Resilience in challenges
Resilience also means making our best use, primarily our energy. The more you run, the more your body learns to make the athletic gesture consuming the least possible quantity.
There is no room for waste. Starting from this assumption it is easy to understand how important it is to focus on the things you can check or in any case manage.
Focusing your attention on things on which you don't have the slightest control is a useless waste of energy. This is not only valid in the field of ultrarunning, it is a transversal concept applicable to every single context of our life.
Proactive or reactive?
Stephen Covey, the famous author, claimed that in our life there are two spheres: the sphere of concern and the sphere of influence . The sphere of concern is made up of everything we would like to change, but on which we have no power. The sphere of influence, on the contrary, is made up of all the areas on which we can intervene. In terms of resilience this is a very important concept, because depending on the sphere on which we invest most of our energies, we can define ourselves reactive or proactive. We are reactive if we spend most of our time with the attention focused on the sphere of concern. We are proactive if instead we focus most of our attention on the sphere of influence.
Resilience in challenges
I give you an example concerning my world, the world of ultrarunning: during an ultra trail it is not very productive to worry about the cold, rain and let this concern negatively influence our performance. Much better to be proactive and bring with us technical clothing capable of protecting us from the weather. There are several ways to improve resilience , in this case we can say that, to better face the challenges, it is important to focus our attention on the sphere of influence and better manage everything on which we have control. For all that we cannot control it is a good idea to equip ourselves and prepare ourselves by expecting us that the worst thing can happen. This, of course, applies to face any challenge with resilience : an ultra trail, the search for a new use, the construction of an intimate relationship. Mainly applies to the most important challenge: yours.
Where do you focus your energies during your challenge?
On the sphere of concern or on the sphere of influence?
Are you a reactive or proactive person?
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