Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here.

Every leader faces a share of irritating screw-ups and minor setbacks.

In response to those annoyances, some leaders get irritable and stressed out. Others keep on moving. To be in that enviable latter category, you need resilience.

1. Train your brain to bounce back from hassles rather than get snagged by them.

2. Find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted. Sit comfortably and focus on your breath. Notice yourself inhale and exhale.

3. Don’t try to change your breathing, just be attentive to it. As thoughts, sounds, or other distractions come up, let them go and return your attention to your breath.

By doing this 30 minutes a day you will teach your brain to go to a quiet calm place when it is stressed, rather than triggering your fight or flight response.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from “Resilience for the Rest of Us” by Daniel Goleman.

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Daniel Goleman is Co-Director of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University, co-author of Primal Leadership: Leading with Emotional Intelligence, and, most recently, author of The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights (Kindle only).