How To Improve Your Resilience and Patience

5 Tips for Improving Your Resilience and Patience

Duane Michael
3 min readMar 14, 2022

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5 Tips for Improving Your Resilience and Patience

You may not be as resilient and patient as you would like to be, but you can improve both of these qualities by incorporating these five tips into your life. They are simple, yet effective ways to practice resilience and patience in your everyday life, so you can become a more resilient and patient person overall.

Understand How You React To Emotions

How do you typically react to stressful situations? That may seem like a silly question, but understanding how you’re wired will go a long way in helping you improve your resilience. Don’t worry, it is possible to develop more patience or resilience. In fact, studies have shown that both qualities can be strengthened with regular practice, something a few minutes per day is all it takes! Here are some more tips to get started

Become Aware Of Your Personality Type

One of the best ways to improve your patience is to become aware of your own personality type. Some people are more sensitive to certain situations, so it’s important to understand how you react.

Once you know your personality type, you can work on improving yourself with steps that work best for you. For example, if you’re an introvert or an empath, one way to improve your resilience is by establishing boundaries around what others can do and say.

If you notice that something makes it harder for you to keep calm, then create a new habit such as learning a hobby where people don’t put pressure on you or avoid it altogether until your patience improves in time.

Set Realistic Goals

Goal setting is a vital part of improving your resilience. Not only does goal setting give you something to work towards, but it also gives you a sense of purpose in what you do.

However, when setting goals make sure they are realistic so that when life throws unexpected challenges at you, or if there is an inevitable setback, you don’t feel like quitting. Make sure your goals are not too…

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Duane Michael

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