To fulfill that purpose, in 1980, with his artificial leg, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Self-leadership strategies help us examine occurring thoughts for their helpfulness or harmfulness, and examine our beliefs and challenge their veracity, substituting the defeating ones with more useful, operative ones. These self-leadership practices help to develop resilience skills. By learning, practicing, and gaining experience in controlling our behaviors and thoughts we gain resilience to stressful situations.