"Harnessing Your Inner Resolve"

Life can be an amazing journey, but it can also occasionally take the wind out of your sails. When difficult situations make you feel insecure, you may tap into an inner power that will help you get through almost anything.

To get started, try these suggestions:

1. Consider the hard moments you've previously experienced. Consider how you overcame it. How did you act? How did you feel? Telling yourself what? As you complete this activity, your resilience will become clear, giving you genuine hope for the future in overcoming other challenges.

• Acknowledge that you overcame such trying circumstances. Then consider what you are going through at this moment. Is the current circumstance similar to your previous ones or very different from them?

2. Develop a supportive, encouraging internal dialogue. You can strengthen your inner strength by doing this.

• Tell yourself what will motivate and inspire you the most, just as if you were talking to your best friend. What do you want to hear the most? What is it that you need to hear in order to regain your strength? Do you have any specific expectations for the future?

• Work on sending yourself affirming, upbeat messages. The messages you give yourself can either be counterproductive or they can help you get through even the most trying situations.

• Talking positively and respectfully to yourself helps you develop inner strength so that it will be available for you when you need it. You'll have yourself to rely on if things go difficult.

3. Give yourself enough time to consider whatever the circumstance is. It's acceptable to be perplexed.

What strategies do you have for surviving the storm? Examine each and every solution you can think of. Describe your plan of action to yourself in detail.

• Your capacity to find creative solutions to difficult problems demonstrates your own ingenuity.

4. Think about the mentors or role models you look up to. You choose them because you admire and respect them. They are strong enough to inspire you to be like them.

• Take into account their moral character. Why do you think they possess it? How does that strength appear? How does it show up?

5. Consider what you've accomplished or endured. Perhaps it was seeing you could take care of yourself after moving out on your own for the first time.

• You found your inner resources and overcame those situations, despite the fear you may have experienced, unease, lostness, or confusion you may have felt.

• You'll remember your inner strength when you reflect on how you dealt with those circumstances and made it through.

• By reflecting on the moments that make you proud, you can discover your own ingenuity.

6. There are times when you simply have to "fake it till you make it." You undoubtedly remember a time when you were apprehensive or unsure that you could succeed, but you nevertheless got up and took the task on.

Even at the most trying times, you can find your inner strength. You'll find your confidence and resourcefulness if you take the aforementioned actions. And you can manage anything if you have this self-awareness!