[Music] resilience is a concept that has been showing up a lot for me lately in life between random articles I've read it's come up in speakers that I've had at some of my workshops I've heard it a lot so I've been reflecting on what resilience means and why it's so important being resilient is how we respond to the stressors and challenges and how our body responds so you know you always hear it's how you respond to a challenge that defines you not and your character but resilience is how your body is prepared in a weird way to respond to the stressors that come both mental and physical um and so how do you become more resilient and be prepared for those things well there's really two ways to become more resilient and focused and that is working on both your mental Fitness and your physical fitness so obviously the healthier you are um your body is if you have a physical setback like you sprain your ankle or something the faster you're going to heal from that because you're in better shape to start or if you have to go through a surgery if you're in better shape to start you recover faster so that's the physical aspect of resilience of a body the mental aspect though how you deal with stress and how your body tolerates both physical stress and mental stress is more from a mental Fitness standpoint what do you do to prepare yourself to deal with it handle stress how do you practice what it's like to undergo stress and how to handle it how do you get your body or your mind prepared so that when a challenge comes it doesn't go into flight mode and fight mode but instead it stays and looks at things from a greater perspective and it looks at it from an optimistic way of what's the opportunity here instead of oh my gosh the world is falling apart so by doing mental fitness exercises and that can be done through all kinds of things meditation positive intelligence there's lots of ways out there to get your brain more mentally fit to handle the challenges that come to it you become more resilient as a human so resilience is a concept think about it from a physical sense and a physical health as well as mental health standpoint what can you do to improve both your physical and mental health today that makes you more resilient for the challenges that you will face tomorrow [Music]