16/08/2025
Sometimes life knocks us down hard.
Getting up is important..but getting up steady changes everything.
Rise Steady means standing again - grounded, healed, and anchored in truth. It’s choosing growth over haste, and purpose over pressure.
Read the first piece in GSOG RTC’s Rise Steady Series:
“Why Rise Steady and What It Means”
Let’s rise together, and rise steady.
True resilience isn’t just getting up — it’s RISING STEADY: grounded, focused, and anchored in truths.
Read the first article in GSOG-RTC’s Rise Steady Series: “Why Rise Steady — and What It Means.”
Full article on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/2j5htscp
Full Article: Why Rise Steady — and What It Means
We all know what it means to stand up after a fall. Rising may not be instinctive, but choosing to rise reveals our innate will to survive — that fight in us to get up. Even as infants, it is undeniable that we have an inborn ability to fight for survival, as demonstrated by our cry for help or milk.
Whether we fall by our own fault or from life’s blows, we know the answer: get up. And often, we do, stronger and more ready for what’s next. There are times, however, that we are too eager to rise. Too fast. Too wired for the next fight. We skip over the bruises, the stress, the anxiety, and the trauma. We’ve learned to live with the wounds, some visible and some not. Regardless, we are always encouraged to rise immediately because this shows grit, believing that these injuries can heal over time. However, this may mean rising hastily, which could be detrimental to our progression as we endeavor to move forward. We might say that we are used to a difficult life; that we are confident enough to welcome new challenges despite our known or unknown injuries. And the world praises and misinterprets it as a display of resilience. However, true resilience is also about sustainability, longevity, growth, and thriving despite adversities. True resilience is more than survival. It is more than simply rising after a fall. It is rising steady.
Rising steady is not rising slowly. It is rising while grounded in truths and not just facts. It entails being focused, not scattered. It is withstanding pressures while working towards an ultimate purpose — and this is a God-given one. It requires training, beginning with acknowledging one’s reality (and not running away from it). It also involves accepting the uncomfortable while expanding one’s comfort zone.
Rising steady means being aware of that inborn resilience, recognizing that there are bumps, bruises, and wounds to tend, and sensing the urgency to stand but with calmness and confidence that one can do so. Rising steady means being anchored in our resilience forged by life experiences. It also means absorbing, filtering, and adapting ourselves to the challenges we face, but with a purpose and vision intact.
Why rise steady? Because it is critical for us to be grounded in the realities of our respective lives: 1) that some pressures and stressors may or could hurt us, 2) that we move better when we have tended our wounds, and 3) that we grow resilient by training to integrate the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of our lives. It is also because our rising steady matters not only to us but also to people who matter to us the most.
