Mental Strength Tip #12 – Adversity is Essential for Personal Success

Achieving peak personal performance and personal success begins with a mental strength mindset and empowering  beliefs.  Personal success starts in the mind and finishes with peak performance…taking massive action. 

This is one in a series of mental strength tips to help start your week of strong so that you can reach you peak performance, personal success and develop your personal empowerment.

I take one subject and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct questions.  The intention of these ‘sessions’ is for you to write the questions in a success journal reflect on them and answer them.

This series of posts is for YOU!  If I’m not able to coach you personally one-on-one, I want you to at least get the benefit of “virtual” coaching.

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To help your perception about the role adversity plays in reaching personal peak performance and personal success.

Let’s Get Started:

Let me ask you, what does difficulty mean to you? The way you answer this question will reveal a lot about your beliefs surrounding success and your performance (how you show up).  If you feel that you life is hard, unfair and only the “lucky” or unscrupulous succeed…well then you’ll need to spend some time at mental strength bootcamp.  If however, you understand that adversity is a sign that you’re taking action and you’re on the path to personal success….well then, let’s move on!  

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• What does adversity mean to you?
• Have past adversities been more harmful or helpful over time?
• What have you learned about overcoming adversity that has helped you the most?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Adversity

• Adversity creates stress and wears you down
• Adversity leads to burnout
• Avoid adversity at all costs

Mental Strength Beliefs about Adversity

• Adversity facilitates growth
• Adversity forces you to think at a higher level
• Adversity allows you to regroup with more information

Outrageous Questions:

• Is it impossible to overcome this adversity or just impossible for you?
• When you say you’re facing a major adversity, what are you comparing it to?
• How can this seemingly insurmountable adversity actually have a basic/simple solution?

Reflective Questions:

• How can I support you in getting the biggest benefit from this adversity?
• What steps can you take today to overcome or cope with this adversity?
• Can you see the ling tern benefit of this adversity?

Mental Strength Coaching:

The first step here is to determine your current level of consciousness (that’s where answering the above questions come in) and then begin moving your thinking to a higher level of awareness.  This is done by helping you understand that your greatest achievements and breakthroughs have come and will come out of your greatest adversities.  Building this mental strength habit of being more concerned about how you respond to adversity as opposed to the adversity itself is a continual practice.  The more you practice, the better you get.  The better you get, the more you’ll achieve your peak personal performance.

Final Thought

Peak performance individuals aren’t out looking for adversity to conquer, but they are mentally equipped to deal with them as the need arises.  Just as the military guard out boarders, the mental strong are well prepared and trained to handle any threat on any lever and respond in a proportional manner.

My job as a mental strength coach is to help you develop the beliefs that you have the ability and skill to adequately deal with any adversity that life throws at you. Once this belief takes hold, you become fearless, courageous and free to attack life with all the talent and ability you have inside!

If you’d like to get started on developing radical mental strength for personal development, personal empowerment or personal success, request your Introductory Consultation.

Also, “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior” is a fantastic e-book that helps you develop awareness, consciousness and mental strength with a step-by-step plan.

OK…now it’s your turn!  Let me know about your thoughts on this subject in the comments below.