Mental Strength Tip #143: Liberty & Personal Responsibility

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 remind you that the liberty to do what you do does not exist everywhere and it wasn’t free.  People are giving their lives daily to preserve our rights to create our own destiny.

Let’s Get Started:

Over the course of this century the ideals of liberty and personal responsibility have increasingly drifted apart. This means both ideals, liberty and responsibility, have become distorted. Personal responsibility cannot exist without liberty, and liberty will not persist without responsibility.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• What value do you place on the freedom you enjoy today in this country?
• Do the sacrifices of your countrymen inspire you to take advantage of the liberty they protect?
• When it comes to success, what does having the right to create your own future mean to you?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Liberty

• I was born in a free country and liberty is my birthright.
• I have tremendous opportunity but it’s smarter to play it safe.
• Having so much freedom scares me.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Liberty

• Freedom is the foundation of success.
• Without freedom we would all be slaves.
• I owe it to the people who die for my freedom to take full advantage of it.

Outrageous Questions:

• Are you using the gratitude for your freedom to inspire you on a daily basis to accomplish more?
• Are you taking full advantage of the free enterprise system so many people dies to create and protect?
• What beliefs and attitude would you have to change in order to use more of your freedom?

Reflective Questions:

• Do you feel you owe it to the people who sacrificed their lives for freedom to become successful?
• What does maximizing your potential look like?
• Are you aggressively pursuing your dreams or playing it safe, and how do you feel about that?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Without the liberty to choose our own actions and make our own choices, we lose the qualities of responsibility and virtue that make us uniquely human. Only human beings possess self-consciousness.

Only we can reflect on the options available to us. Only we have the capacity to step aside from our urges and emotions in order to choose freely. Animals are not responsible for their actions.

They act on impulse, on instinct, or according to training. We cannot hold them ethically responsible for the way they act. Humans alone can choose to change their behavior. We alone can be responsible or irresponsible, virtuous or vicious.

Final Thought

Liberty is not license. Liberty means freedom from compulsion. It means being free to choose your own actions, make your own plans, and act on your own beliefs and values. If social chaos and disintegration do not concern us, then we may demand freedom alone.

If, however, we wish to live a productive, rewarding life in a flourishing society we will affirm that in demanding liberty we agree to take charge of ourselves. Freedom from outside control merely leaves a chaotic void if not replaced by control from within.

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