10 Tips for Mental Toughness
Resilience – 10 tips for Mental Toughness
10 ways to get mentally tough and achieve your goals
1. When you have a setback think of it as a challenge to be overcome that will lead you to future accomplishment, not as a reason to give up.
2. When you encounter people who are negative about your aims remember that the key to achievement is to stay positive in the presence of negativity – it is easy to remain positive in the absence of negativity! Negativity is their problem, not yours.
3. When you have a failure let it be a lesson, learn from it, and then remember a time you succeeded and focus on that instead.
4. If you come to the realization that your goal is not achievable in its present form then amend the goal or the achievement date and then refocus, do not give up completely.
5. If you find that some part of your goal is outside of your control then review the goal, focus on what you can control and let go of what you can’t so that you remain on track.
6. Make the decision to take massive action towards achieving your goals and not to procrastinate, decide what needs to be done and do it now.
7. Take notice of the experts. If someone has already achieved the goal that you are aiming for then find out how they did it – read their book, email them, take them for a coffee, talk to them and use the information to your advantage.
8. Review regularly. Keep the end result at the forefront of your mind so that your sub-conscious knows what it needs to achieve, but check your progress throughout the process to keep on track and make adjustments when necessary.
9. When we are tentative we have no power so give your goal 100% effort. If you aim half-heartedly at your goal then your results will be equally lacklustre. Put everything you have into it to maximize your outcome.
10. Celebrate your achievements. Decide how to reward yourself for a successful outcome, have smaller rewards for reaching significant milestones. If you put some fun, and some pleasure, into the process it won’t be a problem remaining in the game
By John Shackleton www.johnshack.com
