Mental Strength Tip #82 – Active listening 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 personal goals and personal success starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

This is one in a series of virtual success coaching and mental strength tips to help kick-start your week.  It is intended to enthuse 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 success coaching questions.  The intention of this virtual success 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 understand and become and an expert at one of the most underrated personal mental strength skills today: the art of active listening.

Let’s Get Started:

Active listening is a communication technique that requires you to feed back what you hear back to the person (doing the talking).  This can be done by either of re-stating or paraphrasing what you heard in your own words.  This confirms what you have heard and moreover, to confirm the understanding of both parties.

The ability to listen actively takes mental strength (being present) and demonstrates sincerity, and that nothing is being assumed or taken for granted. Obviously, it improves personal relationships, reduces misunderstanding and conflicts, strengthens cooperation, and fosters an understanding. It is proactive, accountable and professional and will help you in achieving personal success.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• How important is the mental strength skill of active listening to achieving personal success?
• Do you believe active listening is important enough to practice daily?
• What impact has your listening skills, or lack of, had on your personal success?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Active Listening

• Active listening is something you do while you’re thinking of how to respond.
• Active listening is a not really active and doesn’t really lead to anything.
• Talkers are leaders and listeners are followers.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Active Listening

• Active listening is one of the most important mental strength skills in personal success.
• Great listening is an interactive process.
• Active listening is something that should be practices daily.

Outrageous Questions:

• How would you rate your active listening skills: Poor, fair, good, great or a work in progress?
• How would your closet friends and family rate your listening skills?
• If you were a better listener, would you be closer to reaching your personal goal and personal success?

Reflective Questions:

• Who is the best active listener you know?
• What is one way you can improve your active listening skill today?
• How would improving your active listening skills improve your life?

Mental Strength Coaching:                                                             

Many people are delusional about their active listening skills and believe they are far better than they actually are.

My job in this virtual mental strength and success coaching session is to challenge you and take you into objective reality to examine your proficiency as an active listener.

Final Thought

Active listening is one of the most important pieces in the personal success puzzle.  It gives you a strategic advantage because so few people are really listening.

Humans have an innate desire to be heard and understood.  A crucial aspect in reaching your personal goals and personal success is developing the mental strength skill of active listening.

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” – Ralph Nichols

If you’d like to get started on understanding and developing your active listening skills request your Introductory Consultation today by going HERE.