At the gym, personal trainers will remind you that strengthening your core is the foundation of any successful fitness program.

According to Dr. Paul Stoltz, strengthening your CORE is also essential for improving your resilience.

But in Dr. Stoltz’s vernacular, CORE is a helpful acronym for describing how you interpret and process adversity.

Control: This is the degree to which you believe you can influence whatever happens next.

Ownership: This is the likelihood you will take action to make a situation better.

Reach: This is the degree to which adversity spills over into other aspects of your life.

Endurance: This is your staying power to outlast a negative set of circumstances.

In simple terms, your resilience muscle starts to get stronger when you learn to proactively recognize and reframe the adversity coming your way.

Training your mind to reframe circumstances (in real time) sets you free to take the appropriate actions needed to address the situation and reduce your negative stress.

The details on how to make all this happen is beyond the scope of our discussion today. If you’re interested in learning more, you may want to read about Dr. Stoltz’s work on adversity.

Bottom line:  If you become more resilient and you hire individuals who are resilient, your team will substantially benefit. 

It’s the core strength of all high-performers.