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Mental Strength Tip #53 – Future Focus and Personal Success

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Aug 152011
 
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Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!future focus

Well here we are, starting a “New Year” of Mental Strength Tips!   Let’s not waste anymore time….

Achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals begins with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs.  Reaching peak personal performance and personal success starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

This is one in a series of virtual life coaching tips to help start your week of strong so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take one subject and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct questions.  The intention of this virtual ‘life coaching’ session is for you to write the questions in your success journal and then reflect on them and write your answers and thoughts in your journal.

These series of posts are for YOU!  If I’m not able to coach you personally one-on-one over the phone or in The 2nd Passage, I want you to at least get the benefit of a “virtual” mental strength coaching session.

Enjoy!

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To make sure you are focusing your attention and energy on what needs to be today while creating a crystal clear vision of you future.  The goal is to limit you focus and attention on the past, unless if supports you.

The average person tends to spend over 90% for their energy and attention on negative past events that can’t be changed.

My job here is to help you understand this and to assist you in building the habit of redirecting your thoughts back to the present so that you can create your future personal success.

Let’s Get Started:

Focusing on past events not only wastes your mental strength energy it actually helps you create more it in the future.  By giving attention to negative past events you “bring” then into the present and as you then attempt to move forward you drag them with you, only to relive them over and over in different forms.

This is kind of like the ghost of Christmas past in the Christmas Carol.  By thinking about negative past events you are creating chains that we wrapped around you and you then dragged them into the present and then into the future.

How many times have you asked “What does this keep happening to me?”

Now you know!

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking and Future Focus

  • Do you believe focusing more in the future helps a person reach their personal goals and personal success?
  • How much ROI (return on investment) does a person get from focusing on the past?
  • Why does the average person focus so much time and energy on the past?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Future Focus

  • The future will be here soon enough, I don’t nee to think about it.
  • I have no control over the future.
  • If I create a vision for my future, I’ll only be disappointed when it doesn’t happen.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Future Focus

  • Thinking about the future helps determine the actions should take in the now.
  • Thinking about the future creates a future pull and brings me closer to the manifestation of my vision.
  • Thinking about the future attracts the people, events and circumstances I need to create my vision of my personal success.

Outrageous Questions:

  • How much of your life have you wasted thinking about the past?
  • Do your results indicate you are focusing on the past or the future?
  • Would you have enough evidence to prove that you have the mental strength habit of thinking about your future vision of personal success?

Reflective Questions:

  • Do you see the value of becoming more vision and future focused?
  • What could you today to help build the mental strength habit of future vision focus?
  • How can I help you become more future vision focused?

Mental Strength Coaching:

I want to encourage you to begin to monitor your focus and attention on a regular basis and build the mental strength skill of redirecting your thoughts away from the past to your future vision.

Awareness is the key here to bring about this change and shift.

After a few days of observing where your focus and attention is being directed, you’ll begin to see the potential of redirecting it toward your future vision.

Another method of helping you raise your awareness is to actively listen to other people talking and notice if they are speaking mostly of the past, present or future.

This will help you recognize how much mental strength energy the average person wastes on the past.

Final Thought

Focusing on your future vision involves expanding your awareness of how the average person dwells on the past and how the mentally strong focus on their future vision.

There are enough examples out there to support this.  All you need to do is simply take the time to look for them.

By finding others that are future vision focused you’ll can emulate or model their mental strength habits and begin to point your attention towards your future so that you can achieve your personal goals and personal success.

If you’d like to get started on developing the mental strength skills of future vision focus request your Introductory Consultation today!

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Mental Strength Habits Of A Purpose Focused Man – Part III

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Jul 152011
 
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Welcome back! Or if this is your first time…welcome! purposed driven life

I’m writing a series on “The 21 Mental Strength Habits of a Purposed Focused Man.”  Each week I’m taking on habit and investing it and show how it plays a role in living a life on purpose.

I’m taking the perspective that with men there really is no “mid-life crisis”…well generally speaking.

What I believe a “mid-life crisis” is about, is a lack of focus and purpose.  At some point (around age 35) we begin to experience the illusion of “success” and start to question why are we doing “this?”

This basically is a loss of our sense of purpose. And when we forget our purpose, we lose our focus.  When we lose our focus we feel lost.  What the “mid-life crises” is, men attempting to find themselves and their purpose through unproductive behaviors.

In Mental Strength Habits Of A Purpose Focused Man – Part II we looked at the first mental habit of a purpose focused man, Sensory Life Vision.  Today we’ll continue with the next mental strength habit of Disciplined Mental Application.

The main point of these posts and my private intensive, The 2nd Passage, is to help men realize their purpose, vision and mission in life and assist them in articulating them so that they can live a purposed driven life.

Once they find and find “themselves” they can live a life of power, purpose, passion and perseverance!

I hope that through this series of posts and The 2nd Passage, I will help men who, admittedly or not, are experiencing a “mid-life emptiness” guide them back to manhood and step back into their masculinity.

So…now let’s continue with the first category, “Mental Habits”, of a highly focused purpose driven man

The second habit of purposed focused man is:

Disciplined Mental Application – This is Law of the Harvest, i.e. hard work

Purpose Focused Man

  • Mental strength to go after your vision with super intensity.
  • To sustain a period of long hard work without receiving any immediate reward.
  • Do what ever it takes to create their vision.
  • With faith they see their life vision getting closer with each hour, day, month and perhaps year.
  • Anything worth while will involve long hard work.
  • Pursuit of goal with absolute excellence.
  • Vision in action.

What this mental strength habit is about is embracing hard work and knowing that your purpose, vision and mission is worth it!

The purposed focused man is living a life with passion, power and perseverance and knows that nothing will stand in his way to achieving his vision.  He puts in the effort day after day knowing in the long run he’s going to be able to enjoy the fruits of his labor.

He works hard and smart now so that he can enjoy a rich and fulfilling life later.   He is an active participant in the creation of his life.

He takes action and lots of it!

Unfocused Man

  • Average effort – The highways of life a littered with those that put in an average effort.
  • Looking for the easy way out.
  • Wants the instant fix
  • Gives up when work when effort gets hard, especially when they hit their first obstacle
  • No persistence.
  • Procrastination.
  • What’s the minimum I can do?
  • Copies others.
  • Wants the end results with the little effort.
  • Settles for second best.

A man without focus looks for the easiest way to “survive.”  What’s the smallest amount of effort I can give and still get by?

He even goes so far as to copy others to try to short cut his “success.”  This is not “modeling”, this is taking what someone else has created and use it for his own advancement.

He’ll wish for ship to come in and he won’t even buy a ticket to get on board.  The only ticket he buys is the lottery ticket.

If he happens to start to take action and steps on his road to success, a man not living a purposed focused life with quite as soon as he hits an obstacle or the going gets tough.

He see’s the price to pay not worth the reward.

An unfocused man will come home and watch the success of other on TV.  He’s a spectator in his own life.

Self Assessment

So looking at the characteristic of this mental strength behavior, take this quick survey and see how well you’re doing… and please have the courage to be honest with yourself.

Disciplined Mental Application:

The habit of sustaining a long, hard work effort toward a desired end without receiving immediate results. The ability to see a worthwhile goal through to completion. The patience to build a foundation of success, step-by-step, with giving up because it seems like too much effort.

1                            2                            3                            4                            5

Never                  Seldom               Sometimes        Often                   Always

OK guys…if the first two posts didn’t get to you, I hope this one did!

If this post has raised some questions, consider investing in yourself, your vision and your life.  Take a look at The 2nd Passage for a way to put your power, passion and purpose into action and life a purposed driven life

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Mental Strength, Thinking Big And Personal Success

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May 172011
 
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We finished up our “Beyond Limits” class last night with a ‘teach back’ from each group. It was a great experience and thinking bigI’m looking forward to the next group of studies.

Until then, I wanted to share some thoughts on thinking big.  This is inspired by the book “The Magic of Thinking Big” by David Schwartz .

First, I’d like to tell you a story.  There was a kindergarten teacher who asks a child what she is drawing. “I’m drawing a picture of God,” the child replies. “But, sweetheart,” says the teacher, “no one knows what God looks like.” They will in a minute!” says the child

Now, that is a perfect example of Thinking BIG !!

Those that have the mental strength skill of thinking big have a childlike faith. Not a childish faith that lacks maturity and understanding, but an attitude of deep faith in themselves. If you are a big thinker, then you have that inner voice that asks “how can I…” and “what if…” You’re in tune with your own skills, talents, and abilities to be able to see the unseen and able to create from the ‘un-creatable.’

Here’s another example of thinking big:

The Italian sculptor Agostino d’Antonio worked diligently on a large piece of marble.

Unable to produce his desired masterpiece, he lamented, “I can do nothing with it.”

Other sculptors also worked this difficult piece of marble, but to no avail. Michelangelo discovered the stone and visualized the possibilities in it. His “I can see it and I can create it” attitude resulted in one of the world’s masterpieces – the statue of David.

Yes, sometimes, all it takes to reach personal success is to have the mental strength quality of an unstoppable belief and rock sold faith in your own creative talents… to turn your personal goals and imagination into reality and personal success.

But … if thinking big is all it takes, wouldn’t the world be full of people reaching their personal goals and achieving personal success?

Think big is simple…it’s not easy!

Let’s look at an example of thinking big; then maybe more light will be shed on this.

There is the story of Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin Costner) who hears an ethereal message (“If you build it, they will come”) that inspires him to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his Iowa cornfield … with the promise that the ghosts of famous baseball players will inhabit it for games at night.

Ray heard his inner voice (let’s just say his connection to source or his Higher-Self), believed in the possibilities (however far beyond obvious), talked about it with intention, clarity, and passion. He took action on his inner promptings, regardless of how nonsensical they seemed at the time.

Life is indeed a dream and the producers of “Field of Dreams” make this point during a scene where Ray’s father (John) asked:

  • “Is this heaven?”
  • Ray Kinsella: No -it’s Iowa.
  • John: I could have sworn it was heaven.
  • Ray: Is there a heaven?
  • John: Oh, yeah. It’s the place where dreams come true.
  • (Ray looks around, seeing his wife playing with their daughter on the porch.)
  • Ray: Maybe this is heaven.

Yes, those that think big find it easy to believe that all things are possible, and that life can be as passionate, pure and invigorating as fresh-cut outfield grass.  In addition to supporting thinking big and goal setting (the baseball field) the movie is also about trust and the power of vision.

High achievers has a vivid, specific and detailed account of their vision. Just like Ray, they have a personally compelling belief in the “inner voice” that prompts them along to take the little steps that eventually lead to bigger steps, unleashing the power of manifestation in their life.   This is exactly what I work on in “The 2nd Passage – A Vision Quest for Personal Meaning and Fulfillment.”

And that power basically says: whatever it is you think constantly about, feel good about when talking about it, or become immersed in with unwavering emotion and focus, will become clear for you -not only to your own senses but to those around you who were involved while you took that first small step.

Sure, we all know the movie was fiction – a fantasy film, based on W. P. Kinsella’s 1982 novel “Shoeless Joe” – however, when you watch the progression of Kevin Costner’s character (Ray), from the first few dismissals’ of his inner voice to his KNOWING that he was personally responsible for turning his vision into reality, you get to see a high achiever in the making….someone who has found their vision!

Dr. Michael Norwood defines vision like this:

“A Vision has many components. It may start off as a goal, a mission or even a dream.

However, whereas the goal, mission and dream describe something one accomplishes, a Vision is something one becomes.”

The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman: “How have you done so much in your lifetime?”

He replied, “I have dreamed. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamt about my dreams and turned then into my Vision. And when I awoke in the morning, I envisioned my day -I knew what action that I needed to employ to help me pull in the resources and people to support my Vision and make it a reality.”

Let me ask you, do you  truly spend at least 15-minutes a day/night imagining what you want in your mind, energizing it with feeling (i.e., putting yourself in the picture versus looking at the picture screen from the auditorium), and then affirming it mentally when you wake up or through out the day?

Come on … be honest!

In “Beyond Limits” we discussed how just 15 minutes of creative visualization a day can change you life in unimaginable ways. It’s just that most people don’t believe in their own imagination and own power.

There’s incredible wisdom and stinging truth in that statement and you might want to read this a few times until it sinks in.

More so than just mental strength and personal confidence, thinking big or being an idea-driven person is all about taking your wants to sleep, thinking constantly about them, talking about them, planning them with focus, and adding all the spices to your dreams that will give you the realization of actually manifesting your dreams bigger, better, and faster than ever.

The ability to image, and the ability to expect what we dream about to come true, are two of the finest qualities of being a human being. Together, with the mental strength belief in our own reality-creating power, we can truly be more then we think we are. As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U.S., said: “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”

So, dream on, set some big harry audacious goals….then take massive ACTION (without it, you’re just a day dreamer), add FOCUS (think about your dreams / desires enough to bring them into consistent awareness), and top them move forward with TRUST (that you will, without question, always get exactly what you ask for).

You truly are the one who STARTS it all – from daydream, to night dream, to living out your dream – regardless of how outside of you it may SEEM!

I’ll leave you with one final quote / scene from Field of Dreams. [On wondering who the voice was -telling him "If You Build It, They Will Come" ]

  • Ray Kinsella: What are you grinning at, you ghost?
  • Shoeless Joe: “If you build it -” (gestures toward catcher, who is Ray’s father, John
  • Kinsella) “-he will come.”
  • Ray : It was you?
  • Shoeless Joe: No, Ray. It was you.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this in the comments below.

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Warrior Mind Podcast Episode 31- Know Your Purpose

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Mar 122011
 
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In my perspective personal success is directly connected to a person’s purpose, vision and vision…why a person lives Warrior Mind Podcast(is here).  When the focus is moved from “how” to “why” this opens a person up to creating a fulfilling life rich with experience, wealth and peak personal performance.

Here is a summary of  Dilts’ Neurological Levels based on Bateson’s Logical Levels of Learning…with my twist.

Why We Live

  • Purpose – Spiritual
  • Vision – Higher Self – How do I see my life in totality?
  • Mission – Identity – Who am I…Who do I need to become?

How We Live

  • Values/Beliefs – Motivation – What do I believe and value about my purpose, vision and mission?
  • Capabilities – Direction – Strategies – How am I going to achieve my vision?
  • Behaviors – Actions – Tactics – What am I going to do to achieve my vision
  • Environment – Context/constraints – Where and When and I going to take the appropriate action to achieve my vision

I hope you enjoy the podcast.  Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Warrior Mind Podcast #30 – What is Your Purpose and How to Find it

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Mar 052011
 
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Why am I here?Warrior Mind Podcast

What should I be doing with my life?

What’s my purpose?

Consciously deciding on our “passion” based on our current capabilities, behaviors or our environment (includes what we want to have, i.e. possessions)

In my coaching and specifically The 2nd Passage I help clients with Purpose first, then move to Passion then to Power and finally Perseverance

Purpose (visions & mission) – The reason for which something (you) exists – Spiritual

Passion – Any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling – Emotional

Power – Ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something – Body

Perseverance - Steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. – Mental

In the below podcast I discuss this further.

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

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Keep Your Mouth Shut For Personal Success

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With the New Year approaching many of you are probably thinking about resolutions, goals and what you want to mental strengthaccomplish in 2011.  Often we get excited about our plans and begin to share them with our friends and family.

This always isn’t a good idea.

Here’s what Napoleon Hill said about sharing your dreams with others.

“Keep your major purpose and your plans for attaining it to yourself except in connection with your master mind groups. The reason for this is twofold:

a. Telling many persons, indiscriminately, will allow negative thinking persons to throw stumbling blocks in your path, or to discourage you from attempting to achieve your definite major purpose.

b. Too much talking about your definite major purpose may tend to dissipate the intensity of your desire to achieve your goal.

Either eventually would tend to destroy your enthusiasm and possibly even deter you from further efforts to achieve your definite major purpose.

So far as we are able to tell, this law of cosmic habitforce is absolutely neutral, just like the subconscious section of the human mind through which it operates. It will accept and carry out a negative pattern as readily as it will a positive one. If you allow the fear of criticism, doubt and other people’s negative suggestions to take shape in your mind, it will blot out the picture of your major purpose.

The reason for emphasizing this point is that it is a common tendency of people to boast and to express their greatest enthusiasm in the future tense, by telling what they are going to do. When you speak of your ambitions, if at all, use the past tense, after they have become accomplishments and are not just words.

A word of caution: Do not make the mistake of assuming that because you do not understand these principles completely, they are not sound. Follow the instructions and you will be adopting the method used by some of the greatest leaders ever produced. These instructions call for no effort that you cannot easily put forth. They make no demand on your abilities with which the average person cannot comply.” – Source: PMA Science of Success, pg. 500

As much as we get excited about our future and goals, to achieve our personal success it takes mental strength keep our moths shut and share our vision with a select few.

Let me know your thoughts about this in the comments below.

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