Mental Strength Tip #13 – Personal Success Starts With Integrity

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 you make the connection between self image and behavior and assist you in conduct in manner the builds and demonstrates confidence and self-esteem. One leads to the other, regardless of the order.  That is, you can think of yourself as confident and a great self-image and you will have the behavior to go along with it.  Or you can “act as if” and this in turn will change how you see yourself (self-image).  When both are aligned, you are taking action from integrity.

For the purpose of the tip integrity is when what you think, say and do are the same.  When a person is in integrity personal success and peak personal performance come with ease.  

Let’s Get Started:

Let, me as you….whom do you admire when it comes to conducting themselves in public and private, in a manner that you would describe as coming from integrity?        

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• Why did you select this person as your role model of integrity?
• How often do you qualify as behaving in integrity in your everyday life?
• What would it take for you to behave in integrity all the time?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Integrity

• You can only have integrity when you have money and no financial worries.
• It’s easy to have integrity if you can afford all the latest styles, fashions and gadgets
• Integrity is something you’re taught only if you grow up in a privilege situation.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Integrity

• Integrity is about self respect and respect for others.
• Integrity has nothing to do with money.  It’s about behaving in a manner that matches your self-image, inner dialogue and actions.
• Integrity is a reflection of your inner beliefs and values.  The more you think of these and take corresponding action, the integral you will be.

Outrageous Questions:

• What makes you believe integrity has anything to do with success and money?
• Who taught you your beliefs about integrity?
• Is it possible your self image is holding you back from a higher level of integrity?

Reflective Questions:

• On a scale of 1 to 7, 7 being highest, how would you rate yourself in the terms of you exhibiting integrity in your daily life?
• Do you believe there’s a link between self-image and integrity?
• Do you think the integrity (or lack of) exhibit has an impact on your relationships?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Once you’ve made the connection between self-image and integrity, it’s time to address the issues that are eroding your level of self respect.  I encourage you to really see yourself as the most integral person on the plant.  This will allow the kind of behavior that goes with that vision to unfold.  By doing this, you’ll be able to ‘test drive’ what it feels like to have the mental strength aspect of rock solid integrity.  The longer you ‘pretend’ to be this person, the more you’ll prefer to operate in this mode.  Loving and respecting yourself feels great, and carrying that into your interactions with others just adds to the jubilations you’ll experience.

Final Thought

Some might say that integrity can’t be coached, that’s it’s; something you just have or you don’t…don’t buy into it!  Almost anything can be coached if the coach is competent enough to break it down in to small steps and patient enough to give the person time to grasp it.  I encourage you to select a role model and simply pretend to be this person when it comes to operating from integrity.  Walk a mile in their shoes, and watch the transformation begin.  You’ll then have the mental strength to be aligned for peak person performance and personal success.

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.