Mental Strength Tip #114: Happiness and Personal Success
Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!
Exceeding your human potential, achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals starts with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of empowerment.
Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential 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 persuade you that being happy always serves your best interests personally and professionally.
Let’s Get Started:
Shawn Achor in a CNN column mentions “some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually raises every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we miss this? Why do we have these societal misconceptions about happiness? Because we assumed you were average.
When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is. If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.”
Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:
- Does being happy contribute to your personal success?
- Does being happy contribute to your feelings of fulfillment?
- Doe being happy allow you see to brighter side of life?
Unsupportive Beliefs about Being Happy
- Being happy has nothing to do with achieving personal success.
- Being happy has no impact on my human potential.
- Being happy is for the woo-woo foo-foo.
Mental Strength Beliefs about Being Happy
- Being happy has a positive impact on relationships.
- Being happy opens doors.
- Happy people are more fun to be around.
Outrageous Questions:
- If you were happier in your business would be more successful?
- Are you afraid to me happier for fear of being seen as naive?
- Who has more courage: The pessimist who fears the worst or the optimist who expects the best?
Reflective Questions:
- Would your life be more fun is you were happier?
- On a scale of 1-9, 9 being the happiest, how happy are you on average?
- What beliefs would you have to change in order to be happier?
Mental Strength Coaching:
This virtual mental strength and success coaching session to remind you the pessimism is deeply rooted in fear, while optimism is rooted in love.
A frightened individual who is in the habit of using fear as a protection mechanism will require more mental strength to make the shift.
Final Thought
Shawn Achors continues, “Many people think happiness is genetic. That’s only half the story, because the average person does not fight their genes. When we stop studying the average and begin researching positive outliers — people who are above average for a positive dimension like optimism or intelligence — a wildly different picture emerges. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”
You can read the entire column here
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