Mental Strength: Think Strong, Live with Intensity and Act with Urgency

By Epic Rios

Have you tried to Achieve Big Goals and Dreams in Life but were confronted with Fear, Doubt and Disbelief?

Do you want to learn How to Develop Amazing Mental Toughness, Resilience and Optimism for Succeeding in Sports, Business and in Overall Life? 

If so, then this Powerful Mental Strength book will teach you How to Develop a Winning Mindset and How to use the Power of Your Mind for Achieving Greatness in Life. 

This Mental Strength book is divided into 2 sections:

 

The first section, Mental Toughness, will teach you:

(A) How to develop extraordinary confidence, razor sharp focus and a positive mindset for pursuing and achieving your goals and dreams in life.  

(B) How to develop tremendous resilience and how to use mental toughness as a superpower for overcoming adversity, obstacles and challenges in life.

(C) How to develop and maintain unbelievable self-control especially when making important decisions and while facing intense pressure and distractions in life.

(D) How to greatly improve your self-image and self-esteem in order to relentlessly pursue your goals and dreams in life.

(E) How to become your own coach and self-motivate yourself to push yourself beyond your self-limitations.  

The second section of this book, Stoicism, will teach you how to become a "Warrior of the Mind" and how to develop your Character for Excellence in order to live a rewarding life. You will also learn:

(A) How to develop and live by important principles in life such as courage, self-discipline, risk-taking and taking action in life. 

(B) How to turn obstacles into opportunities as well as how to take full responsibility for your actions and decisions in life.

(C) How to mentally prepare for challenges in life in order to overcome them when the times comes. 

(D) How to remove distractions from your life and instead develop greater focus and awareness especially when faced with difficult challenges in life.

Simply, after reading this life-changing Mental Strength book you will develop an "unbeatable mind" and a true Warrior Spirit.  

You will also learn how to transform your life by taking full possession of your own mind and taking the necessary action to living a life of Greatness.

So are you ready to let go of Fear, Doubt and Disbelief and instead Develop Mental Toughness, Resilience and Optimism for Succeeding in Sports, Business and in Overall Life? 

Then BUY this Amazing Mental Strength Book NOW! 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Epic Rios
• Release date: Sep 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393454120

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Mental Strength

Think Strong, Live With Intensity

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This book includes:

(1)  Mental Toughness: The Ultimate Guide to Succeeding in Sports, Business and in Life

(2)  Stoicism: Simple but Powerful Stoic Principles for Living the Good Life

Mental Toughness

The Ultimate Guide to Succeeding in

Sports, Business and in Life

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter one: What is Mental Toughness

Chapter two: How to Develop Mental Toughness

Chapter three: Mental Toughness – Why it is Important and Why it is Useful

Chapter four: How to Use Mental Toughness

Chapter five: Mental Toughness and Your Health, Your Work, and Your Life

Chapter six: Mental Toughness and How the Military, Athletes, and Businessmen Use It

Chapter seven: What Makes Someone Mentally Tough

Chapter eight: Examples of Mental Toughness

Chapter nine: Strategies for Strengthening and Improving Mental Toughness

Chapter ten: Qualities of a Mentally Tough Person

Chapter eleven: Steps to Building Mental Toughness

Chapter twelve: Mental Toughness and Abuse

Chapter thirteen: Tips for Mentally Tough People

Conclusion

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Introduction

Congratulations on purchasing Mental Strength: Think Strong, Live with Intensity and Act with Urgency and thank you for doing so.

The following chapters will discuss what mental toughness is and how it is going to change your life.

You will learn what mental toughness is and how to build it. Not only that but you will also learn how mental toughness can be effective in business, sports and in life.  

It is important to state that there are plenty of books on the topic of Mental Toughness on the market that you could have chosen.  However, thanks again for choosing this one!

Every effort was made to ensure that this eBook is full of as much useful information as possible.

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Chapter one: What is Mental Toughness?

What is mental toughness?

Depending on who you ask, mental toughness can be defined as a person who is strong minded, a risk taker as well as confident, and/or resilient.

In addition, mental toughness is the way of measuring a person’s success in sports, business, education, at the workplace and in overall life. 

When you think of mental toughness you may think of tough athletes in sports such as boxing or rugby. 

In addition, you may think of a warrior such as a soldier or Navy Seal as someone that has mental toughness.

In the business world, you may consider the owner or the CEO of a company to have a lot of mental toughness.

However, mental toughness is something that everyone can aspire to develop throughout their lives but it requires repetitive practice.

Mental toughness first came about as a result of the training that is involved in sports training. 

More specifically mental toughness developed due to the attributes that enable someone to become a better athlete. 

In addition to the process of becoming a better athlete, the athlete learns to deal with difficult training and competitive situations that are going to come about from playing competitive sports without losing his/her confidence.

As time has gone on, the term mental toughness has begun to be used not only by those who work in the sports world with athletes but also by business leaders, members of educational institutions, every day working professionals and even members of a family household.

Quite often, the term mental toughness is used to describe a set of positive attributes that are going to assist someone in coping with situations that are difficult to deal with.

Some examples of positive attributes of mental toughness are:

Emotional intelligence: The ability to control your emotions even when faced in a stressful, negative situation and even when having strong negative emotions.  

Flexible and adaptive:  Having the ability to quickly adapt to any situation no matter what.

Risk-Taking:  A willingness to face fear and take on new opportunities and challenges in order to advance, grow and achieve success in life.

Accepting of Failure: The ability to accept defeat gracefully and then to immediately plan to bounce back in order to have another opportunity at succeeding or winning.

Optimistic: The ability to be extremely confident in yourself and positively know that you will win and achieve great success.

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As stated before, the term mental toughness is used to describe a set of positive attributes that are going to assist someone in coping with situations that are difficult to deal with.

For example, when it comes to sports, coaches and many sports commentators use the term mental toughness as a way to talk about an athlete’s mental state as the athlete overcomes a difficult situation in order to succeed in winning.

However, over the past fifteen years, researchers have tried to come up with a scientific definition for mental toughness so that criteria could be established as a way to measure mental toughness in order for analysis and comparisons to be made.

Here are three different research teams that have been able to come up with a definition for mental toughness in the modern world.

Research Team #1 (Jones, Hanton, and Connaughton)

According to Jones, Hanton, and Connaughton, "Mental toughness is having the natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to generally cope better than your opponents with the many demands in competition, training and lifestyle that a sport places on you.

More specifically, mental toughness means to be more consistent and better than your opponents in competition and under stressful situations.

Last, mental toughness means to be determined, focused, confident, and under complete control while under intense pressure during competition."

Research Team #2 (Clough and Earle)

The second team of researchers decided that mental toughness was a Personality Trait that consisted of four components.

These four components are:

Commitment

Confidence

Self-control

Daring or up to a challenge

According to this team of researchers, if you had each of these four components in your personality then you had the mental toughness trait.

Research Team #3 (Gucciardi, Gordon, and Dimmock)

According to this team of researchers they concluded that, "Mental toughness is a collection of values, attitudes, behaviors, and emotions that enable you to persevere and overcome any obstacle, adversity, or pressure experienced." 

In addition, this group of researchers also believed that, When it comes to mental toughness it is very important for a person to maintain razor sharp focus and motivation when things are going both good and bad in order to consistently achieve your goals.

Although these three research teams provided what they thought to be mental toughness, there is still no definite answer to what exactly is mental toughness.

However, having important characteristics such as confidence, optimism and razor-sharp focus are definitely important for having mental toughness.  

It is important to mention that there are psychologists that argue that there are different definitions or meanings when it comes to mental toughness and how it is developed.

For example, some psychologists claim that some attributes of those individuals who are mentally tough are going to be different from other individuals that are not developing their mental toughness.

One of the differences is that if you are a male your levels of mental toughness are going to be different from a woman’s levels of mental toughness. 

For example, men are taught to be physically and mentally tough from childhood all the way until they are full grown men. 

In addition, young boys are taught not to cry and to endure pain and this goes on throughout adulthood and for the rest of a man’s life.

Now there are many women that do have high levels of mental toughness and some women may even have higher levels of mental toughness then men.

For example, if there is a woman that endured hardship while growing up then she may have developed high levels of mental toughness throughout this period of her life. 

In addition, if a woman has been involved in competitive sports ever since she was a child then her levels of mental toughness are going to be greater than someone that has not competed in competitive sports.

Another factor that may determine your levels of mental toughness is the type of work you do and whether you have to interact and deal with people every day.

For example, law enforcement officers may have higher levels of mental toughness because they are constantly being faced almost daily with stressful situations and they need to learn to deal with and overcome these stressful situations.

More on Mental Toughness

Mental toughness can actually mean many things considering who you are asking. But to keep things simple, mental toughness can mean the ability to overcome pain, fear, doubt, disbelief and anything else that may prevent someone from succeeding at a specific task or goal.

Usually, when people think of mental toughness, people usually think of athletes that play competitive sports. 

However, mental toughness can apply to everyday people and even a parent that is raising a child with a physical disability.

One thing that is important to state is that mental toughness is not about having high levels of intelligence nor does it mean to be extremely talented.

Instead, mental toughness is about having the, Will to Win, or simply the mental attitude to never give up, never surrender, never retreat no matter what.

Where Does Mental Toughness Come from?

Mental toughness comes from within. More specifically, mental toughness comes from one’s thoughts, one’s "warrior spirit," one’s previous life experiences and one’s very own mind.

Mental toughness can be developed by facing challenges and overcoming these challenges.  In addition, mental toughness can be developed through practice and by being placed in stressful situations both physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. 

For example, in sports athletes will practice a difficult skill over and over again and in various challenging conditions in order to be mentally prepared if such challenge should actually occur during a game.

In the business world, mental toughness can be developed by an employee deciding to achieve very large goals and by accepting to work on challenging projects and assignments.

Accepting to work on challenging projects and assignments will mentally challenge any business person and will prepare him/her for more responsibility and possibly a better position within the company.

How Do You Develop Mental Toughness?

You can develop mental toughness by having a willingness to get out of your comfort zone and having new experiences that will shock your body, your emotions and your mind.

In addition, you develop mental toughness by deciding that you want to have a champion’s mindset and this can take place in sports, business and in any other area of your life.

More specifically, you develop mental toughness by exposing yourself to a wide variety of uncomfortable and challenging experiences.

Keep this in mind, if you decide to stay safe and comfortable in life avoiding challenges, change and growth then you will never develop mental toughness.

In addition, it is very common for people to live a very safe, comfortable life because people simply don’t want to stress themselves out.

However, great champions think differently.  Great champions have a Purpose in Life, a Clear Vision of what they want to achieve in life and Razor-Sharp Focus for achieving their purpose.

As a result, this is why champions achieve greatness in life. 

In addition, these champions know that there is a PRICE to pay for achieving greatness and they make a decision to pay the PRICE for achieving greatness and this is what makes them different from the rest of the world.

In the words of boxing champion Muhammad Ali, I hated training very early in the morning but I LOVED being Champion of The World!

In previous studies that have been done specifically for sports and the mental toughness of athletes, the studies have shown that there is not a common framework between sports such as tennis, boxing or even a team sport like baseball.

So, researchers sometimes find it hard to define what exactly is mental toughness because not every sport is equally physically and mentally demanding.  

Therefore, researchers have found it hard to exactly define what mental toughness is because every athlete in every sport is not going to have the same levels of mental toughness.

For example, a tennis player will have a certain amount of mental toughness but when you consider an athlete that is a boxer, the boxer’s levels of toughness automatically skyrockets.

Why?

Because the sport of boxing is more physically demanding or simply more of a physical sport than a sport like tennis which means boxing is a more mentally demanding sport.

Actually, it can be said that boxing is more mental than it is physical because of the guts it takes for a boxer to fight another boxer in