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The Resilience Audit

"Find out where you're strong. Find out where you're brittle."

A structured self-assessment based on Steven Southwick's ten resilience factors and Kobasa's psychological hardiness framework. Identifies your specific resilience profile — where you have genuine reserves and where you're most vulnerable when things go wrong.

£9.99
18 pages · All 7 formats

About the The Resilience Audit

Resilience isn't a single trait. It's a profile across ten distinct factors — realistic optimism, capacity to face fear, moral clarity, social support, physical fitness, cognitive flexibility, meaning and purpose, and more. Most people are strong on some and brittle on others, and the brittleness is always context-specific. The Resilience Audit maps your profile across all ten factors using structured self-assessment questions, then builds a targeted development plan for your specific weak points. It's not a wellness exercise — it's a performance diagnostic.

Methodology · The Cascade
Annual goals flow down to quarterly milestones, weekly priorities, and daily actions. This product sits in the Cascade layer — connecting the horizon above it to the execution below.
What's included — The Resilience Audit printable
Resilience baseline — ten factors assessed on structured scales. Where are you genuinely strong? Where are you overestimating?
Commitment audit (Hardiness Factor 1) — how much meaning do you find in your daily work? What drains rather than energises?
Control audit (Hardiness Factor 2) — where do you spend energy on things outside your influence? What's actually within your control?
Challenge orientation (Hardiness Factor 3) — what's your default response to change and adversity? Evidence from the last 12 months.
Social support map — who can you call at 2am? Who would notice within a week if you went dark? Who challenges your thinking?
Physical resilience baseline — sleep, training, recovery, nutrition — as performance factors, not wellness metrics
Cognitive flexibility test — structured scenarios: how do you respond when your plan fails? When you're wrong?
Meaning & purpose audit — what are you building toward? What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?
Resilience gap analysis — your three lowest-scoring factors and specific, evidence-based interventions for each
90-day resilience development plan — one intervention per weak factor, with measurement criteria
Integration with Groundwork system — how the Stoic Journal, Transition Planner, and Strength Log serve your specific resilience gaps
Who is this for?
Anyone using the Groundwork system who wants to go deeper on Resilience
People who want structure that actually connects to their goals
Those who have tried generic planners and found them too vague
Product preview
Print layout
The Resilience Audit · A5
All formats
A4 · A5 · Filofax · US Letter
Digital · GoodNotes
iPad / Notion
Product images coming soon — mockups being added
Customer reviews
4.8 ★★★★★ from 3 reviews
★★★★★
The format range is what sets Groundwork apart. I use the Notion template during the week and print the A5 for weekends. Both are properly designed — not an afterthought.
Alex H.Notion + A5
★★★★★
Clean, purposeful design. No wasted space, no filler prompts. This is what a planning tool should look like — everything on the page earns its place.
Priya S.GoodNotes
★★★★☆
Third Groundwork product I've bought. The consistency across the range means everything works together. Filofax sizes are accurate and the greyscale printing is crisp.
Marcus D.Filofax A5
Questions about this product

Common questions

What formats are included?
Every Groundwork product includes A4, A5, Filofax, and US Letter print sizes, plus a hyperlinked digital PDF for GoodNotes or Notability, plus a Notion template. All in a single download.
Is it undated?
Yes. All Groundwork products are undated — no pre-printed year, month, or day. Start any time, reprint as many times as you need.
How do I print at home?
Print on standard 80gsm paper in greyscale or colour. The designs are built to work in greyscale — no full-bleed backgrounds, so no wasted ink. Set quality to 'standard' not 'draft' for clean lines.
Does it work with GoodNotes or Notability?
Yes. The digital PDF has active hyperlinks and is optimised for stylus input on iPad. Works on GoodNotes, Notability, Xodo, and any other PDF annotation app.
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