How BIG is Your Problem?

You can tell the size of the person by the size of the problem that gets them down.

(Eric Worre)

This quote was given to me during the last week. It followed on from a discussion about being resilient. There have been a few things that have popped up for me over the last few weeks and it was brought to my attention that perhaps I was not as resilient as I thought I was!

The definition of resilience is the ability to bounce back from a difficulty or challenge. 

So, what I discovered about myself was: I do actually have some resilience, as I have the ability to bounce back in a reasonable amount of time....except...I do not have a lot of resilience in the moment itself when things are not going the way I expected in my mind!

I should say at this point, these moments very rarely happen when I am work! The unexpected has happened enough times at work that they are easy to manoeuvre through. It is at home that the moments happen more...

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