Mental Strength Tip #142: Approval Addiction

 Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Personal development is essential to live a life of power, purpose and passion….with perseverance.  Personal development is about know how to full use all of your four personal resources; physical, emotional, spiritual and mental.

The mental aspect of personal development requires mental strength and mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of self-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 make you aware of the addiction of the masses and how it keeps this generally smart, educated group of individuals from realizing their true human potential.

Let’s Get Started:

We all want approval. We long for admiration, a pat on the back, a nudge or a wink that tells us we have done something right. The odd thing is that approval is a drug. It lures us in with a rush that is fleeting. We start chasing the rush and can lose our dreams and ourselves if we aren’t careful.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• On a scale of 1-9, 9 being the highest, how important is the approval of others to you?
• Why are most people addicted to the approval of others?
• Is calling this an addiction exaggerating its hold on you?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Approval

• It’s important to comply with other people.
• To get along, go along.
• Society rewards people who conform.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Approval

• Be true to yourself.
• Addiction to anything is limiting.
• I prefer acceptance, but I’m not addicted to it.

Outrageous Questions:

• If you had to prove you were not addicted to the approval of others how would you demonstrate this?
• If you shifted your addition approval to preference approval would you be more courageous?
• Would lessening this addiction make you a happier person?

Reflective Questions:

• In what ways could expanding your awareness of approval addition make you more successful?
• What is one area of your life in which you have modified your action to get the approval of others?
• In what areas of your life would you have been more successful if you did not seek approval?

Mental Strength Coaching:

One of the first steps in changing approval addiction is change the perception of success. A person’s definition of being successful becomes one of the foundational causes of Approval Addiction.  Unfortunately most of these definitions have nothing to do with how we really view a successful life.  So the Addict spends their entire lives pursuing something which in they might get the approval of someone else.

Final Thought

We must change our definition of success so that’s its personal to us and us alone.  This new philosophy isn’t complicated it simply involves listening to your soul, trusting and acting on that trust (faith).

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