Mentally Lethal - The Boot Camp For True Empowerment: 10 Key Principles For Self-Discovery, Discipline, And Success To Start Living A Life In Your Control

By Corey Mercke

Do you want to live a life under your control? Do you want the discipline to achieve the level of success you deserve while discovering your true purpose? Then you need to keep reading...

Did your car die in the middle of traffic just now?

Did you just get stood up for that fir

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lumeria Media LLC
• Release date: May 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781087874296

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Lesson One – Learning the P.A.S.E.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. – Louis XIV

The beginning starts with you. I’m sure you’ve heard this or something similar to the effect, yet the statement itself stands as a beckoned reminder of something much larger than you first thought. It’s a reminder of WHERE you need to begin your first steps–that’s with YOU!

Tai Lopez, author, speaker, and mentor puts it like this, "the fastest way to figuring out anything in your life, especially who you are, is through Inversion. What I mean is to figure out who you are, first figure out who you are not."

Point made here with you–people have this tendency to habitually change their minds faster than a goldfish can remember anything (which is about 4 seconds), displaying more inadequacies that only lead to further mental clutter, which leads to continued hastily decided to try and alleviate their new mental congestion, thus again leading to more chaos and so forth as the cycle repeats itself.

ENOUGH!

First things first.. breathe. Get quiet and breathe. I want you to grab a sheet of paper, better yet, a notebook as there will be several activities within this manual to help you align yourself with the results you will see here shortly, and notebooks, like journals, are priceless in this practice.

What we’re doing now is setting the PASE.

We will break down who you are in a metrical sense and figure out what drives you, what makes you tick when you make that first step.

PASE stands for Practical, Action, Social and Emotional. If you’ve taken any number of personality tests out there, you know exactly what I am saying here. We need to figure out the micro-view of who you are while keeping the macro-view in the background to put the pieces together.

Exercise 1 - Take the paper and write out in four blocks these four words, like this one:

Practical

Action

Social

Emotional

Now, time to break these parts down and put you in the middle of them. In each part, list a few characteristics that most accurately describe you, using the definitions of each below.

Practical: Very metric and analytical based minds. If this is you, you like to ‘know all the facts’ before deciding on something or a first move. Nothing wrong here! Some people generally want to be informed, even overly, and that makes for an honest approach.

However, the disadvantage here is the clarity this person is waiting for is the same obstacle that can hinder ANY movement before it is ever made!

You will notice these people around you by their forms—like their posture, timeliness, and how they enjoy being in structured routines. They’ll have many great ideas yet struggle for the trigger before they are caught too far in the information. There is no alarm here if you fall into this category; these rational thinkers are another valued aspect making the world turn… while disagreeing with just about ALL the changes it goes through.

Action: These guys like to jump at the first chance they hear something good; no, I mean it! Action-oriented movers make up most of our athletic entertainers and have an uncanny ability to jabber. If this is an aspect of your personality, then look at how quickly you become bored—this may be a sure sign of how often you might have a million ideas running through your mind you are attempting to tackle, one to the next, before you finish the first!

Check yourself (twice), as this trait is a tool, and when molded correctly, it can be that nudge that keeps you from sitting on the 0 and 1 block of decisions and activity. The key here is patience, a hard word to fully absorb in today’s society, but learning to quell this trait can keep you from setting yourself back ten years because you may have leaped but in the wrong direction.

Social: My mother, bless her heart, would kill me for writing this because she is the social queen of queens; I’ve never seen someone work a room better than any politician than she. Social people don’t just love the conversation; they live for it! They can laugh, dance, and sing about absolutely nothing, and that is perfectly okay with them. These guys have some of the lightest of souls, having many cares and worries added in, and love being the life of the party from Monday to Sunday.

Your notion here is where the caring falls–do you care more about the group than yourself? Well, you might be that Social bug people love to be around. Or better yet, how about how much you dislike any ‘formal’ style of event–not for you, huh? Well, no worries, because social people are another substantial aspect that makes up the whole here in how we get through this.

Emotional: The ‘charismatic givers’ of the group here. If a few tears form at your eyelids for a deceased animal along the road, or if you have any Italian blood in your veins, then you might just fall into this category, some for the emotional side. Make no mistake, emotional traits are innate in every creature on this planet; however, the cosmically conscious humanoid reading this passage here can decipher between the multitudes of emotions we express on a minute-by-minute basis.

These guys don’t handle rejection well but are very sensitive to their own and other’s needs and feelings, even to an empathic level. If you align with this trait, be very grateful for its acknowledgment to start, yet take an inventory now of your last five or so days and think about your emotions–think about where and how you felt your anger, happiness, passion, resentment, or worry. Next, try and see how sensitive you may have been to those emotions with any recent events. How attached were you to your emotions? How long did you hold on to them after the situation was over?

If you fall into this category, consider yourself lucky to tap into the emotional side of yourself. Yet, this area should be the most that needs to be noted and kept aware of given its level of influence for active decision making.

Now, time to break yourself down –WHERE DO YOU FALL??

Are you the one who takes action after getting the information, Practically, then move into your Emotions before caring about what’s being said at the Social hangout (i.e., the water cooler).

I want you to list yourself out within the four squares we drew above. As the ancient Greeks of Delphi put it, ‘know thyself.’ Add that to the honesty here; I want you to take your time and be completely honest with yourself about what makes you tick on a larger scale. How do these traits square you up if you took a 10,000-foot view of YOU–would you see APES spelled out or PSAE or any other set of acronyms these four letters form?

This is your starting point to change–figuring you out in your 3-foot world so you can begin to change your 3-mile world entirely!

Learn HOW you learn

(Lesson One (A))

Most people do not realize that they learn differently. We have been taught in schools across the globe that this stereotypical method of how we think is unanimously the same. WRONG! We are different–from different blood types to genomes and so forth, you name it, we are different. For how we learn, we are very different indeed. To help break this down deeper, think of this in three parts: readers/writers, listeners, and speakers. Our current school system would have you believe that we all learn by being lectured to and then forcefully pressed within a particular time gap to regurgitate our force-fed information accurately with a few curved questions to possibly get us thinking about our answers (either positively or negatively (second-guessing)). Either way, the answer is NO; my friends, the system and its supporters couldn’t be any more wrong in the sense of how we come about individually ingesting and interpreting our newly realized knowledge.

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