Resilience Workshop I: How to face and manage changes

Resilience Workshop I: How to face and manage changes

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In this first installment of the resilience workshop, Tomás Navarro, psychologist and writer, teaches ABC Bienestar readers how to face and manage change in times of uncertainty

This is how we are going to work in the workshop: «Your life can be broken into a thousand pieces, but you can rebuild yourself»

El cultural, it is inherent in life but we have everything we need to live a dynamic and unstable life.

Until we accept that the only stable thing is that “life is change” we cannot feel strong and secure. But do not worry, in this first chapter of the resilience workshop I have proposed to teach you how to manage the change. Here are my nine tips to better accept and manage changes.

1. Complaint and reproach are useless

Complaining, anger and reproaches are useless, all you are doing is consuming precious time that you should invest in analyzing the change and looking for the best strategies to manage it.

2. Life is dynamic and unstable

Maybe someone made you believe that you were going to have a job,

 a couple and a house for life. Well I’m very sorry but life is dynamic and unstable, in the same way that it happens with mobile software, we need to go updating our schemes and our ideas about reality.

3. Take action

Overcome the fear of change. Get mobilized, take action. Venture beyond your comfort zone. Train actively, force yourself to assume small changesa training mode. You have a lot more resources than you think, but they won’t activate until you need them.

4. Libera tu resistencia

Unlock your resistance to change. Maybe at some point you suffered and had a bad time; but the cause of your suffering was not the change itself, but your reaction to change.

5. Analyze the change

Analyze the change carefully. Carefully analyze the reasons for the change, the implications it has and the consequences that the change will bring. Be very careful with your conclusions, you Insights it cannot be biased since you would end up overvaluing the advantages of the change or magnifying the disadvantages derived from the change.

6. Beware of selective attention

Be careful with the selective attention. Your mind resonates with your emotional state. If you are happy you will think in a positive key, if you are sad you will think in a negative key. Every change implies a new scenario in which you can find problems to solve and opportunities to enjoy.

7. Is it uncomfortable or negative?

Don’t mistake an uncomfortable consequence for a negative consequence. Abandon tremendous or victimizing attitudes and adopt a constructive and realistic attitude. If you focus your attention on the uncomfortable consequences that any change has, you would never do anything.

8. Go beyond change

When you analyze the consequences of the change, do not limit yourself to assessing only the short term. The better changes They are usually uncomfortable in the short term but beneficial in the medium and long term.

9 Anticipate

Anticipate change, do not expect a change, which was predictable, bursts like a wild herd of elephants in your life. Identify the possible changes that may occur in the future and anticipate them, this way they will not catch you by surprise.

How to follow the resilience workshop

After reading these nine recommendations to learn how to manage change, remember to watch the video that accompanies this news as it will help you settle your ideas and better understand some of the keys with which we are going to work.

And when will I be able to read the next chapter? The resilience workshop is divided into 6 deliveries that will be published every 2 weeks on ABC Bienestar. After this first episode, the next appointments are: March 2, March 16, March 2, March 16, March 30, April 13 and April 27. Only ABC Premium readers will be able to access this workshop.