{"id":9218,"date":"2018-01-29T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merig.com\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2019-10-09T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T19:10:40","slug":"resolve-to-be-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/2018\/01\/29\/resolve-to-be-resilient\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolve to Be Resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The love of your life has died suddenly. Can you imagine feeling joy ever again?<br \/>\nSheryl Sandberg went through this experience. She&#8217;s written a book about it, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/optionb.org\/book\">Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience\u00a0and Finding Joy<\/a><\/strong>. She believes resilience is like a muscle and can be built up, that life is never perfect, and doesn&#8217;t always go according to plan. &#8220;We all live some form of Option B.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An FBI Agent (and former &#8220;fancy department store buyer&#8221;), <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartbrief.com\/original\/2017\/05\/heres-how-resilient-people-approach-life\">shares her thoughts on resilience<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; discovered from her earliest experiences at the FBI Academy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accept that it&#8217;s not all about you. &#8220;You don&#8217;t need more mantras or affirmations; you need a better way to look at your world.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Refuse to play the blame game. &#8220;Life is hard. Pain is inevitable. Growth is optional.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bring it on. Getting knocked down is part of life&#8230;getting back up is, too.<\/li>\n<li>Stop trying to be happy. Happiness is an emotion that draws its power from others. Joy is an attitude that depends only on you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The gym is crowded in January. This muscle can be exercised anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The love of your life has died suddenly. Can you imagine feeling joy ever again? Sheryl Sandberg went through this experience. She&#8217;s written a book about it, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience\u00a0and Finding Joy. She believes resilience is like a muscle and can be built up, that life is never perfect, and doesn&#8217;t always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15274,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions\/15274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}