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.
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!
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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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