Mental Strength Tip #144: Solitude As A Success Strategy

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 help you recognize and understand that your brain and mind are the most valuable success tools you have and that periods of isolation and solitude will allow you to reach peak performance on a regular basis.

Let’s Get Started:

Solitude is the soul’s holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. When we are hungry, we get the signal right away, and we pay attention. Thirst is sneakier. By the time our bodies send us in search of water, we are already dehydrated.

The same holds true in our thirst for solitude. By the time you begin to crave a vacation alone on a desert island, chances are your emotional well has already run dry. And so you need to learn create little islands of solitude in life.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• Do you believe solitude enhances your brains ability to think?
• Why does quieting the mind work so well for recharging oneself?
• Why don’t more people use solitude as a peak performance strategy?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Solitude

• Seeking solitude is new age nonsense that has no impact on right thinking and success.
• I don’t have time for solitude.
• Spending time in solitude doesn’t pay the bills.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Solitude

• Solitude is a mental strength success strategy.
• Solitude sharpens the mind.
• Solitude helps me escape excessive cognition and frees my mind for creative thinking.

Outrageous Questions:

• If you sought solitude more often would you be more successful?
• Are you using your creative mind to its full potential?
• Is it possible your unconscious mind has the ability to solve some of your more complex problems?

Reflective Questions:

• How could you being to use solitude as a peak performance strategy?
• What would you have to change to use solitude more effectively?
• Are you sure you fully comprehend the benefits and advantages of solitude?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Solitude is usually something perceived as a bad thing. Our whole society is built in order to fill these voids where you are alone with yourself. Solitude however is incredibly valuable because it allows you face yourself, and it’s also where creativity thrives.

Your feelings, your emotions, are the access point to your inner powers of mind. The most important part in the process of getting in touch with your feelings is to begin to practice solitude on a regular basis.

Solitude is the most powerful activity in which you can engage. Men and women who practice it correctly and on a regular basis never fail to be amazed at the difference it makes in their lives.

Final Thought

Creativity flourishes in solitude. With quiet, you can hear your thoughts, you can reach deep within yourself, you can focus.

To get the full benefit of your periods of solitude, you must sit quietly for at least 30 to 60 minutes at a time. If you haven’t done it before, it will take the first 25 minutes or so for you to stop fidgeting and moving around. You’ll almost have to hold yourself physically in your seat. You’ll have an almost irresistible desire to get up and do something. But you must persist.

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~Rollo May

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