Are You Mentally Tough?

Developing mental toughness is your best weapon for living a constructive, focused, resilient, and fulfilling life.

Every day we’re challenged by people and circumstances that threaten to tear us down. Currently, COVID is tearing its way around the globe, infiltrating everyone’s life to varying degrees. In usual times, challenges present themselves in difficult family relationships, disappointing personal and romantic relationships, being surrounded by people you have outgrown, health issues, grief, and loss to name a few.

If you’re going through any of these problems, or something else in life, you’re not alone.

Everyone – is forced to deal with extreme challenges, including the most successful people on earth. Fathoming life is more like trying to straighten out a bowl of spaghetti, intertwined with ups and downs, as well as attachments and all those hoops to jump through. You can plan a straightforward walk through life until your heart is content, there will always be a curveball. What determines successful outcomes is HOW we deal with the challenges.

Have you ever wondered why ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things? Why some people are more motivated? Creating calm in stressful situations? Able to rise above their challenges and overcome adversity? Move through with little or no outbursts or meltdowns?

The answer is that they’re mentally tough.

Mental toughness is about being ready for whatever challenge comes your way and persevering through that bowl of spaghetti

Mental toughness is far greater than coping with problems as they show up. Mental toughness is a tool or tool kit that you carry with you at all times. When the going gets tough, you can reach into your tool kit and lift out which support tool you feel is right for you at that moment.

Fulfillment, peace, and joy require mental toughness. This is how best to describe ‘resilience’.

Mental toughness can be developed at any stage of life, on purpose by anyone, including you. With the right information and support. Like most things, a good tool kit takes time to cultivate, the rewards are your gift for persevering, and the gift comes in the form of a fulfilling life that breeds positive emotions such as satisfaction, peace, and joy.

Mental health, mental illness, and mental well-being are still avoided subject topics today. Thankfully, the pandemic has increased the awareness around the use of these topics which do affect everyone in one way or another. Yet how do we face the reality of what is going on in the mind?

In part, people are open to or choose not to talk about their mental health depending on how we have each moved through our own life experiences. Depending on how we have been programmed from early years, may play a part in how we think, feel, behave, and what we choose to share.

I for one was raised in a household where the expression of emotions was limited. This eventually caught up with me years down the line. Fortunately, someone entered my life who led me to the unveiling of limitations I inherited during my early years.

Whilst traveling through my own life, I encountered a life-threatening experience in 2006 that transformed into an opportunity and served up a different perspective on my life and how I truly wanted to live. By ‘live’ I am referring to the life we live internally, the voice in our heads, the feelings we sense in our body.

Seeking success, peace and enjoyment are some of the aspirations everyone works toward and truly deserves after the long yard that we put in. Seeking support that helps shape our lives and business week in and week out is a gift to self.

For a long time, I have been educating my clients to look after their minds in a similar vein as servicing and maintaining their cars.

Without thinking, we book our cars in for maintenance checks every few months. Each day we hop into the driving seat of our vehicle and take to the road. Do we expect it to function on high performance forever, of course not. We expect it to need a service, we even clear out those pockets of debris with a lighter level of maintenance – a kind of ‘on the go’ internal service by cleaning, vacuuming, and removing the rubbish that builds up from one journey to the next. Try and treat your mind the same way. The mind, and ‘us’ do benefit from regular services, checking in, and vacuuming the excessive thoughts from the mind. For many, this is conducted on a daily or weekly basis.

This analogy serves people well, I urge you to try this thinking. It normalizes how to care for the mind without it becoming a major issue. We all have mental health, however, the more attention to servicing it, clearing down the unwanted, unnecessary, and even the stuff that accumulates in the mind over time that causes rumination eventuating in troublesome thinking, can bring levels of peace you may never have expected.

Working with someone who supports change thinking, ‘Mindset’ is a usual term to phrase it, could be the best thing you could do for yourself today and into future days, weeks, and months ahead. There are so many options and interventions readily available since we have evolved so much. Holistic methods are my preference, as this depicts the ‘whole’ of you. While having a clear-out of what’s going on in the mind, a service, that upgrades our thinking, call it what you like, we are blessed with the finest of computer systems right here in our own heads. Giving it the care and attention it deserves is key.

Take a look at Change Your Mind – Change Your Life. This therapy is based on the fundamental shifts and changes that came about from my life-challenging experience back in 2006, I was given 12 weeks to live and decided this was not going to be my fate. I changed my mind, and this is why I am here today and doing the work I share with so many.

If in doubt as to where to start on your journey, book a complimentary 30-minute clarity call here and let’s see how we can work together.