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• burdened with anxiety and stress, the freedom to choose provides respite. These conscious acts of choosing how we focus our attention are how we create space to what truly matters to us.
• One of the most dramatic has been a shift from a so-called ‘medical model’ with its emphasis on ‘fixing deficits’ in people to a strength-based perspective that places the spotlight on identifying and utilizing each person’s strengths or what I have referred to as their ‘islands of competence.’
• I assumed that the more precisely we could identify those characteristics that defined the mindset and behaviors of resilient individuals, the more we could
• develop strategies to nurture resilience in both our children and ourselves.
• I discovered that one key attribute of resilient individuals was their adherence to a lifestyle rooted in what I have labeled ‘personal control.’ Resilient people demonstrated an impressive capacity to focus their time and energy on situations over which they had some control or influence rather than on situations in which they had little, if any, ...