When I face moments in which I feel overwhelmed, one of the things that I try to do is to stand back from the situation. It isn’t easy to emotionally detach from some scenarios and get a different perspective. When you can step away and see the challenge from a different perspective it can change the size and significance of the problem and your ability to keep on keeping on.

A friend texted me from the airport, he was in a tough place. As the executive of a UK business he was about to fly half way round the world for a 2 hour meeting with his global CEO and then fly back again. The quarterly results were not good in fact they hadn’t been for more than a year. No matter how hard he tried he couldn’t help but think that the axe might fall. In the conversation that followed his text he was able to reframe his situation, gain a different perspective on the options that were available to him. In short he was able to improve resilience.

The practical step by step approach to improve resilience by reframing your situation is to ask yourself:

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• What is the best possible outcome to my current situation?
  
• What is the worst possible outcome in my current situation?
  
• Is the best possible outcome worth the risk of the worst possible outcome?
  

Reframing your situation is a battle of the mind. It is all too easy to lose perspective and feel overwhelmed. So much of resilience is about keeping a strong mental attitude about your current circumstances and how they will be transformed as you take small steps into the future. As was once said ‘if you can’t do great big things at least do great little things!’

Question: What situation could you reframe in order to improve resilience?

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