Mental Strength Tip #9 – Mental Strength is Based Relativity

Achieving peak personal performance and personal success begins with a mental strength mindset and empowering beliefs long before a person ever experiences success.   

This is one in a series of mental strength tips to help start your week of strong.

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To remind you that everything is relative, and the obstacles and challenges you are facing often are insignificant when compared to others around the world.  No, this is not “…eat your food, because there are staving children in Africa” relativity (all though there are millions of starving children around the world).  This tip takes a deeper look at your perception of  your challenges.

Let’s Get Started:

When you face a set-back and challenges in life, it’s a waste of mental strength energy to have a pity party.  First, you’ll be the only one who shows up.  Second, this does not move you closer to your goal.  Third, think about this challenge…over half of the world’s population will spend this day simply looking for something to eat.  Now…how big is your problem?

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• When you say you’re facing a big challenge, what are you comparing it to?
• When you say times are tough, what exactly do you mean by that? 
• Are times tough for everyone, or just tough for you?
• Whose problems or challenges would like to trade yours for?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Relativity

• Relativity only relates to the physical
• Relativity is not a peak performance or personal success tool
• Other people’s hardships have nothing to do my personal performance or personal success

Mental Strength Beliefs about Relativity

• Reminding myself that others face much tougher challenges helps keep my problems in perspective
• Relativity helps me to feel grateful for what I have
• Relativity grounds my thinking and makes me increase my personal performance

Outrageous Questions:

• Why would you waste your mental strength energy indulging in a (self) pity party?
• In a world where many people spend their entire lives struggling to survive, what give you the right to complain?
• Do you have the mental strength required to move beyond this problems and look at a bigger picture?

Reflective Questions:

• Is the way you’re thinking right now moving you closer to or farther from your personal success vision?
• Is this thought process empowering or disempowering you?
• How can I help you move your mental strength energy away from these obstacles you’re facing and on back to your dream about your personal success and peak personal performance?

Mental Strength Coaching:

I know that at some level you already know that self-pity doesn’t serve you.  Sure at times it may feel good to sympathy from others.  But wallowing in a pity party does no good for you or those around you.

This tip is to help you wake up from the trance to keep things in perspective. This is a great ‘tool’ you can and should use when situations get tough and will help reduce stress and increase your personal performance.

Final Thought

Embracing the idea that everything is relative really puts things in perspective and will shift your thoughts from self-pity to gratitude.  The emotion of gratitude has the magical quality of increasing mental strength energy as its expanding mental strength energy. It’s a non-linear concept rooted in quantum physics.  What physical exercise is to the body, gratitude is to the mind.

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Also, “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior” is a fantastic e-book that helps you develop awareness, consciousness and mental strength with a step-by-step plan.

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