We see a three-phase resilience cycle in how generative…

We see a three-phase resilience cycle in how generative families respond to change: 1. Prepare/anticipate: Even when they are not preparing for a specific change, the family expects and anticipates broad general changes such as the need to develop a new generation of family members or prepare for a shift in customers or products. They notice early warning signs and face their import. 2. Engage/decide: As a change approaches, generative families gather to con-sider what it means. They engage multiple family members and listen to differing points of view before they take action. 3. Redefine/renew: After the change, generative families do not go back to the way things were. They find a new path and work to implement it. While they respect tradition, they are able to let go of anything that is obsolete.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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Faith helps here: as Isaac understood it, the very challenge of confronting difficulty, and finding the faith to overcome it, is what makes a person better. There is even a rhythm the most resilient follow through any change: first they anticipate — expecting difficulty before it arrives and noticing the early warning signs; then they engage, gathering themselves and weighing what it means; and then they renew, refusing to crawl back to exactly how things were and instead finding a new path forward. And resilience can be deliberately built, on the same foundations as a flourishing life — positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment — with the deepest of them being a kind of spiritual fitness: the sense of belonging to and serving something larger than yourself. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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