Resilience In Where There´s A Will, There's A Way

In life, I face obstacles that I must learn to overcome. I encounter obstacles everyday trying to organize large groups of surgeons and accommodate their surgery, clinical and personal schedules to get them to an educational meeting. In the article “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way” written by Anna Harrington, she reflects on how resilience is important when trying to solve stressful situations.

“Resilience is defined as an attitude that enables the individual to examine, enhance and utilize the strengths, characteristics and other resources available to him or her”. (Harrington, 2012) By learning how to manage resilience in the key elements of your life such as your emotions, spiritual and social relationships, along with how to deal family situations and placing a positive spin on obstacles that arise will help reduce stress. I find that I use resilience when a trying to organize a group of people with many moving parts and they are creating their own agenda, this is when I use the emotion element relating to resilience. It is important that I can work through stressful situations and manage my emotions within my personal life as well as in

I always try to understand the surgeons I work with are extremely busy and they are pulled away from their patients and families when one of my events occur. I try to be as accommodating as possible and practice resilience when working with others. With it not always being easy to replace a negative with a positive, I lean on my spiritual, social and family support as much as I can to make that happen. It is important that we place our self around those who allow us to produce positive vibes and for us to be resilient during stressful times in our lives. By developing resilience this will allow a person to overcome any challenge that is presented to them and help them to gain additional knowledge from there