Transform Your Survivor Brain Into Your Thriver Brain

We know Covid-19 is a significant stressor on a global scale. GRACE AND GRIT are your superpowers

Are you stagnating, emotionally reactive, dealing with new realities, and grieving losses?

The challenges are stressful, overwhelming, and trigger strong emotions.

Media reveals uncertainty, disruption, violence, political discord-and successful advances.

The pandemic has compounded the problems, the stress, and the trauma.

At a worldwide level, WE ARE ALL OUT OF OUR COMFORT ZONE and in this together.

What Can We Do?

• Our world is interconnected, fragile, and transforming into a new era.
• Rise to the challenge to move past comfort zones and upgrade internal strengths to function as superpowers.

How?

• Get excited about the individual and collective opportunity to evolve untapped potential into tangible qualities and solutions.
• Learn new skills, build character strengths, emphasize skillful conversation and social connection.
• Be generous and proud to contribute to the well-being of others.
• Create a retreat to heal internal trauma, alone and with others.
• Leverage actions into a healthy spiral of progress.
• Enjoy your life.

A Framework to Move Forward 

Turbocharge internal resources into new capacity and high-level effectiveness.

The challenge now for both individuals and collectively is to:

1. Build a foundation for new direction and commitment with self-compassion, mental strength, and empathy.
2. Amplify grit to persist, navigate setbacks, and focus on the big picture and purpose.
3. Broaden mindset and shift perspective to see future achievements.
4. Experience Grace as the source for magical resilience and expanded superpowers.

Take Action

1. Pick a challenging problem that requires a new solution.
2. Identify internal strengths to accomplish goals and elevate them to superpower status. Build a plan. Put into action, expect the best outcome, stay open and refine what is needed.
3. Invite Grace as a partner to magnify inner strengths, move past obstacles, and impact others with flow and synchronicity.

Create your superpowers with neuroplasticity and daily routine 

• Embed desired goals with positive practices and build new neural networks
• Watch your daily actions become Significant Positive Change.
• Celebrate achievements
• Maintain optimism. “I’ve got this.”

Apply Positive Self Talk. Repeat. 

I Happily Transform my Survivor Brain into My Thriver Brain

Rise and delight in successful shifts from the old to the new life-enhancing experiences.

Resistance shifts to resilience.   (R)

Indifference shifts to Inspiration. (I)

Solitary shifts to Social Connection (S)

Empty changes to Engaged Activity  (E)

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Susan Forster, a highly experienced expert, works across industries to deliver consulting, training, and executive coaching services that include respectful workplace communication, leadership, and cultural change. Clients benefit from their resilient, thriving, and skilled workplace. Susan speaks on many topics related to personal and organizational transformation. 

Ms. Forster has a master’s degree in Education from Boston University and earned two international Human Resource Certifications. 

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This post is republished on Medium.

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