When I was growing up, my dad kept a vegetable garden.
He grew up in Luxembourg during WW2, and the garden he planted at that time helped keep his family safe and healthy during extreme food rationing.
It was an example of powerful resilience. 
After that, he did well in school, studied medicine, and went to America, which carried some risk, but also enormous opportunity.
He followed a pretty structured career path; linear and hierarchical.
After the fear and scarcity of the war, certainty in his career path made sense.
But I believe he loved having a garden later in life because it reminded him of his resilience.
Today, resilience isn’t just for occasional hard times.
Today’s successful professionals know how to pivot, and have for a long time. 
The business gurus of the 2000’s and 2010’s warned of accelerating change as if it were something we could back away from.
But Millennials, Gen Z’ers and some Gen X’ers (I like to include myself!) have versatility and resilience at the heart of their approach.
Without that, career can feel opaque, challenging, uncertain.
If you sometimes feel like you want more clarity, ease and certainty in your career, check out my new book: Confidence at Work.
The book expands on my I to the 4th Power principles. A quick look at those principles in the context of resilience:
- Impact: When you know your strengths, and how they work in practice, you can use them in a variety of situations; that opens up the possibility to flex to any number of roles.
- Influence: When you know how to manage relationships, you can feel less daunted by politics, and you can cultivate balancing trust with your leadership and your reports.
- Initiative: When you understand how to take action, and deal with the ups and downs teach you in life, you grow as a leader.
- Innovation: When you can teach others and be a mentor, you deepen your learning, and you encourage others to solve bigger challenges.
If you haven’t checked out Confidence at Work, take a look here.