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Mental Strength Tip #140: Living in the Present for Personal Success

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May 202013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Personal development is essential to live a life of power, purpose and passion….with perseverance. Personal development is about know how to full use all of your four personal resources; physical, emotional, spiritual and mental.

The mental aspect of personal development requires mental strength and mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of self-empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

This is one in a series of virtual personal coaching and mental strength tips to help kick-start your week. It is intended to create self-empowerment and inspire you to take action so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take one mental strength tips and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct coaching questions. The intention of this virtual personal coaching session is for you to write and answer these questions in your success journal and then reflect on them to gain insight on yourself, your dreams and what’s holding you back.

These series of posts are for YOU!

If I’m not able to be your live personal coach, then I highly recommend picking up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior.” It’s a book that will take you through the exact process to take back control of your thoughts so that you can live a life a power, purpose and passion with perseverance!

You can grab your copy now by going HERE.

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To encourage you to dream of your future success while focusing on the present.

Let’s Get Started:

Who cares what you WILL be doing? All that matters is what you ARE doing.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s vital to create a vision for your future, but this is just talk unless you do something about it in the present. Ultimately it is the actions you take here and now that distinguishes your level of personal success.

Also keep in mind that even if you ARE doing something about getting to where you want to be, it is still being active towards where you WILL eventually be.

One good question to ask yourself is, “Am I presently taking the necessary actions to lead me to my desires or am I straying away from them?”

If you notice yourself moving further from your goals, stop and evaluate what you are doing. Perhaps you became distracted from your original intentions and just need to get back on track.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

Does thinking about the future help or hurt you?
Where do mental strength students and top performers focus their attention: the past, present or future?
Where are you focused when you’re performing at your best?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Living in the Present

It doesn’t’ matter where you focus your thoughts.
The focus of mental energy has nothing to do with personal success.
Living in the present is more about happiness than personal success.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Living in the Present

The management of mental energy dictates behavior.
The secret to personal success is the dream of the future while focusing on the present.
The present is the only time you have control over.

Outrageous Questions:

How could you use the idea of present centered thinking to improve your personal performance?
How could spending less mental energy in the past help your performance?
When are you operating at your best: when you think about the past, present or future?

Reflective Questions:

Is it possible to be future oriented and presented focused?
Who does the average person spend too much time thinking about the past?
Would you be happier if you lived more in the present?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Actively being present is an integral part of the success process. As you take each step, pour your passion into your actions. Become immersed in your passion. Dedicate some time to it. Focus your intent into accomplishing each single task at hand. Most of all enjoy the process.

Final Thought

Don’t bother stressing about the future, just keep that positive outlook on the future.

As you take all the numerous steps in the process, you WILL become your desire, and can honestly say, “I AM there!”

Taking steps while being in the present moment leads you to a prosperous future.

Get started today on creating this future/present shift and request your Introductory Consultation by going HERE.

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Warrior Mind Podcast Episode # 135: Personal Progress

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May 182013

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip #96: Progress and Personal Success.

The purpose to this Warrior Mind Podcast is to make sure you understand the difference between average thinking and mental strength thinking about making consistent personal progress and its impact on your personal success.

The averages person’s fear of personal progress is rooted in the belief that they won’t be able to successfully adapt to the new environment that the progress brings.

Since the average persons’ thinking in rooted in fear, they simply attach this same fear to any kind of change or progress, whether it’s personally or professionally.

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Individuals who push for personal progress automatically transcend the fear of change. This adds another link in their mental strength chain, which they use everyday.

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” Ronald Reagan

To help develop your personal progress today by pick up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior”.

This is a fantastic e-book that helps you with your personal development, self-improvement and personal power. You’ll learn to take back control of your thoughts, develop success awareness and helps you tap into the powers of your unconsciousness mind to create the mental strength to succeed at anything!

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Mental Strength Goals for Personal Growth

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May 152013

Personal growth and transformation is a vast horizon that encompasses everything, yes everything that you are. If you are planning to embark on that particular journey then you must utilize your mental strength and understand that this process cannot be done successfully by blindly changing all the facets of your personality at the same time.

As you find the things you must change or unlearn and as you determine that there are things to learn in their stead, you need to decide which battles to fight first. In other words, you need to prioritize your goals for personal transformation.

Healing and Forgiveness as a Priority Goal

You can only soar to new heights if you are not weighed down by the past. Personal growth and transformation is often preceded by painful events that bring about the realization that change has to take place.

The first thing you must do is face and stare down the hurts and demons that haunt you. Forgive and accept others. Most of all forgive and accept yourself. Move away from bitterness and build something new. Healing and forgiveness should be a priority goal for anyone who wants to be able to move on. By itself and in itself, this goal is by far will provide the most personal growth and transformation.

Take note that healing and forgiveness could take a lifetime to accomplish but making it a mental strength goal is an achievement in itself. This means you are willing to let go of hurts that bind you and you are now setting yourself free. Just being willing to step out of the circle of pain that you feel is already a qualitative first step to healing.

A Framework for Developing up Goals

As you develop your mental strength goals for personal growth and transformation, try to look at what you need in terms of your spirituality, your intellectual capacities, your emotional well-being and your social skills and your work capabilities. Honestly reflect on which aspect needs the most work and start there.

Don’t try to avoid the difficult by centering on your strong points. Although these strengths are to be enhanced, chances are your weak points play a major part in your current woes.

For example, a person who is in financial straits may discern that he or she needs to intellectually have a better grasp of budgeting, credit card interest rates and loan options. If this person is highly sociable, easy to like and friendly, he or she does not need a crash course on how to win friends and influence people. However, he or she may find that it is important to find out where the wrong investments or overspending takes place and if these have any emotional roots at all.

Identifying the Area’s for Improvement

A tool for effectively prioritizing your goals for personal growth and transformation is assessing your environment in terms of areas for improvement aka problem areas. Then, use this to analyze what you need to unlearn and learn. This will lead you to the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, social and work aptitudes you need to work on.

For example, a person who finds himself miserably alienated in terms of a social life can think about which aptitude he or she needs to work on then think of activities to help resolve the problem.

Can it be solved physically with a wardrobe make-over?

Will coaching from Toastmasters Club do it?

Or does the alienation stem from a more deep-seated reason?

When a person attempts to look at transformation this way, he or she can more easily choose which changes to attempt first.

Getting to the Why of Personal Growth and Transformation

Setting and prioritizing your personal growth and transformation goals is not all about getting rid of the old you because it was not good enough. Neither is it about “showing them” or extracting revenge or proving yourself.

To put it simply, at the heart of this process is should be a love for yourself and a confidence that you can move towards being the best that you can be – a totally different proposition from being someone else! Remember that the caterpillar already contains the butterfly; it is all just a matter of growth. And so it is with you.

Ready to take a leap in your personal growth and transformation journey? Take a look at The Warriors Quest. This is a private, one-on-one intensive that will create a quantum leap in your personal growth adventure.

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Mental Strength Tip #139: Work Ethic and Personal Success

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May 132013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

The mental aspect of personal development requires mental strength and mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of self-empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

These series of posts are for YOU!

You can grab your copy now by going HERE.

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To help you comprehend the importance of ethics in achieving personal success.

Let’s Get Started:

While some individuals try to get by doing as little work as possible, others possess a dedication that leads them to give it their all every day. People who possess a strong work ethic embody certain principles that guide their work behavior, leading them to produce high-quality work consistently and without the prodding that some individuals require to stay on track.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

Do you believe it’s possible to work more than you’re compensated for?
Have you ever worked less because you believed you wouldn’t be compensated for your addition efforts?
What does mental strength work ethic look like?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Work Ethic

Working more than you’re paid for is stupid.
Believing that extra effort at work will eventually be noticed is naive.
No matter how hard you work, employers and customers will always want more.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Work Ethic

You will always be compensated for a mental strength work ethic.
A mentally strong work ethic is the foundation of personal success.
Work ethic separate the top performers from the “also ran’s.”

Outrageous Questions:

If you were more focused on your work would you be more successful?
On a scale of 1-9, 9 being best, how would you rate your work ethic?
How would your friends and family rate your work ethic?

Reflective Questions:

What would you have to let go of in order to enhance your work ethic?
Is your work ethic more average or inline with top performers?
Do you believe your personal life would suffer if you enhanced your work ethic?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Work Ethic seems to be universally accepted as one of the most important factors contributing to one’s success. The harder you work – the more successful you’ll be. “Do a bunch by lunch…be a winner by dinner!” ~ Unknown.

And in this day and age, with so many things spiraling out of control and leaving us in tougher and tougher economic situations, it can feel good to get a grip and take charge over at least one aspect of our current situation that can have a significant impact on our future success. Although not necessarily easy to control, with the right mindset, the right map, and the right mantra you’re sure to get to where you want to be a heck of a lot faster than from laying down, eating leftovers, watching Law and Order: SVU. Remember, “The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you won’t.” ~ Unknown.

Final Thought

I’m not saying that breaks are bad. But, when you can align your life passion with purpose and perseverance, the lines between ‘working’ and ‘playing’ dissolve and become one ever-flowing part of your life. Find your passion, work extraordinarily hard on it (without really ‘working’), and take control of your future successes!

Get started today on creating this shift and request your Introductory Consultation by going HERE.

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Warrior Mind Podcast Episode # 134: Personal Power

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May 112013

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip #95 – Personal Power and Success.

The purpose to this Warrior Mind Podcast is to help you start thinking about how enhancing your personal power will help you achieve your personal goals and personal success.

Personal power begins with empowering values, beliefs and philosophies. Where personal power becomes manifest is when you become your values, beliefs and philosophies.

It’s one thing to say you have personal power and it’s a completely different when you live it.

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A person with power has the ability to move rapidly from one vision to the next by engaging the help and support of other powerful, successful, connected people.

Use your personal power for good…don’t go to the dark side. Possessing personal power can be intoxicating and crate a grandiose false image of yourself.

Wield your personal power with care, love and compassion while you’re reaping the rewards of your actions and be sure to use to help someone else less fortunate.

To help develop your personal power today by pick up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior”.

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Ten Mental Strength Steps for Personal Growth

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May 082013

So you’ve come to a decision to create a life of power, purpose and passion! You want your life to change and you want your world to be different.

But you have also come to realize that the changes you want will only happen after YOU change yourself first and experience personal growth.

You know that this will mean calling on all your mental strength and going through a process which is often difficult and painstaking.

Fortunately, the path of personal growth is well trodden and others have shared experiences which will help you take these steps to personal transformation.

Here are ten mental strength steps to help you along to personal growth.

Maybe your world has been just shattered and now you want to pick up the pieces and build something new. Or maybe you just gradually came into an awareness of how you no longer want things to go on as they are. The first thing you need to do is do some serious, analytical reflection. Reflection is the first of many steps to personal growth and it means going beyond blaming others or outside circumstances for the unsatisfactory state of affairs that you find yourself in. Neither does it mean indulging in self-pity or self recrimination.

Figure out which of your assumptions need to be challenged. An employee who thought that job promotions would automatically come with years of service may find others being promoted instead. There is now the need to examine the belief that promotion is automatic. The parent who assumes his children will be around to take care of him will need to reassess that assumption and build a new framework with which to view life and the future.

Focus on how you want to change your circumstances, yourself and what plans you will put into action to achieve your new goals. Find out exactly what you want in place of what you see. Of all the steps to personal transformation, this is probably the most difficult because this is where you need to let go of all bitterness and bondage to a failed past. In other words, if your starting point was a co-worker stabbing you in the back to get the promotion you deserved, the new future you create for yourself cannot be one that has this co-worker being fired while you get to be his boss. Revenge and vindictiveness have no place in your way forward.

Break down your long-range goals into smaller, manageable portions where you can achieve small successes to strengthen you. Ask yourself what you want done in five years, in three years and in a year. Then, try to come up with what needs to get done in three months or even a month. Use the smaller time frame to see how well you are doing. If part of your plan is achieving physical fitness maybe a first month’s objective could be to cut down on fat or remove soda from your diet and exercising for thirty minutes three times a week.

Assess and reassess your progress. Give yourself a set time every month or every two weeks to see how faithfully you are sticking to your plan. During your assessment, don’t forget to ask where you did well and where you need to do better. Be fair in your evaluation but be kind to yourself too.

Try new options and explore new aptitudes as you embark on your direction in life. If you always thought of yourself as someone who had no head for figures then look for classes that can help you grow in this direction. Dare to cut your hair – after all it will grow back if you don’t like the way it looks. Try a new shade of lipstick. Experiment!

Pick one thing to change and work on it. If you are trying to be a more accomplished person, make a survey of the skills you need and prioritize which one you want to acquire. Tackle the one you select first. Unless you go back to school full-time, you won’t be able to learn everything at once. Don’t fall victim to unrealistic expectations which will just lead to frustration.

Change your surroundings. Take a vacation. Make new friends. Move to a new city if you want to. Look for another job if you think that will be more fulfilling.

Anchor yourself on your spirituality. No matter what your religious persuasion is, take time to care for your spirit and nurture it. This will help you be in tune with a small, still voice that will guide you through the transformation you want to make.

Pick up a copy of Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior. It’s your bible to personal growth and personal transformation.

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Mental Strength Tip #138: Support Structure and Personal Success

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May 062013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

The mental aspect of personal development requires mental strength and mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of self-empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

These series of posts are for YOU!

You can grab your copy now by going HERE.

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To encourage you to build and use a support teak to provide a mental oasis on the way to creating a life of power, purpose and passion!

Let’s Get Started:

It’s hard to live in this world and achieve all the things you want to achieve. The best thing you can do is to make sure you have a lot of tools available to help support your dreams. This network of support can make all the difference in whether you succeed or fail.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

What role does a support system play in your pursuit of success?
Building an emotional support team is a sign of ___? (fill in the blank)
What role has the emotion support of others played in your life?

Unsupportive Beliefs about a Support System

Emotional support is for weak people.
Emotional support is for unstable people.
I don’t need a support system to succeed.

Mental Strength Beliefs about a Support System

Your support team is your emotional pit stop.
Support isn’t a necessity, it’s a strategy.
Utilizing a support system gives you an emotional oasis.

Outrageous Questions:

If you were using a support system more often would you be moving toward your vision at a more consistent pace?
What limiting beliefs would you have to change in order to embrace a support system?
How could you use a support system more effectively in the next 90 days?

Reflective Questions:

Are you allowing yourself adequate time to recharge yourself emotionally?
What activity could you plan with your support team in the next 30 days that help recharge yourself?
On a scale of 1-9, 9 being most, how often do you utilize your support system and team?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Having a support system is incredibly important if you want to get anywhere in life. You can only do so much on your own so you’ll want to make sure to surround yourself with others. You’re not limited in your options, so you’re sure to reach your goals as soon as possible.

Final Thought

The very first on your ranking of support should be family. Family members are the number one method of support because they know where you’re coming from. They also love you and want to help you do everything you want to do in life. (And if they don’t, they should!)

Each family member serves a different purpose in your life. A mother or father might nurture you and pad your falls. A child will help you to see the reasons why you’re working so hard. A spouse can help you in all that you do. They are usually your number one supporters.

Even though family is great you’ll also want to include your friends. While they may not know you as well as family (or they might know you better than family in some cases!), they can still add a lot to your support system. Friends are helpful because they might even have the same goals that you have. For example, if you’re exercising you can call a friend up to come join you.

Friends don’t even have to live in the same town that you do. In this day and age more and more people are making friends on the Internet. Location is definitely not an issue when you consider the Internet lifestyle. Even if you’re going through a particularly difficult time there’s probably someone, somewhere going through the same thing.

Joining online forums and chat groups can do you a lot of good in this case. Getting things off of your chest can feel great. This is even true when you don’t know the people at the other end of the computer screen. In fact, developing such a wide network of support can help to load you with all the help you’ll ever need.

If you want to include even more support in your network of success you can always join a program. There are different programs out there for everything under the sun. This includes anything from weight loss to money management. These programs can be found in your local town as well as online.

Of course, when you’re considering support networks you can’t forget yourself. You alone know yourself the best. Keeping a journal can be a great way to organize your thoughts and develop your own methods of support. Don’t forget to write in your journal each and every day so that you’re able to keep a record of everything you do to reach your goals

Get started today on creating a support system and request your Introductory Consultation by going HERE.

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Warrior Mind Podcast Episode # 133: Perseverance

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May 042013

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip # 94 – Persistence and Personal Success.

The purpose to this Warrior Mind Podcast is to make sure you really understand the perseverance is one of the most powerful mental strength qualities anyone can possess.

Many top achievers call it the secret to their success.

The concept of perseverance is simple and well-known. Unfortunately most people give up at the first sign of adversity. There is a huge gap between knowing and doing.

Perseverance: “Steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.”

Persistence: “The act of persisting; continued effort or existence.”

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Once a person set their sights on well thought out vision with a solid strategy of its achievement, the only missing piece is the level of persistence. That is, refuse to give up…no matter what!

Persistence is THE most important ingredient to achieving personal success.

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” - Napoleon Hill

To help develop the mental strength quality of perseverance today by picking up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior”.

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Emotions: Reacting or Responding It’s Your Choice

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May 032013

You have your day all planned out. You get up, you choose what you are going to wear, what you are going to have for breakfast, what time you have to leave if you are going somewhere, what route you will take, you have your E.T.A., you know what is intended for your day and you are off and away.

Then… maybe before you even leave the house things change and with that, your customary way of being shifts as well, just like that.

It’s like one moment you are traveling along a beautiful country road, the sun is shining, and you’re enjoying the scenery and fresh air. Perhaps you are listening to or singing at the top of your lungs to your favorite song, or having a great conversation with someone.

In what seems like in a blink of your eye, something/someone shifts that pleasant mood.

You find yourself detouring off this peaceful joyful road onto an emotional one you would rather not travel. But traveling you are, and perhaps even picking up some speed along the way.

I’m sure you have had a day or two like this. I know I have. All you want to do is quickly get back on that joyful drive, but somehow you can’t, at least not right away. You feel like you don’t have a choice.

Knowing that you have options on how to steer through your emotions helps when you are spinning out of control or squealing your tires.

People handle emotions differently. What sets you off doesn’t necessarily have the same effect on someone else.

Some folks become overwhelmed. Their emotions seem to take over and they find themselves reacting. Feelings of hurt, anger, jealousy, unfairness, shame, guilt, and past resentments are now in the driver’s seat steering their way.

This is the path of ‘reacting.’ This is the unconsciousness way we reply to an event or circumstance.

Others avoid their feelings. Feelings, what feelings? They block them out, shut down, busy themselves, pretend everything is fine, and find as many detours as possible away from them.

And then others stop and consider the event and the most empowering way to reply. This is the path of ‘responding.”

I’m sure you remember your mother telling you to count to 10 when you’re angry. This a lot of power in this. Those 10 seconds allow you to shift from ‘reaction’ to ‘responding.’

But really, there’s no right or wrong way of experiencing emotions, but there are choices. One is to become aware and understand those feelings when you’re stuck or even denying them.

When something or someone sets your emotions in motion, notice what the feelings are and how you are acting or reacting to the situation.

Once you determine what’s going on, you then can choose if you want to react or respond or even stay stuck, evade, or learn from them.

The choice is yours and yours alone.

If you elect exercise your mental strength and delve a little deeper, good for you. When you do, you will come to see these feelings aren’t so bad after all. In fact, they have a lot to teach you. How cool is that?

Emotions are like road signs showing you what’s happening along your journey.

Pointing out what needs a little construction on your continuing thoroughfare of life.

Look at the beliefs that are surfacing and resurfacing for you. Trust me, there will be at least one or two for you to ponder.

A belief towards a thought creates the emotion, or else it’s just a thought.

See if you can determine what the beliefs are within the emotion.

When you are clear about what they are then you can choose to work with them instead of allowing your emotions to take over the navigating. This only adds more stress, or weaving in and out trying to elude them only to find they are around the next corner.

Then you are in a better position to choose to believe differently, do differently, respond differently, etc.

Remember, your emotions are like a road under construction; when you work on them, it makes for a much more enjoyable journey.

Use the insights and techniques in Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior to assist assists you in seeing what your emotions are showing you and what choices they are offering.

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Mental Strength Tip #137: Character and Personal Success

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Apr 292013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Living a life of power, purpose and passion….with perseverance is walking the path of the Awakened Warrior. This path encompasses physical, emotional, spiritual and mental. The mental requires a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

These series of posts are for YOU!

You can grab your copy now by going HERE.

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To demonstrate the connection between mental strength thinking and character as well as its role in success, fulfillment and happiness.

Let’s Get Started:

The best way to begin this subject is look at an expert from an article written by Theodore Roosevelt. This sums it up perfectly!

“Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course, that a genius may, on certain lines, do more than a brave and manly fellow who is not a genius; and so, in sports, vast physical strength may overcome weakness, even though the puny body may have in it the heart of a lion. But, in the long run, in the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against that assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities, which we group together under the name of character; and if between any two contestants, even in college sport or in college work, the difference in character on the right side is as great as the difference of intellect or strength the other way, it is the character side that will win.”

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

What’s the relationship between character and personal success?
Do you believe successful people are character consciousness?
How do you define character?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Character

Only successful people can afford to have character consciousness.
It’s easy to have character awareness when you’re rich.
I have a bigger problems than my character.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Character

Nothing is more important than my character in living a life of power, purpose and passion.
The foundation of character is keeping your word to others and yourself.
A person character is an indication of the trustworthiness.

Outrageous Questions:

What percentage of the time do you keep your word, especially to yourself?
Would you label your character more weak minded or mentally strong?
What would your friends, relative and coworkers say about your character?

Reflective Questions:

What could you do to change any flaws in your character?
What beliefs would you have to change in order to be a mental strong person of character?
What could you do to improve how people perceive your character?

Mental Strength Coaching:

What do you do when no one is watching? Do you procrastinate? Do you waste your valuable time? Do you do what you have to do without being told or reminded? Do you look for ways to be helpful without being asked?

Char-act-er – The stable and distinctive qualities built into an individual’s life that determines his response regardless of circumstances.

Character influences the success of every individual, family, organization, community, and nation. Although some people with bad character seem to be successful on the surface, underneath they face poor relationships, distrust, anxiety, stress, and other severe problems that all the success in the world cannot correct.

You can develop important character qualities in your life today that will help you to be truly successful in everything you do. Also, these qualities positively influences everyone you come in to contact with at home, at work, at the store, in your community, and on your job.

Final Thought

I came across an interesting take on character and success this past week. John Bogle (founder of Vanguard Mutual Fund Group) has written a new book called Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life in which he laments that we’ve created a culture where greed is good and our heroes are people who have achieved outsized success (notably measured by the size of their salary/house/cars, etc). He raises an interesting question in the “life” section of the book – “what are the things by which we should measure our lives?” Bogle goes on to write: “we focus too much on things and not enough on the intangibles that make the things worthwhile: too much on success, and not enough on character, without which success is meaningless.” Wow, now that’s a quote to file away for a future teachable moment!

All of which got me to thinking about the relationship between success and character, and how things have changed down through the years. In my father’s day, you couldn’t be considered a success if you didn’t have character; no matter how much money you had or how big your farm was… if you weren’t a “good man” (my father’s simple assessment of character), it didn’t mean squat. No character, no success – at least in my father’s eyes.

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