"Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

Resilient people understand that pain, misfortune and failure are not end points. They understand that although Americans are given the right to the pursuit of happiness, there is absolutely no guarantee of happiness; and if we happen to be blessed with happiness, it is just one of many positive and negative emotions that we will experience. It is a feeling; a mood. Not a destination.

Below are 5 tips to boost resilience:

• Find Meaning in Adversity. Every pain contains a lesson. Find a lesson that makes you feel better and align with it.
• Build a Community of Support. Equally important, decide that the support you're currently getting is good enough. Be grateful for it.
• Be Hopeful. Hope, like hopelessness, is actually a choice. We all periodically feel hopeless. Resilient people know who they are ~ and they do not define themselves by their momentary emotions. Choose hope.
• Focus on Gratitude. Keep a gratitude journal, or better yet, start a Gratitude Blog with a small group of friends. It takes ‘training' to see the glass as half full. Begin your training right now. What one thing are you grateful for today? The blog that you're reading for free?
• Accept & Anticipate Change. It's part of life, folks. And as humans, we do not heart change. Take this principal a step further and also accept and anticipate pain, rejection, misfortune and loss. If your goal is to cope effectively instead of avoiding such experiences, you'll indeed have built up the very important trait of resilience.

Source: Psychology Today