Below are a number of files that you can download for free just by double-clicking on them.  They include tips, tools, articles, and e-book excerpts authored by Sandy Davis.  All of these downloads focus in one way or another on optimizing your self-care and maximizing your vitality and your personal resilience.

Daily Evidence Log - 1 Page (52K) - This configurable one-page Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is a tool you can use to keep track of a month's worth of daily results as you adhere systematically to your daily self-care structures. How to use this Daily Evidence Log is covered both in "The Resilience Manual," and in greater detail in "The Resilience Reference Guide." Both manuals are available exclusively from www.resilienceworks.com. (Click on "Instructional Manuals".)

Daily Evidence Log - 2 Pages (54K) - This configurable two-page Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is exactly same as the one-page log--except that it is formatted differently. If you prefer to print a copy of your log and enter your data longhand (i.e., offline), this version will be more accommodating. This "big" version of the log tracks the same daily results as the one-page version, and calculates your Summary Data in an identical fashion.

Monthly Evidence Log - 2011 (61K) - This one-page Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is a tool you can use to hold 12 months worth of summary data from each month's Daily Evidence Log. Detailed information on how to use this higher-level log is contained in "The Resilience Reference Guide to the Self-Care Daily Evidence Log" available exclusively from www.resilienceworks.com. (Click on "Instructional Manuals".)

New Beginnings Daily Evidence Log (38K) - This one-page Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is a tool you can use to keep track of just one daily practice over a period of one month. It helps you keep track of your agreement to stick with a particular new practice for 31 consecutive days. When you keep your agreement to practice every single day, this log provides you with compelling evidence of your success.

Preview of "The Resilience Manual" (843K) - This 26-page PDF file is an introductory excerpt from "The Resilience Manual: How to Survive in Stressful Times." It includes the front and back covers, the table of contents, the introduction, the first three sections (12 pages), plus a detailed table of contents. In this preview, you'll find an overview of the seven simple self-care structures you can set up for yourself in order to develop and sustain your own personal resilience.

Preview of "The Resilience Reference Guide" (563K) - This 14-page PDF file is an introductory excerpt from "The Logger's Reference Guide to the Self-Care Daily Evidence Log: How to Easily Generate the Compelling Data You Need to Optimize your Self-Care and Maximize Your Resilience-Readiness." It includes the front and back covers, the introduction, two sample sections, and a detailed table of contents. (This reference guide is a companion manual for "The Resilience Manual: How to Thrive in Stressful Times."

Preview of the "Zillience!" Manual (922K) - This 30-page PDF file is an excerpt from "Zillience! How to Succeed in Business without Really Frying." It includes the front and back covers, the table of contents, the introduction, and the first five sections. In it, you'll find an overview of Sandy Davis' framework for generating lots of "zillience" so that you can become "certifiably re-zillient" / resilient.

Quick Self-Assessment: Evaluate Your Resilience-Readiness (101K) - This short self-assessment enables you to evaluate your own resilience-readiness. It can be completed in 10-15 minutes, and offers you both an interpretation of your results, as well as some recommendations as to possible next steps. (3 pages)

Resilience-Readiness: Seven Simple Self-Care Structures (139K) - This three page article (844 words) describes seven simple self-care structures that contribute to developing a degree of resilience-readiness. All seven are readily accessible, affordable, portable, and highly effective.

Resilience Tips: For Aging Mortals Only (156K) - This four page (1,231 words) article raises the question of whether you are aware that you are both mortal and aging. This awareness is a great catalyst for taking better care of yourself. The article give you some tips on why to get started and how. (This article was published first in the December 2010 issue of ResilienceTIPS.)

Resilience Tips: A Life-Changing Little Experient (163K) - This four page (1,138 words) article frames up a "life-changing little experiment" that you can do to increase your vitality and your personal resilience. It explains how 15 minutes of daily practice can make all the difference. And it invites you to set up your own life-changing little experiment. (This article was published first in the October 2010 issue of ResilienceTIPS.)

Resilience Tips: How to Leverage Intentional Micro-Disruptions-Part 1 (123K) - This two page article (496 words) introduces the concept of "intentional micro-disruptions," and then explains how you can systematically leverage these purposeful small upsets to greatly increase your resilience-readiness. (This article was published first in the July 2009 issue of "ResilienceTIPS"; Part 1 of 2-part article.)

Resilience Tips: How to Leverage Intentional Micro-Disruptions-Part 2 (114K) - This two page article (539 words) introduces the concept of "micro-preparation," and discusses how this flows from choosing to handle intentional micro-disruptions. It also explains why micro-disruptions that focus on your self-care are essential do increasing your resilience-readiness. (This article was published first in the August 2009 issue of "ResilienceTIPS"; Part 2 of 2-part article.)

Resilience Tips: Keeping Your Agreements - Bail or Sail? (150K) - This four page (939 words) article explains why keeping all your agreements is so critical to developing and sustaining your vitality and personal resilience. When you break your agreements, your boat starts to leak. When you keep them, instead of bailing all the time, you get to sail "free and clear." (This article was published first in the November 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS".)

Resilience Tips: Why Your Vitality is Critical (193K) - This four page (985 words) article explains why vitality is a critical ingredient of personal resilience. Great self-care generates vitality, and vitality, in turn, generates greater resilience. The article gives an overview on what you can do to increase you own vitality, and, simultaneously, increase your resilience. (This article was published first in the February 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS".)

Resilience Tips: Our Aerobic Imperative (213K) - This five page (1,249 words) article explains why regular aerobic exercise is so vital to our well-being as to be imperative. Until you become physically fit, you cannot enjoy to the fullest the pleasures of being alive and in good health. It tells you how to get started and how to stay on the path. (This article was published first in the May 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS".)

Resilience Tips: The Invisibility of Great Self-Care (130K) - This four page (1,170 words) article speaks to the "invisibility" of great self-care. Others likely won't see or understand what you are doing to optimize you personal resilience. While the direct benefits of your self-care activities are yours to enjoy, the indirect benefits are for others to savor. (This article was published first in the July 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS".)

Resilience Tips: Are You a Member of the "Silent Dispirited"? (135K) - This four page (1,140 words) article identifies a grouping of individuals who have gradually become dispirited (i.e., the Silent Dispirited) and posits some simple ways to reverse this dispiritedness. (This article was published first in the August 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS".)

Resilience Tips: All Lessons Are the Same (132K) - This four page (902 words) article explains how all lessons are fundamentally the same. It invites you to choose one simple lesson that appeals to you and then master it. Doing so will open the door to developing an affinity for personal change, as well as "personal change momentum." (This article was published first in the September 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS.")

Resilience Tips: Four Easy Ways to Live Longer (192K) - This three page (785 words) article references new findings about four common unhealthy behaviors that have been proven to render you as much as 12 years older than your chronological age. It also puts forward four easy ways to become younger than your chronological age. (This article was published first in the June 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS".)

Resilience Tips: Great Aunt Grace's Six Rules to Live By (144K) - This two page (621 words) article reveals the Six Rules that Great Aunt Grace Moody Bemis (1896-1999) lived by. By following her own simple rules, she took such good care of herself that she lived to 103. The article compares Graces Six Rules to the approach that Sandy Davis uses to develop and sustain personal resilience. (This article was published first in the January 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS".)

Resilience Tips: How to Create Your Own Free Health Care System (200K) - This four-page (941 words) article offers you a way to build your own internal "Health Care System," one that is easily accessible, costs next to nothing, and will keep you in far better health than our so-called "National Health Care System" that focuses on sickness and disease, that is no longer affordable, and that is completely broken. (This article was published first in the March 2010 issue of "ResilienceTIPS".)

Resilience Tips: Keep It Simple (129K) - This two page article (464 words) explains why it is important to keep your daily self-care structures as simple as possible. It also spells out "10 Tips for Simplicity's Sake." (This article is excerpted from "The Resilience Manual: How to Thrive in Stressful Times," available exclusively from ResilienceWorks.)

Resilience-Readiness: The Power of An Already-Done List (138K) - This four page article (896 words) describes the difference between a "to-do" list and an "already-done" list. If you want to increase your resilience-readiness, you need to make sure your daily self-care practices are "already done" before you move on to your day's "to-do" list. (This article was published first in the April 2009 issue of "Zillience for Life.")

Resilience Tips: How to Un-Mind Your Own Business (138K) - This four page article (1,032 words) describes how you can relieve inner stress and increase your resilience-readiness by "getting out of your head" via regular, vigorous physical exercise. (This article was published first in the September 2009 issue of "ResilienceTIPS.")

Resilience Tips: New Personal Horizons (153K) - This five page (1,518 words) article discusses the importance of introducing an "intentional dose of discontinuity" into your life at least every seven years. (This article was published first in the January, 2011 issue of ResilienceTIPS.)