Mental Strength Tip #49 – Faith and Personal Success
Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!
Achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals begins with a mental strength mindset and empowering beliefs. Reaching your peak potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired action.
This is one in a series of virtual life coaching tips to help start your week of strong so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.
I take one subject and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct questions. The intention of this virtual ‘life coaching’ session is for you to write the questions in your success journal and then reflect on them and write your answers and thoughts in your journal.
These series of posts are for YOU! If you’re not able to coach with me personally ether one-on-one over the phone or in The 2nd Passage, I want you to at least get the benefit of a “virtual” mental strength coaching session.
Enjoy!
Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:
To help you take an inventory of your faith in yourself, other and anything beyond yourself.
To assist you in understanding the necessity of having a high degree of faith in yourself, and to suggest that you consider faith in a Higher Power if you have not considered this before.
The goal here is not a religious or spiritual conversion, but the ability to tap into a higher energy field that has the power to dramatically increase power, purpose, passion and perseverance.
Let’s Get Started:
I’d like you to consider how much faith you really have in yourself, others and a “higher” force beyond you.
I am quite aware that this can be perceived as entering sacred territory as it relates to your religious and spiritual beliefs, so we’ll proceed with caution.
Turning you off in this area could destroy the trust we’ve established so far and could jeopardize this virtual life coaching relationship. So let’s proceed with caution, tolerance and empathy, sounds good?
“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.” – Victor Hugo
Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:
- What role does faith play in creating personal success, reaching your personal goals and living a life of fulfillment and happiness?
- Would you be offended if I asked you what role religion or spirituality plays in your life?
- How have your religious or spiritual views helped you through though times?
Unsupportive Beliefs about Faith
- Faith is about religion.
- Faith is about how I was brought up.
- Choosing a faith that I agree with will be going against my parents and others.
Mental Strength Beliefs about Faith
- Faith is about believing in something that cannot be seen or proven.
- Faith in myself is critical to achieving my personal goals and personal success.
- Great faith manifests power, purpose passion and perseverance.
Outrageous Questions:
- Are your religious or spiritual beliefs really our own or someone else’s?
- Are you mentally strong enough to question your own religious and spiritual beliefs?
- Are your religious and spiritual beliefs helping you or holding you back from achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals?
Reflective Questions:
- Have you ever considered the impact your faith has on your life and your career and your personal success?
- Do you believe people who refuse to question their own beliefs about religious and spiritual views are less or more empowered?
- Are people who refuse to discuss religion, sex, money or politics operating from love or fear?
Mental Strength Coaching:
I understand that for many people faith is what helps them connect the dots and make sense of the world. They fill in the gaps of understanding with faith in things they cannot see or prove. The average person will most likely become offended and think I’m challenging their most sacred beliefs, no matter how delusional they are.
I’m aware that if this comes across too strong you might interpret this virtual coaching session as threatening to your beliefs and it might frighten you into a fear based response.
What I am really attempting to accomplish here is to challenge you to think about fait at a higher level of consciousness and learn how to use it as a mental strength tool.
Final Thought
A discussion and coaching around faith is tricky and worth the effort to an individual dedicate to their personal success. To leave a source of great energy and power untapped is unthinkable to me and many others. Napoleon Hill felt so strong about this subject he dedicated an entire chapter to it in “Think and Grow Rich.”
“As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.” – Emmanuel Teney
If you’d like to get started on developing a the faith and rock solid mindset for personal power, peak human performance, goal setting or achieving your personal goals request your Introductory Consultation today!
OK…now it’s your turn! Let me know about your thoughts on faith in the comments below.
