Mental Strength Tip #54 – Critical Thinking And Personal Success
Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!
Achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals begins with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs. Reaching your peak potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive 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 I’m not able to coach you personally 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 think at a higher level of consciousness and challenge what the masses claim to be fact so that you can use critical thinking to reach your personal goals and personal success.
To assist you in understanding that average people achieve average results through average and thinking and to achieve better than average results you must challenge what the average person says is “true,”
Let’s Get Started:
Think about this for a moment, Think back to a past experienced when you followed someone or some idea you were sure was correct only to have it turn out wrong. You see, them mentally strong always question the facts and search for a better solutions.
The goal here is to move you from positive thinking to critical thinking.
Positive is thinking is OK if you simply want to take baby-steps out of being average. But come on…you’ve been reading these posts of over year, isn’t time to step-up your game?
Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:
- Do you believe there is always a better way to accomplish something?
- What do you believe most people mean when they refer to themselves as “realists”?
- Why do you believe most people refuse to challenge the facts?
Unsupportive Beliefs about Critical Thinking:
- I can’t afford to challenge the facts. I’m barley surviving.
- I’m too busy to challenge the facts.
- Challenging the facts is for dreamers and trouble makers; I live in the “real world.”
Mental Strength Beliefs about Critical Thinking:
- There is always a better way to do everything.
- There is always a higher level of consciousness way of thinking.
- When the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.
Outrageous Questions:
- Give an example of a time you challenged the facts in your life?
- Would your three closets friend say you are more of a follower (a cow) or a leader (a rhino)?
- Do your results prove you are a leader (a rhino)? – Or a follower (a cow)?
Reflective Questions:
- How can challenging the facts help you achieve your personal goals and personal success and love a happier life?
- Give me an example of something or someone you unconsciously followed without a challenge?
- On a scale of 1-9, 9 being most often, how often do you challenge the facts in your life in hops of reaching your personal goals and personal success?
Mental Strength Coaching:
The idea here is to get you to really think about who and what you are following, and to consider the possibility, through critical thinking, that there is a better way and different way of reaching your personal goals and personal success.
The goal here is to open up your mind to greater possibilities of achieving the life you want.
Investigating this can create anxiety for you, because the facts as you know then are part of how you make sense of the world. Now I’m asking you to challenge them
Be kind to yourself and push yourself at the same time to challenge the facts, as you see them.
Final Thought
Coaching you to challenge your perceived facts is more about your persistent questioning and prodding than it is about education about the “facts”. It’s better when you come to your own realizations.
This will help you develop your mental strength so that you can achieve your personal goals and personal success.
If you’d like to get started on developing your critical thinking and a mindset for personal success, request your Introductory Consultation today!
OK…now it’s your turn! Let me know about your thoughts on this subject in the comments below.
