If you slip up or stuff up, try and toughen up. Photo / Getty Images
If you slip up or stuff up, try and toughen up. Carry on. Be resilient. Also, have people around you who give a stuff about your success.
We can all fall down in life. Often. If not physically, then at least mentally. We can lose our jobs. Miss out on
promotions. Get sick. Feel emotionally bruised.
Life is a rollercoaster; it's full of ups and downs. It can be easy to go into shock when tough things happen, give up, be afraid to carry on and feel helpless. But if you can pick yourself up quickly and carry on, or find another way forwards, you'll thrive. Resilience is crucial to our happiness levels and wellbeing.
My son Finn, 6, learnt this the other day.
He fell over at the start-line of his school cross country on a muddy, freezing winter field. The right side of his face, body and leg was muddy. But he was mostly mortified.
