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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!

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 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!

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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

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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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Mental Strength Tip #136: Humor and Personal Success

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Apr 222013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

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 persuade you to your sense of humor as a strategy to achieve personal success

Let’s Get Started:

“Did you hear the one about the manager who got a bigger bonus because he had a great sense of humor?”

You probably haven’t heard this one making the rounds at the water cooler, because it’s not a joke. It’s actually one finding from a study by researcher Fabio Sala—a consultant with the Hay Group’s McClelland Centre for Research and Innovation—who found a positive correlation between the size of executives’ bonuses and their use of humor. The study also found that outstanding executives use humor more than twice as often as the so-called average executives.

Studies like this point to a growing consensus that if you are serious about your career, then sometimes it pays to not be serious. At least, not too serious. Not when a healthy sense of humor can help you manage stress, spark creativity, build relationships, communicate more effectively, and stand out from the herd – not to mention earn you a bigger bonus or more income.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

Is there any connection between humor and personal success?
Is there any connection between humor and happiness?
Is there a place for humor in business?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Humor

There’s nothing humorous about the trying to achieve personal success.
Humor has no place in success.
Humor make you appear shallow and frivolous in achieving personal success.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Humor

Humor reduces stress.
Humor increases creativity.
Humor creates connection with people.

Outrageous Questions:

Do you use humor as a performance strategy?
If you used humor more often would you be more successful?
If you used humor more often would be you happier?

Reflective Questions:

Is it possible to overuse humor in the pursuit of personal success?
Could humor help reduce your everyday stress?
What would you have to let go of on order to use humor more often in the pursuit of your personal goals?

Mental Strength Coaching:

So does all this suggest you need to sign up for a stand-up comedy class or turn into the office joker? Not at all. Demonstrating a healthy sense of humor is rarely about telling jokes, and it certainly isn’t about becoming the class clown. In fact, misusing humor is also a terrific way to get yourself noticed (and not in a good way).

They key is to practice “safe humor”: humor that builds rather than divides relationships, humor that laughs with people, not at people. For as much as humor can be a beneficial career skill, we all learn at an early age that humor is also a powerful weapon—a favorite of schoolyard bullies.

Therefore, offensive humor—such as sexist or racist jokes—is strictly off-limits during work hours. Sarcastic or bullying humor can also be career-damaging, and many practical jokes have resulted in lawsuits (as in the case of the employee who brought laxative-filled brownies to the office) or outright dismissal.

Final Thought

Once your foot is in the door, a well-flexed funny bone can also help maintain a thriving career. Humor is an important social lubricant, bonding tool and trust builder. A healthy sense of humor is also one of the most effective stress busters available, helping people distance themselves from their workplace stressors, maintain a more balanced perspective and overcome obstacles.

Moreover, humor is one of the best catalysts for creative thinking, which makes sense, given that both humor and creativity are about combining unrelated ideas and looking at something in a new and different light. All these benefits are likely why a survey by Robert Half International found that 84% of the CEO’s and H.R. directors believe people with a good sense of humor do a better job.

And as the Sala study points out, a sense of humor is even becoming an essential skill for senior executives. As humorist Bob Ross observed, “A leader without a sense of humor is like a lawn mower at a cemetery—they both have lots of people underneath them, but no one is paying them any attention.

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Mental Strength Tip #135: Fulfillment And Personal Success

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Apr 152013

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 help you make the distinction between personal success and personal fulfillment.

Let’s Get Started:

For many people today the size of their paycheck is not all-important. Above all, they want a career that offers opportunities for both professional and personal fulfillment.

Professional satisfaction now affects everything from individual happiness and family stability to business and company profits and national economic competitiveness.

It contributes to motivation and plays a crucial role in people’s performance of and commitment to their work. Simply put, the more people like what they’re doing for a living, the more motivated they’ll put forth the effort and focus that success demands and their dreams need.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

Is it more important to be successful or fulfilled?
Is it possible to be successful and fulfilled?
Which comes first, success or fulfillment?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Success and Fulfillment

You must choose between success and fulfillment.
People who are fulfilled don’t care about success.
People who choose success are shallow and greedy.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Success and Fulfillment

You can be successful and have fulfillment.
Success gives you options.
Fulfillment helps create success.

Outrageous Questions:

Would massive personal success change your life?
Are you making a significant difference in someone elses’ life?
Would focusing on fulfillment make you more successful?

Reflective Questions:

Is it possible to achieve personal success and personal fulfillment at the same time?
What would you have to do to become more fulfilled?
How do your beliefs around success and fulfillment affect your daily activates?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Stop and think a moment . . . Do you feel that you are a success at what you do? Do you feel fulfilled? Are you happy? Do you love what you do for a living? Do you love your career or job? Are you one of those people who go around smiling all the time, always in a good mood, and always have great and interesting things going on in your life?

If you can say yes to all of these questions, you are obviously a person who has figured out what it is you love to do and made it your life’s work. This not only makes you a success, but gives you fulfillment.

Most people define success as having the material things you want to have, or at least the ability (money) to get these things if you want them. The cars, houses, great paying job; all those things are common measurements of success. However, success is a subjective term, and is based on your opinion. I did say your opinion, not the opinion of others.

Fulfillment is another subjective term, based on each person’s opinion. Fulfillment and happiness are synonyms. Happiness and fulfillment are not the result of having things; they’re the result of an inner contentment. There’s a wonderful quote that goes like this: ‘The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same things.’

The sad thing is that too many people are trapped doing what they have to do instead of what they want to do. And what’s worse is they don’t know how to change it. Life is way too short to spend doing something that prevents us from growing and that doesn’t bring us lots of fulfillment. When we’re unfulfilled, we try to fill this void with other things. Could this be the cause of many addictions? It’s certainly the cause of much unhappiness.

Final Thought

What would it feel like to be on top of the world – to know that all of your hard work and dedication has led to the success you’ve always wanted? The human potential is unlike any other force that exists. The key is to unlock it! Most people underestimate their abilities and lack the drive to commit to significant change.

There is reason to get excited, however! With personal coaching, you can achieve all of your personal goals by working with a trusted coach who will help you leverage and maximize your unique strengths, while allowing you to effectively manage your weaknesses.

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Mental Strength Tip #134: Self-Understanding For Personal Success

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Apr 082013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

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 understand that value of introspective thought and self-understanding and how it plays a role in personal success.

Let’s Get Started:

With our busy schedules it might be difficult to find time to think about who we are, our strengths and weaknesses, our drives and personalities, our habits and values. Besides, many of us just aren’t inclined to spend much time on self-reflection. Even when personal feedback is presented to us, we’re not always open to it, because honest feedback isn’t always flattering.

Consequently, many of us have a pretty low level of self-awareness. That’s unfortunate, because self-awareness is an essential first step toward achieving personal success. Self-awareness can improve our judgment and help us identify opportunities the will assist in reaching our goals and creating the life f power, purpose and passion!

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

Do you think there are the things the lie in the deep recesses of your psyche that you are unaware of that could help you move closer to personal success?
If you had to guess, what percentage of your mind are you aware of?
Do you think there are there emotional motivators and hot buttons buried in your unconsciousness mind?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Self-Understanding

I know all there is to know about myself.
I don’t have any hidden emotional triggers.
The introspective process is that same thing as therapy.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Self-Understanding

The mind is like a mine filled with emotional treasures.
Self-understanding makes success much easier.
Self-understanding creates mental clarity and illuminates life purpose.

Outrageous Questions:

Would you be more successful if you understood yourself in greater depth?
Is it possible your core beliefs around self-understanding are holding you back?
Could there be limiting beliefs and philosophies held over from when you were young that are buried deep in your unconscious mind and sabotaging your success?

Reflective Questions:

How well do you really know yourself?
How you ever done something and didn’t understand why?
If you have to explain the way your mind works and operates could be convincing?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Self-awareness is about knowing who you are. It is the ability to define yourself in terms of the way you think, the way you feel, your wants, your needs, your values, your personal beliefs, your strengths, your weaknesses, your expectations and your aspirations. In a sense, self-awareness is about understanding just how unique you are, and how your uniqueness adds value to the world, as you continually grow and change.

How do I become more self-aware?

In order to develop self-awareness, you have to look deep inside yourself and ask some critical questions…

“What do I believe in?”
“What is important to me?”
“What do I love and/or enjoy?”
“What are my strengths/weaknesses?”
“What do I want to achieve in my life?

Final Thought

Self-awareness helps you identify gaps in your personal skills, which promotes skill development. But self-awareness also helps you find situations in which you’ll be most effective with intuitive decision making, stress management and motivation of oneself and others.

Get started today on creating self-awareness and request your Introductory Consultation by going HERE.

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Mental Strength Tip #133: Role Models for Personal Success

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Apr 012013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

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 understand the power roles model can have in facilitating your way to reaching your personal goals and achieving personal success.

Let’s Get Started:

An important key foundation in Neuro-linguistic Programming is modeling. To model, you emulate those who have already achieved success. You observe, analyze and then replicate the factors that contributed to the outstanding performance.

While there is no 100% guarantee that you can reap the same results, modeling helps you shorten your learning curve. You learn to avoid common mistakes and apply the essential steps and strategies that have helped your role model succeed. The idea is that it is much easier to follow a previously proven path to success.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

In what areas of your life have you utilized roles models?
Do you believe role models can expedite your personal success?
If using roles models is so effective, why don’t more people use them?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Role Models

Role models are for children to admire.
Role models are unapproachable.
Role models are overrated.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Role Models

Role models clear the path to success.
Role models are fantastic teachers.
Role models take the guesswork out of success.

Outrageous Questions:

Who are your role models?
Do you have role models in every area of your life?
How many role models helped you get where you are today?

Reflective Questions:

What would you have to do to find more role models for your life?
How can I help you decided on new role models?
How much time could you save by following the appropriate role models to manifest your life’s purpose?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Role models are everywhere. Some are worthy of the term, others are thrust into the role for whatever reason and are not worthy of emulation by any stretch of the imagination. Yet it is human nature for all of us to seek out role models. We all want to see ourselves reflected in the faces of others who are successful and “just like us”.

When you look for a role model, remember, they don’t have to be “perfect” in every area of their life, only the area you want to emulate.

Final Thought

Any person, regardless of social stature, race, creed, and geographical location has looked up to someone for inspiration and aspire to be like him or her. People that motivate other people to do great things are role models. But role models need not come from the best schools, or have waged and won many wars, or have written tons of tomes that contemplate on man’s existence; any person can be a role model to someone.

A role model serves as an inspiration or, as the case may be, a living guide to those who are inspired by his works, values, character, and life as a whole. Role models are pivotal to a person’s success. College students, according to a study, were heavily influenced by their role models when deciding which career path they would likely take.

The criteria a person uses to choose a role model vary. Criteria are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things in one’s life though, if a role model inspires one to do great things.

Want to learn more about how to use role models in reaching your goals and achieving success? Then request your Introductory Consultation today by going HERE.

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Mental Strength Tip #132: Paying The Price For Personal Success

Mental Strength Coaching, Peak Performance, Personal Develpoment, Personal Performance, Personal Success No Responses »

Mar 252013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

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 understand that peak performance and personal success comes with a price tag and to find out if you’re willing to pay it.

Let’s Get Started:

We all have the same amount of time in each day– 24 hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. Successful people make the conscious choice to invest more of their time towards meaningful, goal-congruent activities than “average” people. If you want to be more successful you will have to give up some unproductive, time-wasting habits.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

Do you believe it’s possible to succeed without paying a price?
Does paying a price for success make you mental stronger?
Does paying a price for success make the victories that much sweeter?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Paying The Price:

Paying a price and suffering for success is negative.
You don’t have to pay a price to succeed, you can be lucky.
Successful people take shortcuts and are lucky.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Paying The Price:

If massive success didn’t require paying a price and sacrifice than everyone one would be rich, fit and happy.
Paying a price for success creates self-respect.
Paying the price for personal success is the primary mechanism of mental strength.

Outrageous Questions:

Are you absolutely certain your beliefs about paying a price for personal success are facts or just your perception?
Is your approach to paying a price helping or hurting you?
Is your current level of paying a price enough to achieve your desired life’s vision?

Reflective Questions:

What do your activities in the last thirty days say about your commitment to paying a price for your personal success?
What would you be willing to sacrifice in order to move closer to your desired life’s vision?
Is the sacrifice necessary to achieve your vision worth the price?

Mental Strength Coaching:

The surest way to achieve your goal for personal success is to work on it first, before you do anything for anyone else. Re-prioritize your schedule to begin your day working towards your goal. Resolve to do at least one thing each morning to get closer to your goal.

This way, if the unexpected happens throughout the day, you will at least have gotten a little bit closer to your goal beforehand. Then if time allows, after you’ve done everything for everyone else, end your day by taking one more action to move closer to your goal.

Resolve to start your day by working towards your personal goals. If this means you have to wake up earlier than usual, make the sacrifice. If you feel like that’s too big of a sacrifice, then find a more compelling goal.

Final Thought

Leading up to every successful outcome are dozens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of small steps that no one sees or appreciates. These small, unpleasant steps are the building blocks of success and part of paying the price.

You must respect the small steps and develop the discipline to take them before you can ever achieve extraordinary results.

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Mental Strength Tip #130: Elders Wisdom and Personal Success

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Mar 112013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Exceeding your human potential, achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals starts with 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 motivate you to study and emulate the wisdom of the elders by studying their thoughts, beliefs, values, habits and philosophies.

Let’s Get Started:

You can think of this as “modeling” in today’s and NLP terminology. Modeling is the process of recreating excellence. We can model any human behavior by mastering the beliefs, the physiology and the specific thought processes (that is the strategies) that underlie the skill or behavior.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

Do you believe all the solutions and answers to achieving personal success have been discovered?
Do you believe there’s a personal success formula?
If the answers to a fulfilled life have already been discovered, why aren’t more people living a more meaningful and fulfilled life?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Wisdom

No one knows the secret to success, fulfillment and happiness.
The wisdom of the elders doesn’t apply to my life.
The wisdom of the elders doesn’t apply to today’s world.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Wisdom

All the answers to life and living have already been discovered.
The most intelligent strategy for quantum growth is modeling the success that came before me.
The fastest way to learn and grow is studying the success and failures of the elders.

Outrageous Questions:

Is your success strategy to learn more from personal experience or wisdom of the elders?
Is it possible to manifest your life’s vision quicker through modeling others behaviors?
In your greatest areas of achievement, have you succeeded based on your past experience of what you were taught?

Reflective Questions:

Have you ever studied a quotation book? If so, did it help you?
What are some ways to learn from the experience of the leaders that you haven’t tapped into?
What was the last non-fiction or biography you read or listened to that helped you move closer to personal success?

Mental Strength Coaching:

There are three phases to modeling

Observing the Model

This involves fully imagining yourself in someone else’s reality by using a “second position” shift. The focus is on “what” the person does (behavior and physiology), “how” they do it (internal thinking strategies) and “why” they do it (supporting beliefs and assumptions).

Find the Difference That Makes the Difference

Traditional learning adds pieces of a skill one bit at a time until we have them all. The drawback to this method is we don’t know which bits are essential. By contrast modeling which is the basis of accelerated learning, gets all the elements and then subtracts to find what is necessary.

By systematically taking out elements of the model’s behavior, we can find what pieces are essential. If the process still works without that element, it is not relevant.

Design a method to teach the skill

Until you have all the relevant pieces of a skill and the necessary sequence, you cannot teach it effectively.

Rehearsal of the natural sequence of the skill is important. If you tried to make a cake by putting it in the oven before mixing the ingredients together, it would be yucky. Yet we think we can teach separate elements of skills out of sequence and out of context and succeed.

Final Thought

Modeling involves transferring what an expert thinks they know and what they unconsciously know. It involves being able to produce the outcome and transferring the behavior to others.

The use of modeling does not just involve extraordinary skills. For example, you could model how someone keeps their desk clean. You can use the same key questions to find out how someone keeps themselves happy and enthused.

Modeling is a powerful process that can accelerate learning of skills.

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Mental Strength Tip #129: Body Weight and Personal Success

Mental Strength Coaching, Personal Develpoment, Personal Performance, Personal Success, Physical Strength No Responses »

Mar 042013

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Exceeding your human potential, achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals starts with 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 get you to think about the role your body weight plays in your health, success and life.

Let’s Get Started:

There’s ample evidence to suggest a link between body weight and financial success. A study of business school graduates by Harvard Medical School found that men who were at least 20 percent above their “desirable” weights made $4,000 less per year compared with their leaner colleagues, and the earnings gap widened over the years.

In another study, researchers analyzed income and attractiveness and found that men and women rated as unattractive suffered a 10 and 5 percent income deficit, respectively, compared with those of average looks. Those rated as attractive, on the other hand, enjoyed a 5 and 4 percent premium, respectively.

Of course, beauty is at least somewhat in the eye of the beholder, but the authors of the income and attractiveness study note there is broad consensus about what is attractive in our culture today, and among the qualities is leanness.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

Does body weight impact your thinking?
Does body weight impact your personal success?
Does body weight impact your happiness?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Body Weight

Body weight has nothing to do with success or happiness.
Big is beautiful.
We should just accept our fate if we’re overweight.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Body Weight

Being overweight is a hindrance to living a full life.
Being overweight is painful.
Maintaining a thin and healthy physique has significant benefits.

Outrageous Questions:

If your body was more muscular and leaner could you be more successful?
Are you satisfied with your current body weight?
What beliefs would you have to change in order to maintain a lean mean success machine physique?

Reflective Questions:

How does your body weight impact your relationships?
Does your body weight increase your energy or consume it?
Psychologically speaking, which is more painful: sticking to a healthy nutrition and exercise program or being overweight?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Amidst the concern over medical complications associated with weight gain and obesity, new research suggests carrying extra weight is also linked to anxiety and depression.

If you’re depressed or suffer from anxiety how can you go after your dreams?

Final Thought

The obese are absent from work more often than people of healthy weight. The most obese men take 5.9 more sick days a year; the most obese women, 9.4 days more. Obesity-related absenteeism costs employers as much as $6.4 billion a year, health economists led by Eric Finkelstein of Duke University calculated. Don’t think being overweight affects your personal success…think again!

Get started today on creating a lean mean success machine physique and request your Introductory Consultation by going HERE.

Oh yea…if you want to see a great documentary about how being overweight can affect your life and success check out “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.”

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