Overcome Desperation - Build Resilience

Housing crisis reaches full boil in East Point; 62 injured

Headline from Atlanta News
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/housing-crisis-reaches-full-589653.html

In the last few days, over 30,000 people waited in Atlanta, Georgia for over 3 days in stifling heat in an attempt to gain some relief to their housing issues. In desperation and anger, people were and a city were horribly injuried. This headline is not necessarily unusual today, in fact it is becoming quite common place.

What is one way to overcome this increasing sense of desperation?

Build resilience.

Merriam Webster defines resilience as:

a: capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture b : tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

“We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy
affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways.
In particular, it affects their levels of motivation
and perseverance in the face of obstacles.
Most success requires persistent effort,
so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process.
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy,
strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles
and inequities of life.”
Albert Bandura
Canadian Psychologist

ABC's to build resilience:

Assess your current assets and capabilities.

Believe these assets and and capabilities are talents that will help you overcome any obstacle

Create a support system that gives you valuable and productive feedback.

This is just a start, but it's better than sitting there in quiet or public desperation. Wouldn't you agree?