10 Ideas to Begin Now to Bounce Back Better in 2024

Summary: If you’re ready for a better career, a better life, better growth, then these 10 ideas for bouncing back better will help you clear the mental clutter holding you back. Build your personal resilience with these ideas. We always face obstacles in life, resilience is how well we bounce back from them.

Whether you’ve already begun achieving the life you want, or you feel frustrated with false starts, challenges and lots of effort that’s not producing results, I wanted to create a new guide for 2024. If improving yourself was an album, these would be the greatest hits.

In this Bounce Back Better Guide, you’ll understand how to increase your personal resilience and let go of the mental clutter holding you back. When you increase your personal resilience, you increase your ability to handle and recover from setbacks. With practice, we bounce back better each time. Here are 10 ideas for how you can bounce back better.

Bounce Back Better Guide

Set Powerful Intentions to Achieve Any Goal

Setting goals for many of us isn’t motivating. It’s cumbersome. It’s frustrating when goals face roadblocks after several attempts. What works instead is setting an intention. Say out loud the thing you want to achieve. When you create a powerful intention, the purpose supersedes any goal for how you might get there. What if instead of goals this year, you set an intention, take action and move forward?

Shift Your Mindset from Lack to Love

Perfectionism, judgment and feelings of frustration are present when you use a negative mindset. If you find it happens daily, you’re operating from a place of fear. It’s hard (if not impossible) to harness your full potential from here. A fear mindset will cloud your ideas, decisions and clarity. It also limits your potential. What if you shift into a learning mindset?

Change Your Perspective on Handling Setbacks

We may not always appreciate it within the moment, yet deep learning always includes setbacks. These setbacks help us recalibrate ourselves to what we really want. If we never experienced setbacks, we would swim in an ongoing sea of calm waters and status quo. So boring! Consider taking the setbacks and finding the lesson learned in them. What if setbacks are feedback to correct course?

Align to What You Really Want

You know what you don’t want, so start to walk the path towards what you do want. To be self-solid in life, you need heart and backbone along with knowing what's really important for you. If you haven’t defined your personal values, maybe now’s the right time. When we live our values more fully, we find more peace, happiness and fulfillment. What if your personal values act as an inner compass?

Release Your Inner Limits

There are four kinds of inner limits - Stories, Excuses, Limiting Beliefs and Fears. These limits are the parts of your Self that no longer serve you. Think of them like anchors holding you back from reaching your potential. By releasing them, you lift higher. What happens when you expand into your biggest self?

Seek Instant Feedback

The gap between where you are and where you want to be can seem daunting at times. So to close the gap on your own, you can consider asking for feedback. Try the habit of asking your friends and family or a trusted colleague. With time, you will develop your confidence to ask acquaintances for instant feedback. It takes a few seconds, and can sound as simple as “What do you think?” or “How am I doing?” What if you sought instant feedback more often?

Press Reset on Your High Expectations

Achievers and high performers learn to excel in high stakes and expectations. So what happens when the achiever starts to apply high expectations to everything? You might face high levels of disappointment on high levels of effort that aren’t called for. Consider pressing reset, and take a step back to learn what’s true for you now. What if your stress is due to outdated high expectations?

Design Your Own Accountability Checkpoints

You have a brilliant vision for what you want to have happen, yet it keeps getting pushed out. If your dreams are on a back burner, challenge yourself to check-in. You can practice this every week, every month or at an interval that works for you to bring your Ultimate Future forward. What can I accomplish when I have regular and reliable accountability?

Redefine Success

If you’re like most professionals, your definition of success in your career and life was set in your 20s. And if your 20s were some time ago, it may be time to redefine success. So take a moment now to redefine success for your Ultimate Future. What does it mean to achieve success?

Unlearn to Transform

People assume that to make a change in yourself, you need to learn a new skill or read that latest book. It is equally important what you unlearn too. What do you need to unlearn in order to transform your life?

If you’d like to have a sounding board for what’s holding you back, book a dedicated 45-minute discovery session. This free call gives you instant feedback, and is a no-obligation way to experience coaching and accountability. You can also join my free monthly masterclass events to help you breakthrough.