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DAY 57/100 – RESILIENCE IS A DECISION, NOT A SKILL

22 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue by Scott Empringham arguing that resilience is a decision rather than an innate skill. The speaker describes overcoming the urge to stay in bed after an early alarm, describes a practiced morning routine (wake ~3:00 alarm, workout, by ~5:15–5:20 has read, journaled, meditated, read scripture, prayed, worked out) and the positive energizing effects of that routine.

Questions this video answers

October 22, 2024

About 5:15–5:20 (speaker says "it's 5:15. Yeah, 5:20")

Read, journal, meditate, read scripture, pray, and work out.

Chapters

Resilient is a decision. It's not a skill. There's times when my alarm goes off at three in the morning and I don't want to get up. Really? Yeah. In fact, a good majority of the time now it's pretty automatic. I get up tired and I just move through that process and that noise that used to be there that said go back to bed. Yeah. Now it knows. I mean, the program is I get up and I do my workout and what happens to me is about halfway through the workout I turn on and I get fired up. And so by the end of it, I'm feeling like a million bucks. I'm feeling ready to go. And by the way, it's 5:15. Yeah, 5:20. I've read, I've journaled, I've meditated, I've read scripture, I've prayed and I've worked out and get a couple hours work done before anybody gets up.