Assess and Build Your Resilience

Resilience Project

How Resilient Are You? 

Take this quiz and find out 

The purpose of this quiz is only meant to help you to become more aware of your resilience; the result you get is by no means an absolute indication of how resilient you are.

How to Become More Resilient

Resilience is not a trait that people either have or do not have. It involves behaviors, thoughts, and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone. 

Resilient People:

Attribute Includes

Ways to Develop

Positive

  • View life as challenging but filled with opportunity
  • Appreciate the dangers and threats of change, but are not overwhelmed by them
  • Imagine the best outcome, not the worst
  • When faced with challenges and/or problems, focus on what you learned or can improved on next time
  • Acknowledge positive accomplishments during challenging times

Flexible

  • Open to different options when responding to uncertainty
  • Able to adapt to changing circumstances
  • Practice patience and keep a sense of perspective
  • View disruptions and ambiguity as a natural process of life
  • Try new things

  • Has vision of what is to be achieved
  • Able to set goals
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  • Persistent-able to work through obstacles
  • Evaluate your commitments, and create some short and longer term goals
  • Identify what is and what is not under your control

Organized

  • Set priorities
  • Structured approach
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  • Recognize when to delegate or seek assistance
  • Identify and schedule time to complete your immediate priorities
  • Select and use a system to stay organized and manage your time

Proactive

  • Engage in the change process
  • Apply lessons learned from past experiences to current situations
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  • Use resources creatively to reframe a situation
  • Address problems in early stages-don't avoid them
  • Have contingency or back up plans
  • Don't be afraid ( at times ) to reach out or ask for help

Healthy

  • Take care of mind and body
  • Pay attention to needs and feelings
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  • Engage in enjoyable outlets/activities
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  • Take time to relax and renew
  • Exercise/Mediate
  • Healthy eating
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  • Regular sleep/rest
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  • Community and social support
  • Acknowledge positive accomplishments during challenging times

The resources for how to become more resilient were extracted from the Tang Center Resilience and Renewal Workshop.