Mental Strength Tip # 25 – Meta-Cognition For Personal Success

Achieving peak human performance and personal power begins with a mental strength mindset and empowering beliefs.  Reaching your personal goals starts in the mind and finishes with peak performance…taking massive action. 

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

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:

Metacognition – Thinking about your thinking.  The goal of this virtual coaching session is help you understand the value of thinking about what you think about, and how your thinking and thoughts affect and impact your personal performance and results.

Let’s Get Started:

We humans are the only species on earth who have the ability to evaluate our own thoughts and thinking. This ability to step outside ourselves, to observe and become area of our thoughts and thinking is one of the mental strength techniques that separate’s the average person’s from those that are in truly in their personal power.  The benefit of this self-consciousness awareness lies in your ability to objectively consider how your thinking is helping or hurting you in reaching your personal goals, and then making the adjustments in your thoughts to reach your peak personal performance.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• Do you believe thinking about what you think about can help you reach personal success?
• Have you used meta-cognition in the past to enhance your personal performance?
• Do you believe there is a cause and effect relationship between your thinking and your results?

 Unsupportive Beliefs about Meta-Cognition

• My thinking is fine.  It’s my results that need improvement.
• I’m too busy to think about what I think about.
• My thinking has nothing to do with what happens in the real world.

 Mental Strength Beliefs about Meta-Cognition

• The more aware I ma of what I’m thinking the easier I can adjust my thoughts.
• I become what I think about
• Mental strength thinking leads peak personal performance.

Outrageous Questions:

• What do you think about most of time?
• Are your dominant thoughts helping or hurting you achieve your personal goals?
• What thoughts would you considering releasing or changing?

 Reflective Questions:

• How can I help you increase your awareness of what you’re thinking about?
• Do you think it’s possible to get better results by changing your thinking?
• What would motivate you to become more aware of your dominate thoughts?

 Mental Strength Coaching:

My goal in the virtual session is educate you to build that habit of using meta-cognition, and to stop and become aware of your thoughts and your thought process.  You need to understand that is these thoughts that keep you away or move you closer to your personal goals.  When you understand and belief that there is a cause and effect relationship between your think and your personal performance you will develop the mindset to become a master of your thoughts.

 Final Thought

Depending on the study, the percent of negative thoughts a persons thinks per day is between 60 and 80%!  Even at the low end this is horrific! Your thoughts do directly affect your personal performance and your performance dictates whether you’ll reach your personal goals, hence your personal success.  Here are some tips to help you become aware of your thoughts:

PRACTICE: Get control of your daily stream of thoughts–think and feel more positively. These were real examples from that one day in my life. Try observing yourself for one day. Keep a log of them.

• Observe emotions and thoughts. What thoughts are associated with positive and negative emotions? Observe positive and negative emotions in a neutral, almost scientific manner. What types of thoughts precede positive versus negative emotions?
•  How are you viewing external events?  What external events preceded the positive and negative thoughts? What assumptions intervene between the external event and the negative thoughts? How can you question these assumptions or see them from a new or higher point of view?
•  List recurring positive and negative themes. What themes are present in many thoughts associated with positive emotions? With negative emotions? List them.
•  List inner sources of positive and negative thoughts. What parts of yourself (or belief systems) are producing these positive or negative thoughts? What additional parts of yourself can you use as sources of positive points of view and thoughts? Your Higher Self, positive interests, and positive belief systems are key sources. Themes supporting higher values such as truth, beauty, creativity, love, romance, art, growth, family, self-sufficiency, internal control, play, and kindness are powerful sources of positive thoughts. List them.
•  Plan to control your thought-stream (therefore emotions). List what you can do to decrease negative thoughts and replace them with more positive, realistic thoughts.

 If you’d like to get started on controlling your thoughts and  developing a rock solid mindset for personal power,  peak human performance, goal setting or achieving your personal goals request your Introductory Consultation today!

Or, if you’d like to study on your own today, order a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior.” This is a fantastic e-book that helps you take control of your thoughts, develop success awareness and helps you tap into the powers of your unconsciousness mind to create the mental strength to succeed at anything!

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

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