Resilience is probably the most important personal characteristic there is. As in the success oriented saying,“ 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration”, resilience is the ability to continue despite barriers - the ability to continue perspiring, while being inspired. Many may call this faith - or blind stupidity, depending on the situation.

Fundamentally, resiliency is how you or I process information. Resilience is the characteristic that allows a person to see the glass is half full, as opposed to half empty. That is resiliency.

Small, incremental differences are, it seems, the smallest but most powerful forces in success, success in every place and in every way. Think of it, what situation can you think of that a slight change, repeated over time, won't make a significant difference? I can’t think of many.

This brings me to the point of this article: financial growth is the same, it needs small, incremental increases, slight increases over slight increases, gradually, the trend grows and the direction is determined. Choosing a resilient, determined, measured process, one that incrementally moves in the desired direction is the way to move to the desired goal.

Maybe I've missed something, it can't be that simple! Yet it is. Most ways of achieving are incremental, most ways to success are step by step, in the "right" direction, it really doesn't matter how little the steps are, they are all essential. So, if you are ever disappointed in the slowness of progress, or the delay of a start, don't dismay, progress is progress, movement degree by degree is still movement. And, qualitative movement is greater than any other kind. What do I mean by that? Lets take a business example, if company A makes more widgets by extending hours of work, great they make more widgets, if company B makes more widgets by changing how they make widgets through new machinery, that is superb!

Why? The fundamental precept of making widgets is now different.

Movement through shifting is the key, determination provides the direction, and resilience the "decision" to move forward despite reason not too ie. (cost of new equipment or " effort").

Is resilience effort? No. Resilience is the perception of difficulty, the perception of amount of effort to be demanded. Resilience is the ability to view the required effort to achieve goals as minimal, and unremarkable. This is assisted through viewing barriers as having a negligible impact on determined direction and thus having little or no impact on the probability of achieving future goals.

Resilience is being oblivious, to a certain extent, to the entirety of the potential negative impacts of a circumstance. This somewhat naive approach is very self serving, it confines effort to the direction already decided. It conserves energy. Energy that could be wasted moving in an alternate direction to what has been decided.

Resilience is the better strategy as it acknowledges but selectively downplays potential negative issues.

Personally, being a diehard realist and being very analytical on top of it all, this approach is hard for me to implement, though I do understand the advantage. What resilience teaches me, is not to focus on potential negatives, it allows me to acknowledge them, but tells me not to dwell on them ... being somewhat oblivious is advantageous!