As leaders, our products are the decisions that we make that steer our organizations. So, how do you make the highest-quality decisions, day in and day out, regardless of distractions, whether from the outside world or your personal life? Cultivating emotional resilience is a huge part of the answer. This week, we talk about the benefits of emotional resilience, and how your ability to accept challenges and move forward is tied to your success as a leader. Hallie and I both share ways that we’ve built up our emotional resilience, and why you may not need to go too far out of your comfort zone to get started.
In this episode, you will learn about:
- How to cultivate emotional resilience
- The benefits of emotional resilience
- How to become a better leader
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Timestamps:
[1:02] Emotional resilience is our ability to adapt to stressful situations, challenges, or crises. It is important in leadership because leaders are constantly faced with making decisions and being part of situations that may make them lose their center of balance.
[2:46] As a leader, our product is making decisions. Leaders spend too much time on two-way decisions and not enough time on important and impactful one-way decisions.
[5:11] How you gain control of your life is actually by giving up control of your life.
[9:44] Building emotional fitness helps you get clearer on the decisions you are making, whether in person or over email or the phone. If you work on cultivating your emotional resilience, you can get back to your emotional baseline more quickly.
[12:02] There will always be challenging moments of setbacks. Emotional resilience doesn’t make them go away or things get easier, but it makes you bounce back quicker and better.
[12:51] Great leaders are proactive about working on themselves.
[16:15] We discuss what pushing yourself out of your comfort zone would look like. To us, it’s already doing what you are doing, just having new experiences that align with your values.
[21:06] Hallie is gaining emotional resilience with the 75 Hard challenge in dedicating herself to the required tasks every day.
[21:39] Stop trying to please others and you see your mistakes as a way to learn and grow.
[24:00] As you trust your intuition more, you are less tied to other people for feeling good.
[25:01] As you build more emotional resilience, you are able to communicate more effectively. You wear less of a mask and you can be more yourself.
