“There’s no bad weather, there’s only inappropriate clothing,” my sister reminded me during a winter outing in Alberta.
“And a crappy attitude towards winter,” I thought as I watched her family play excitedly in the snow in their backyard while I stood in the doorway whining about how much I hated winter.
Given that I had moved to a warmer climate many years earlier, my clothing at the moment sucked, as did my attitude. My lack of weather resilience during the winter was one of the factors that prompted my move.
We are living in bad weather right now, if not literally wherever you are right now, then certainly figuratively. These are unpredictable times where “that could never happen” is indeed happening. Since most of us cannot control or influence much of that bad weather, we are left with donning appropriate clothing and attitudes.
This is the realm of personal resilience, the ability to thrive in the midst of any kind of situation. Thankfully I have developed a fair bit of personal resilience over the years, even if I still do struggle with winter.
Perhaps the first key to resilience is recognition that your life doesn’t have to be determined by what’s happening around you. We need to take a pause, and consider our path forward. My question to you is, “what clothing do you need right now to manage the weather?”
For more tips and strategies on personal resilience, it’s not too late to sign up for my online course which starts this week.
And watch this space as I will be revealing the 5 factors I consider central to personal resilience in 5 separate blogs over the next few weeks.
