ReThink Resilience

99 Ways to Recharge Your Career and Life

Beth Benatti Kennedy, Karthik Venkatakrishnan, Songma Ben Zheng

• Publisher: River Grove Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781632998422
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Success

Do you want to be able to constructively manage change? Navigate stressful situations? Transform challenges into opportunities?

 

Do you want to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment?

 

The key is resilience!

 

Authors Beth Benatti Kennedy, Karthik Venkatakrishnan, and Songmao (Ben) Zheng, with a shared passion for helping others succeed, have focused for years on discovering what builds resilience. In this pivotal guidebook, they share their resilience-boosting ideas, curated from the breadth of their professional experiences across diverse sectors of practice and life journeys.

 

For those who want to be resilient, ReThink Resilience provides 99 actionable and practical suggestions for boosting resilience that can be readily integrated into your work and life.

 

The 99 boosters focus on the five strategies of the Benatti Resiliency Model®—Well-being, Self-awareness, Brand, Connection, and Innovation. The model, developed by Beth Benatti Kennedy over her 25 years of leadership coaching, has helped thousands of people develop the resilience to adapt to changing career circumstances, remain productive and engaged, and find greater life and career satisfaction.

 

ReThink Resilience also includes inspiring perspectives and stories from 16 “Resilience Champions,” people known to the authors who model resilience.

 

Embark on your transformative journey to resilience today with ReThink Resilience!

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Cover
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Adjust your computer screen to protect your eyes.
• 2. Appreciate and learn from animals even if you don’t have one.
• 3. Ask for help.
• 4. Be mindful in designing your living space.
• 5. Breathing is magic.
• 6. Capture vivid memories via pictures.
• 7. Declutter your desk and computer files.
• 8. Exercise.
• 9. Express gratitude often.
• 10. Get creative with your calendar when working from home.
• 11. Give intermittent fasting a try.
• 12. Go to sleep.
• 13. Harness the power of meditation.
• 14. Infuse exploration, entertainment, and fun while traveling for work.
• 15. Plan your vacations for the year.
• 16. Plant something.
• 17. Put your own oxygen mask on first.
• 18. Recharge with nature.
• 19. Reduce commute stress and get adequate sleep with active calendar management.
• 20. Set aside time every day for you.
• 21. Set yourself positive examples in your daily routine so that they become positive habits.
• 22. Start meetings five minutes late and end meetings five minutes early.
• 23. Start your day with a minute of virtual exploration.
• 24. Stay hydrated with your drink of choice.
• 25. Stress can be your friend.
• 26. Switch your work environment.
• 27. Take mini-breaks between meetings and projects.
• 28. Use a to-do list.
• 29. Vegetables and fruits can boost your energy.
• 30. Write in a personal journal.
• 31. Accept and encourage feedback from others.
• 32. Be curious and open to your feelings.
• 33. Begin your day with morning intentions.
• 34. Create a dream board or vision journal.
• 35. Create your own good luck.
• 36. Cultivate a beginner’s mindset.
• 37. Cultivate equanimity.
• 38. Embrace change and transition.
• 39. Incorporate scenario planning and decision trees.
• 40. Invest your time in what’s most important.
• 41. Learn to cope with ambiguity while proactively seeking clarity.
• 42. Let go of negative stressors.
• 43. Listen to your gut.
• 44. Live and let live.
• 45. Manage your “yes” reflex.
• 46. Move out of your bias blind spot.
• 47. Name your emotions.
• 48. Normalize failure.
• 49. Observe the observable, control the controllable, and accept the uncertainty of life.
• 50. Own your mistakes, embrace them, learn from them, and move on.
• 51. Recognize that all feelings are messengers.
• 52. Reflect on your ikigai to maximize professional fulfillment.
• 53. Reframe negative thoughts for positive action.
• 54. See the glass as half-full.
• 55. Talk to yourself in creative, positive, and constructive ways.
• 56. Understand and focus attention on your circle of control.
• 57. Unleash the child within you!
• 58. Be a solution provider.
• 59. Communicate your brand.
• 60. Define your professional brand.
• 61. Develop your own career board of directors.
• 62. Document your achievements.
• 63. Focus on your strengths for a more meaningful life.
• 64. Follow up in a mindful way.
• 65. Have a purposeful on-site presence at work.
• 66. Introduce yourself with your brand.
• 67. Listen actively and practice appreciative inquiry.
• 68. Mitigate your email burden with email etiquette.
• 69. Pay attention to your reputation.
• 70. Project confidence, calm, and professionalism when faced with difficult situations at work.
• 71. Show empathy and respect for work-life balance in email communications.
• 72. Volunteer your time and talent.
• 73. Bring more fun and joy into your workday.
• 74. Connect outside your discipline.
• 75. Connect regularly with individuals “in your boat.”
• 76. Create boundaries with toxic people.
• 77. Engage in mentoring relationships.
• 78. Have a confidant.
• 79. Leave room for having non-forced fun with your co-workers.
• 80. Make a connection when traveling.
• 81. Approach artificial intelligence (AI) with curiosity.
• 82. Be inclusive and enable a diverse work setting.
• 83. Be proactive in exploring and interviewing for new job opportunities.
• 84. Break large tasks into doable pieces.
• 85. Explore continuous learning opportunities.
• 86. Get spontaneous.
• 87. Practice financial planning to allow you to enjoy life.
• 88. If what you’re doing now isn’t working, try doing something else.
• 89. Infuse variety in daily activities.
• 90. Learn a new language.
• 91. Make Sunday fun day.
• 92. Narrow virtual distances despite working remotely.
• 93. Opt for a secondment.
• 94. Play tourist where you live.
• 95. Practice timeboxing.
• 96. Set aside approximately 10 percent of your work time for innovation.
• 97. Take a cross-regional or international assignment.
• 98. Take time for professional innovation.
• 99. Share your stories and perspectives through writing.
• How to Make a Habit of Resilience
• About the Authors