Source https://zenhabits.net/creating-resilience/
By Leo Babauta
When life is shaking us up and we’re feeling stressed … it can be tough to feel resilient.
Resilience helps us to deal with the chaos and overwhelm … but how to we create it when we feel like we’re underwater?
The first step is to remove things that are adding unnecessary stress. The second step is to do things that help us feel replenished.
Those two steps won’t get us all the way to full resilience, but they’re a huge huge start.
Remove Extra Stress
Some stress is inevitable — wishing for a life where we feel zero stress is just going to add more stress.
But if we are flooded with stress, removing some of it can help us to clear the space to create even more resilience. If we don’t remove the extra stress, we’ll never do the things we need to take care of ourselves, or to train our mi…