When you need an instant mood boost or a quick tip to get you through the week – or the next 15 minutes – Resilience in Focus can help. This series of resilience-building tools and infographics cover common challenges like how to make stress work for you (stress can be good, really), become more optimistic (it is possible!), cultivate mindfulness (what is that exactly?), or stick to your goals (at last!). Start by exploring some of the topics below, and when you have time to learn more, reach out to your nearest R2 Performance Center to schedule an individual or group workshop.

Deliberate Attention Control

Attention control is a skill that allows us to shift our focus to successfully perform a task. Dr. Robert M. Nideffer and Roger C. Sharpe developed. a model of attention control that shows how individuals tend to shift attention during a performance.

Boost Your Confidence

Confidence is your belief in your ability to accomplish a given task. Being confident is associated with greater psychological well-being, increased motivation and prolonged persistence in tasks, as well as a greater likelihood of successful behavior change.

Practice Self-Regulation

A critical aspect of personal and professional growth is learning to control your thoughts, emotions and behaviors. This aspect of life is known as self-regulation, which is the regulation of impulses, emotions, physiology and behaviors.

Culture of Trust

Trust can be challenging to build yet easy to break, even unintentionally. While no one person determines a culture of trust, leaders have far-reaching influence with their decisions and behaviors.

Practice Mental Agility

Mental agility enhances the ways you respond to stress and helps you reason critically while keeping your mind open to multiple options. What’s more, mental agility allows you to make your thoughts and emotions work for you during challenging tactical, physical or work-related events.

Maintain and Sustain Optimism

Being optimistic is about being grounded in reality and realizing that there is good happening around you, separate from the bad. Optimism is a skill that takes deliberate practice to develop.

Goal Setting With WOOP

The WOOP strategy will help you on your journey. It stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle and Plan. This quick four-step technique contrasts people’s dreams with their challenges to move them forward toward their goal.

Mental Resilience Page

Our ability to notice how our emotions and thoughts are either getting in our way or helping us thrive is critical to our resilience and success. Resilience does not mean being happy all the time. The art of resilience is the ability to experience the right emotion at the right time. These skills will help you build your mental resilience.

Spiritual Resilience Page

Spiritual readiness is the ability to sustain oneself through all aspects of life, especially during times of stress, hardship or tragedy. It involves improving one’s spiritual posture through a self-directed process and is informed by one’s religious, philosophical and human values. These core values form that individual’s sense of purpose, identity, motivation, character and integrity. They enable one to build inner strength, make meaning of experiences, behave ethically, persevere through challenges and be resilient in the face of adversity.

Physical Resilience Page

Being physically resilient can build self-confidence and the ability to lead yourself and others through tough situations in life. People who get enough sleep, exercise daily and eat nutritious foods can improve their performance. In addition, there are ties between physical and mental health. Having a strong physical body can translate into sharper mental power. These tools can help you build your physical resilience.

Social Resilience Page

Our connection to other people is a critical component of remaining resilient throughout our lives. Even if you have only one close relationship in your life, you are significantly more likely to overcome challenges and setbacks than if you are in it alone. Building and maintaining relationships can be tough. These skills can help you learn how to get and remain close to people you care about.