{"id":19,"date":"2015-05-18T17:52:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourmorningcupofinspiration\/?p=19"},"modified":"2019-04-23T00:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T00:09:24","slug":"the-resilience-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourmorningcupofinspiration\/2015\/05\/the-resilience-muscle.html","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Being Resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You will find in life that doing what everyone else wants you to do will make you very popular.\u00a0 People will like you.\u00a0 Everyone will say nice things about you.\u00a0 Your family will hold you up as a role model.\u00a0 And, more likely than not, you won\u2019t accomplish God\u2019s purpose for your life.<\/p>\n

The hard truth is that in order to achieve your unique purpose, you have to get rid of the need to be popular.\u00a0 Popularity is based upon fitting in and doing what society considers to be worthwhile.\u00a0 However, people who do great things don\u2019t fit in.\u00a0 They do things that could expose themselves to ridicule.\u00a0 They think and write about things that might seem far-fetched.\u00a0 They have \u201cunrealistic\u201d goals.\u00a0 They live outside the box of what everyone thinks that they should be doing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It takes courage to follow God\u2019s plan for your life.\u00a0 And it takes resilience<\/em>.\u00a0 Resilience is a learned skill.\u00a0 You aren\u2019t born with it.\u00a0 It is a skill that has to be practiced and developed like a muscle.\u00a0 There are two components to resilience: (1) the ability to pick yourself up after failure or hardship, and (2) the complete disregard of the negative opinions of others.\u00a0 No one has ever achieved anything great without mastering those two things.<\/p>\n

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a wonderful example of the power of resilience in the face of hardship.\u00a0 FDR contracted polio in 1921, twelve years before he became president.\u00a0 As a result of the illness, he was paralyzed from the waist down.\u00a0 However, he did not allow this disability to stop him from achieving greatness.\u00a0 He compensated for his paralysis by teaching himself to \u201cwalk\u201d short distances in public by using a cane and swiveling his torso.\u00a0 This technique was painful, but he believed it was necessary so that voters could be confident in his health.\u00a0 By the time FDR had to lead the United States in WWII, his resilience muscle was a powerful one.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the ability to ignore the noise of critics and naysayers is critical to being able to do great things instead of doing merely what is \u201cexpected.\u201d\u00a0 Be aware that no one who tries to do anything good, meaningful or innovative is exempt from criticism.\u00a0 I was surprised to learn that even Mother Teresa\u2019s legacy has been subject to attack.\u00a0 So, if you are criticized for trying to make the world a better place, don\u2019t worry.\u00a0 Consider yourself in excellent company with the woman who was beatified by the Catholic Church for being so incredibly good.<\/p>\n

When you try to do something Big, with a capital B, the naysayers will come out in droves.\u00a0 Their comments tend to be dressed up as well-meaning concern: \u201cYou know, I have a friend who tried to do that, and they ran into one dead end after another.\u201d\u00a0 Or, \u201cSuch-and-such expert says that you just can\u2019t do that in today\u2019s marketplace.\u201d\u00a0 Or, \u201cI just don\u2019t want you to try and then be disappointed.\u201d\u00a0 What separates those who are able to achieve great things from those who can\u2019t is this:\u00a0 The ability to ignore all those \u201cwell-meaning\u201d comments.<\/p>\n

I used to think that people who got to the pinnacle of their professions were arrogant.\u00a0 Perhaps they are.\u00a0 But I now think that they are the people who shut out the noise.\u00a0 They don’t waste their time worrying about what you think of them.\u00a0 That ability to ignore others gives them the focus to achieve what their peers don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

All of this raises the question, “Why does God allow so many obstacles on our path when we are trying to achieve His purpose for our lives?”\u00a0 I believe that God permits boulders on our path so that we can work on our resilience muscle.\u00a0 You will find that the bigger your goal, the greater your boulders.\u00a0 If you can move those boulders, then you can handle the task He has set out for you.\u00a0 God wants to know that when you are doing His work, you will be able to withstand criticism.\u00a0 He wants to know that you\u2019ll keep on trying, even if you have some failures.<\/p>\n

So the next time that you face resistance on your path to achieving your dreams, don\u2019t worry.\u00a0 That opposition is simply an opportunity to do some heavy lifting to build up your resilience muscle, that very important muscle you need to achieve God\u2019s purpose for your life.<\/p>\n

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Email: yourmorningcupofinspiration@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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