Adam Markel (author of Pivot) presents a short resilience tip urging viewers to 'nurture your soul' by intentionally placing one small, meaningful moment into each day. He recommends individuals identify a daily reward they can reliably enjoy (his example: nightly binge-watching/date time with his wife) and suggests leaders ask team members the same question to build more resilient teams.
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Hi, I'm Adam and I'm a resilience guy. I've spent my entire career focused on what it takes to be at your best, even in the most challenging conditions, including writing the best selling book on resilience called Pivot. Here's one powerful tip that you and your teams can use today. I want you to focus on how it is that you are nurturing your soul. Everybody is so busy these days and busy in new ways, of course. And one thing that I think is really important is that we provide ourselves with some new meaningful moment in each day. So checking in with your teams, checking with the people that you care about, that you want to know that you care about them, really involves asking them some really important questions, such as, what are you doing for yourself today? Meaning what's one thing that you can place in your day, that you can intend for your day that will really return a tremendous dividend to your soul? So, for me, it's knowing that in the evening, I get to sit down and binge watch a show with my wife. And throughout the day, even though the days are so busy, there's so much going on, so many directions that I'm sometimes being pulled in. And yet I look forward to that one little thing at night sometimes my wife and I, we call it a little date night or whatever. It is just something that we do on a ritual basis and I look forward to it during the day. So what's one thing that you can do for yourself today that you can set out as sort of a carrot, but not the carrot that, you know, that carrot that we never can quite get, but the carrot that we can eat every day, that's the carrot that nurtures our soul. And if you've got a team, then you can reach out to the members of your team and ask them the same thing. What's one thing that they've set for themselves today, Something that they can look forward to to reward themselves, to reward their soul. I hope that helps. And of course, it's a small thing that can pay a big dividend when it comes to creating more resilient teams.
