What Keeps You Resilient?
Community and healthcare leaders share their secrets Many believe resiliency is a state of mind, body and spirit that helps us embrace our experiences, face our challenges, recover from loss and become stronger. Each of us has our own understanding of what keeps us going when we hit that wall and what is our own personal resiliency factor. Sun Health Foundation asked these community and healthcare leaders what keeps them going?
RON SYMIC Chair, Sun Health Foundation Events Committee Member, Sun Health Foundation Board of Trustees Learning to swim “I couldn’t be that kid standing at the top of a 10-foot diving board looking down and over thinking it, I had to take that leap.”
MICHAEL BARNES
“Over a 38-year carrier at JAL there were times it seemed everything was working against me, and I would often think of a quote by Henry Ford: ‘Remember that aircraft take off against the wind, not with it.’
Vice President Wealth Management, FineMark National Bank & Trust Member, Sun Health Foundation Board of Trustees
CINDY DAVIS Chief Nursing Officer Banner Boswell Medical Center “Resilience is being selfaware with the ability to bounce back, adapt, adjust to and recover from difficult or challenging experiences. I keep resilient with self-care, which includes a daily routine of meditation, reading, exercise, healthy food; along with connection to people who bring me joy — my spouse, children, grandchildren, close friends and church.”
“Resilience to me is to focus on what can be controlled, learn what I can from the challenges, and to be accountable to myself and to those who may need support.”
L. BIRT KELLAM Chair, Sun Health Foundation’s Generosity for Generosity Campaign; Member, Sun Health Foundation Board of Trustees
Mid life
“Helping raise philanthropic dollars for charitable organizations in our community has been a source of great pleasure in my life. When I see donors gifting to a charity in a major way, it makes me feel so happy because I know they will experience the many benefits of being involved in a meaningful way.
“Working at Japan Airlines and being responsible for reclamation of a 1985 crash site, resilience was knowing that I was the only one who had the power and the responsibility to pick myself up and keep going forward despite the obstacles.”
“On the other hand, if a prospective donor has told me that they do not want to be involved, it does make me feel sad, sometimes very sad, that they do not see the value to themselves and to the charity.
As a young adult “It’s my reaction to adversity, not adversity itself, that determines how my life’s story will develop.”
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At retirement
