How to Develop Mental Toughness

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Mental Toughness is having the mental ability to overcome obstacles and hardship in success and relationships. It is also becoming resilient and bouncing back.

What we tend to do in relationships and life is give up and get tired. The opposite side of the spectrum is learning to endure through high pressured situations.

The ability to be mentally tough is not something that becomes a good habit over night, but over a long period of time. It is an investment in yourself to learn and grow every day, applying what you learn in relationships, and taking action in challenging situations.

Instead of avoiding tough situations and conflict face the challenges. When you are tired and want to give up and quit. Keep going and keep pushing forward.

Take on more and challenge yourself to achieve more than you believe you are able too. For example, Applying yourself and multi-tasking many things at one time. Education, Job, and recreational activities, learning organize yourself, make to do lists, and schedules.

To be successful in any relationship or job you must persist. Be repetitive and repeat the same action over and over again until you master the emotion, thought, or feeling even if you experience fear and anxiety.

Face your fears head on. Fears are usually illusions. In most relationships we tend to fear saying what we think or feel. We fear standing up for ourselves. We fear rejection.

Many times we have to face our fears to set boundaries or make tough choices in life.

You’re making an investment in your well-being and future success in relationships, education, and job performance by facing your fears and challenging yourself to become your authentic self and reach your full potential.

Respond versus react. We have a tendency to react out of emotion, instead responding out of intelligence. Usually we get frustrated, upset, and act out in anger or rage.

Adapt and adjust to thinking before acting, and self-talking you’re way out of emotion and approach situations with calmness and intelligence. Respond and be diplomatic.

When challenges come, see them as opportunities for growth an maturing. Not losing something, or being rejected.

When you feel disappointed, accepted it for what it is, and empower yourself to use as leverage to discipline yourself to have a more positive point of view.

Turn your definition of failure around from a negative experience, to one that shows you failure is how we learn through trial and error. Failure is a stepping stone, and tells us what we’ve done wrong or right, and what needs to be adjusted and fine tuned.

Fail faster, the more you fail, the more you master the ability to come out stronger and on top. When you’ve failed a thousand times, you become a success. We usually see failure as a bad thing, and beat ourselves up, but in actuality everyone fails and doesn’t become a master any anything in life until they’ve spent 10,000 hours or more applying themselves and failing.

Persistence is key to success in relationships , jobs, and education. Applying yourself daily learning, and doing. Practice handling your anxiety, emotions, feelings, and fears. Changes come over time by months, years, and experience. They don’t happen over night or in a week or two. Be patient with yourself and others.

Look for mentors who have already achieved this, and learn from them to conquer the obstacles.