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At our latest How To Empower network event on how to grow whilst demonstrating resilience, we heard from our panel on what they do to help their resilience.
All three of our speakers shared their inspiring and emotive stories:
- Caroline Sarll, Founder of Widowed and Young (WAY) spoke about the reasons she founded the charity. In 1997 after her sister Amanda was widowed at the age of 35 and the result of their earlier childhood loss of their father leaving their mother a young widow, she decided that there needed to be a better way to support those widowed young.
- Gian Power, Founder & CEO TLC Lions is a PwC UK Alumni and uses the power of storytelling to transform workplaces globally. He spoke about the tragic loss of his father in 2015, the impact that had on him and why he now has a mission to to humanise the working world.
- John Maffioli, Founder of FEBE is an accountant by training and has suffered health and financial challenges during his path to founding FEBE.com. It has taken him many years to find himself doing something he thoroughly loves but with the support of others is relishing his new challenge.
What really shone through from all our speakers was their authenticity and passion about finding ways to build resilience. The audience, including myself, were all inspired and humbled by their stories. To be able to go through the experiences they have faced yet want to help others, and use these experiences to strengthen their own resilience.
Top tips for building resilience
Many of our audience were keen to hear tips for building resilience and what our panel do to help them in their everyday lives.
A key theme which emerged was the need to look after yourself and track your emotions. What works for one person doesn’t necessarily work for everyone, and so it’s important to know yourself and what you need to do to look after yourself. It could be carving time out for a run first thing in the morning, not looking at devices after a certain time at night or spending time with others who lift you up.
One tip which particularly resonated was the need to manage your energy not your time. Too often people say they feel they don’t have time to do something, when it’s because their time has been spent on other activities and their energy has been sapped. Trying to do more of what is good for you and energises you is a good way to build resilience. This also feeds into a point that was raised about knowing when you need to recover to be at your best. It is not always possible to do everything all of the time, sometimes the best way to look after ourselves is to pause, reflect and take some time. There was acknowledgement and agreement from all our speakers that there are always going to be boundaries that have the potential to hold you back, but it’s important to feel confident to push them when it’s important to you.
I found the following three tips to be key takeaways and will definitely be recommending them:
- Think about SHED (Sleep, Hydration, Exercise and Diet) when you feel your resilience waning.
- Write down how you are feeling for 30 days. Look for patterns as to when you are feeling at your best.
- Talk to someone about your feelings. Asking for help can sometimes feel like a weakness, but it’s actually a strength.
