How To Build Up Your Mental Strength For Success (12 tips on becoming mentally strong)

Mental strength on the journey to being an Entrepreneur can be really difficult, rough, it has potholes and quicksand, poisonous snakes and bee stings. All kinds of craziness that you can imagine happening can happen to you.

People will take advantage of you, they will lie to you, they will even post things on social media about you that are probably not true. I’ve made some serious mistakes, and have lost a lot of money.

I’m not saying this to scare you but the point I want to make is you will have challenges.

If you have a very thin skin and in order for you to be successful at a very high level, you will need to endure a high level of pressure, a high level of stress and even a high level of obstacles but the purpose of that is to strengthen you so you can shoulder the burden of Success because success is in fact a burden.

A lot of people don’t have this and when things start to get tough they say oh well, let me go back to school, continue doing what’s mediocre.

Let me find a way not to leave my dream because it seems like it’s too hard.

If you want to make it in this business, you have to have mental strength.

So here are 12 things on How to be Mentally Strong. Once you get the feel for what it takes to be

mentally strong then everything else is easy.

1. Don’t be afraid / Fear to be alone. Don’t confuse loneliness with alone time. You need quiet time, quiet your mind. Find that spot where you can just be still.

2. Don’t dwell on the past. Live in the moment and stop dwelling on what happened in the past. There’s nothing wrong with taking from what you’ve learned from the past and use it to grow. What I mean is don’t dwell on the negative past. It’s done, it’s over with. Move on. “You cannot have a junk yard of failed experiences that you keep driving by and looking at.....Live in the NOW!

3. Don’t feel the World owes you. You owe it to yourself to be your best. It’s about getting in the mirror and looking at who you see? You need to give yourself everything you got because nobody else is going to give you anything. You owe yourself the best version of yourself. You owe yourself to push yourself. Don’t blame anyone for your situation, focus on how you can be better and how you can keep moving forward.

4. Don’t expect immediate results. Way to often we spend our time trying to get a microwave result from a crock pot effort. You cannot have a microwave mentality, success is not in a microwave. No one who is having sustainable success is doing it in a microwave. You have to stop having an immediate result mentality. You are where you’re suppose to be.

5. Don’t worry about pleasing everyone. Pleasing everyone is the strongest way to deplete your soul. People who feel the need to people please, do not have a solid foundation of self esteem to realize that they are already good enough as they are. Focusing on pleasing everyone is a bad habit to have.

6. Don’t waste time feeling sorry for yourself. Tighten up and don’t feel sorry for yourself. When you have a failure, own it, accept it, figure out how to fix it and try again. That’s how you move past your failure.

7. Don’t waste energy on things you can’t control. Read the serenity prayer, it speaks to this.

8. Don’t let others influence your emotions. If you have a hard time with this, a good book to read is “Emotional Intelligence” breaks down 6 different types of intelligence that you have emotionally speaking. If you have a hard time being influenced by others who change your emotions from this to that.

9. Don’t resent other people’s success. Don’t be a hater. It’s not a reflection on you. It doesn’t make you less successful, celebrate it and keep working hard, your time is coming.

10. Don’t shy away from responsibilities. Stop taking short cuts and hacking away for the shortest route. Take responsibility and study what you need to learn before asking the questions so you can get the best result possible.

11. Don’t give up after the first failure. Recognize where you went wrong and try again.

12. Don’t fear taking calculated risks.

Find which one of these is you and work on it!