Build resilience before you need it!

https://marchordie.com/episodes/how-to-build-resilience-before-the-crisis-hits/

What This Episode Is About

Most people wait for the hard season to arrive and then go looking for strength. Dr. Peterson makes the case that the reserve has to be built first, on ordinary days, before the crisis sends the bill. Drawing on his fight with cancer and a stroke, he and Jeremy unpack a four-part resilience model, the warning from his physician father-in-law that reorganized his life, and the daily choices that keep a person marching when lying down would be easier.

What You’ll Take Away

• Why resilience is a reserve you build in advance, not a feeling you summon in the moment.
• The four-part model Dr. Peterson lives by: mindset, intentional action, community, and discipline.
• What it means to pre-decide who you will be, before the difficulty comes.
• How to own your part of a hard situation without sliding into self-punishment or blame.
• Why his stroke recovery was harder than his cancer, and what that reveals about the real battlefield.
• How honesty and humor keep a person standing in the ugliest seasons.

Quotes Worth Sitting With

“This really has very little to do with your body. This is all about your mind. If you can’t control your mind, when you get to the end of this, you will not be the same person.”

“So much of resiliency is really a choice. It’s my decision to choose if I’m going to be resilient.”