Resilience is the ability to recover rapidly from illness, change, or misfortune.  Why does resilience matter?  Studies have shown that those individuals who are resilient can weather adversity pretty well and suffer fewer consequences from the adverse event (compared to less resilient individuals).  What is interesting is that resilience isn’t static – you can influence how resilient you are with your mindset.  When you are confronted with illness, change or misfortune, do you adopt a “woe is me” attitude and take a passive stance, or are you an active participant in your own life and work toward a rapid recovery?  Next time that you are confronted with a problem, ask yourself how you could be more resilient against a bad outcome and work toward persevering with strength!