Mental Strength Tip #101: Personal Development And Success

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals begins with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs.  This creates self empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals and personal success 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.

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Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To help you understand the importance of consistent personal development for personal success.

As Mark Twain explains, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Let’s Get Started:

Life without growth would be a pretty dull existence and if you’re not growing…your dying…there is no standing still in nature.

Many people have times when they are choosing not to develop personally due to life situations like fear, routine, outside interference, etc. However, those very situations can bring about unconscious growth when we are handling new challenges.

Growth is the essence of personal development and the development of mental strength to learn all that we are capable of. As we learn, develop and grow, we avoid the discontentment, resentment and disappointment that can be the consequence of a life without personal development.

Personal development is important. It provides us the opportunity to create a better quality of life physically, mentally and spiritually…to achieve our personal goals and reach personal success.  It opens doors and provides the satisfaction that comes only from accomplishment.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• How important is personal development to achieving personal success?
• What does personal development mean to you?
• What percentage of your success would you attribute to your ongoing personal development program?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Personal Development

• Personal development isn’t as important as professional development
• Personal development and self-help programs are for uneducated people
• Personal development is unrelated to financial success

Mental Strength Beliefs about Personal Development

• If I become a better person I’ll get better results
• Personal development helps me understand myself
• Personal development teaches me create mental strength and think at a higher level

Outrageous Questions:

• How much money have you invested in personal development in the past year?
• How much time you have invested in personal development in the past 6 months?
• Do you believe you are responsible for our own personal development?

Reflective Questions:

• How could you use personal development in the 3 to 6 months to help reach your personal goals?
• What is our personal development plan of action for the next 90 days?
• What’s your favorite form of personal development?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Three reasons why personal development is essential for personal success

1 – Personal development directs your attention to important things.

There are many things in life that can distract your attention away from the important. Those distractions are mainly in the form of short-term pleasures. They may make you feel good in the short-term but cause your long-term growth to suffer. Personal development helps you direct your attention back to what are important. For instance, personal development reminds you of the universal and timeless principles that can guide your life for the better.

2 – Personal development increases your capacity

Not only does personal development direct your attention to what are important, it also helps you increase your capacity in those things. You have certain capacity to handle different kinds of challenges in your life and you can only handle challenges that lie within your current limit of ability. Personal development is a way to increase your limit so that you can handle more difficult challenges.

3 – Personal development connects you with positive people

When you focus on something, you tend to find things that are related to it. For instance, if you are learning economy, you will spot many more economic-related stuff than you normally would. That’s because your mind has a filter that filter out irrelevant things. When you focus on something, your filter is set in such a way to give you more of it and less of other things

When you focus your attention on personal development, you are more likely to find like-minded people than you would otherwise. Having these positive people around you will in turn make it easier for you to grow. It’s a virtuous cycle that brings you to higher and higher level in life.

Final Thought

When you learn how to handle yourself and your own life circumstances, you will also learn how to develop better relationships in your life. From friends to family, you will be better equipped to handle unexpected problems and cultivate positive, healthy relationships with others.

“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.” – Plato

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