5 Ways to Feed Your Energy to Cultivate Positivity and Resilience

By Mindy Kantor

For anyone who travels, you know the drill, in case of emergency put your oxygen mask (or just buy a face mask for sale) on first before helping others. To cultivate a positive culture in any organization, you need to make sure your mind and body are infused with upbeat thoughts and vigor. Here are five easy ways to feed your energy to cultivate positivity and resiliency.

1. Exercise your mind and body. Release the chatter in your mind through breathing or stepping away from regular work. Take a few minutes daily to pause, listen and reflect. Listen to music, do
a meditation, take a walk or reach out to a trusted loved one or friend. If you browse this site you will understand to feed your body with healthy food and snacks, sit down, lay down or get up. Change your position and change your outlook.

2. Affirm your commitment. Shift your consciousness to make sure your words and actions are aligned.
Be open, honest and in balance with yourself. You will radiate with energy and confidence. Document
or say your commitment out loud. Be accountable in all that you do.

3. Understand preferences. We all have different preferences to how we approach life and work. There
are no right or wrongs. Take the time to understand them for yourself and others. You can uncover
more through taking different assessments such as a Myers-Briggs® or reading about different Types.
Once you learn to recognize these differences, you can learn to respect and celebrate them.

4. Foster healthy dialogue. Create a safe environment that allows people to share information in an
open and nonjudgmental manner. Be the leader in all that you do. Get to the root cause of issues and
collaborate to fix them. Schedule regular check-ins to keep the conversations going.

5. Recognize contributions from others. Maya Angelou said it best, “I’ve learned that people will forget
what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Show your appreciation through words of encouragement or small gestures. Take the time to
recognize the significant contributions others have made to your success. Take the time to celebrate
milestones and achievements.

What has worked well for you? Email us your ideas and successes at [email protected]. We will
then review and share them in our next newsletter.

Mindy Kantor is a Strategic Organizational Communication and Change Catalyst