after being judged to have caused a collision. In the 1500m event, she was awarded a ‘did not finish’ because she was fractionally outside the finish line. Heartbreaking, but these things happen in…

  • Video: Get Comfortable With Failure

    Watch the Video Here Going after success means risking failure. C’est la vie. It’s no big deal to fail – it means you tried, you learned something new and you’re closer to success. Failure is going to happen, it’s going to hurt…but it’s not that bad! Failures give you great feedback to help you succeed…

  • How Quick Are You Gonna Get Up?

    I was just listening to ‘Ali in the Jungle’ by The Hours – here’s a snippet of the lyrics: Everybody gets knocked down, How quick are you gonna’ get up? At the end of last week I had quite a significant knock down – one that left me feeling totally squooshed (like Thomas out of…

  • Perfectly Imperfect

    Do you strive to be ‘perfect’? Get upset when you ‘fail’? What if perfection was allowing yourself to be imperfect? To fail, mess up, get things horribly horribly wrong…and then to get up again with resilience and try once more? That’s perfection – the perfection of the human existence, because the glorious truth is that…