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Q1.
Where has your resilience been working against you rather than for you?
Journal: Resilience increases your capacity to tolerate chaos, which means the more resilient you are, the more chaos you are likely to be exposed to. Where in your life have you been tolerating something you should have addressed, changed or walked away from? What has that tolerance been costing you?
Q2.
How long have you been living between surviving and recovering, and what opportunities has that cycle been stealing from you?
Journal: Be honest about the timeline. When did recovery start being the best you ever feel? What was the last thing the Performance Erosion Loop took from you, i.e: your confidence, your clarity, your joy, your health, your sense of control?
Q3.
Are you coping with stress or effectively managing it? What things in your life do you need to eliminate entirely?
Journal: Coping keeps you surviving. Managing puts you in a position to decide when and how to engage, and when not to. Write about one area of your life where you are currently coping. What would it look like to manage it instead? What strategy, boundary or decision would change the dynamic?
Q4.
Which fires are in your life right now, Controlled, Spreading or Hidden?
Journal: Stress is like fire: productive when well managed, destructive when mismanaged, catastrophic when unrecognised.
Take an honest audit of every area of your life right now: work, relationships, finances, health, family, personal commitments.
For each one, ask: is this a necessary fire, one that is taking you somewhere worthwhile and can be managed well? Is it an unnecessary fire, one that is burning your energy without a worthwhile return and needs to be put out? Or is it a hidden fire, one you have become so accustomed to that you have stopped recognising it as a problem at all?
The hidden fires are the most dangerous, not because they burn the hottest, but because you have normalised the heat.