7 Habits of People With Remarkable Mental Toughness In Nigeria
Yesterday, we published an article on habits of people with remarkable willpower in Nigeria. Today, we want to follow it up with this article on habits of people with remarkable mental toughness in Nigeria.
Some are born mentally tough by virtue of their intelligent quotient but others achieve toughness. Don’t worry if you are not born with it, you can achieve it on your own.
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You don’t have to be born mentally tough. Here’s how you can develop the vital trait.
This saying by Jeff got me thinking; “the ability to work hard and respond resiliently to failure and adversity; the inner quality that enables individuals to work hard and stick to their long-term passions and goals.”
To succeed, you have to remarkable mental toughness. This is no joke. Successful people do a lot of things that mediocre don’t do. They are great at delaying gratification, withstanding temptation, overcoming fear in order to what is necessary, and they just don’t prioritize, they consistently keep doing what they have been doing that is most important.
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Habits of people with Remarkable mental toughness
Here are ways you can become mentally stronger and more successful:
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Always act as if you are in total control
You are encouraged to pray as if everything is in your hands and then act as if everything depends on you. That is the mentality of the people with mental toughness. Everything is up to you to figure out knowing that God got your back.
The people with remarkable mental toughness don’t feel the place of luck in their lives whether they fail or succeed. They act as if success or failure is totally within their control. If they succeed, they caused it. If they fail, they caused it.
It is folly to waste your mental energy on the things that would have been. Focus on what you can do make things happen. That is the real way. Not the other way. That is what mentally strong people do.
2. Put aside things you have no ability to impact
You should have in mind that you cannot do everything. Your mental strength is like your muscle strength. There are so many things you can and so many others that you can’t. Don’t waste your energy on things you can’t control.
People with remarkable mental toughness are experts in knowing when not to bother themselves with certain things.
3. See the past as valuable training and nothing more
There are mistakes that are made in the past. It should be lessons and nothing more. Learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others.
The past is just training; it doesn’t really define you. It is advised that you think about what went wrong but only in terms of how you will make sure that next time, you and the people around you will know how to make sure it goes right.
4. Celebrate the success of others
People with remarkable mental toughness see the success of others as something good and that it doesn’t have negative implications for them.
It is distinct from others who think that when someone else shines, they diminish the light from their stars. This breeds resentment and, believe me, resentment sucks up a lot of mental energy. You could use that energy for something more productive.
Don’t resent awesomeness. Create and celebrate awesomeness, wherever you find it, and in time you’ll find even more of it in yourself.
5. Never allow yourself to whine. (Or complain. Or criticize.)
There is so much power in your words and this has effects especially for you. It is not ideal to always whine about your problems. It doesn’t make you feel better.
What people with remarkable mental toughness do in these situations is put their mental energy into making the situation better.
You can do the same. There is no need to waste time. Stop talking about what is wrong and begin to fix what is wrong.
6. Focus only on impressing yourself
Why waste time on impressing others. They don’t give a shit about you. It is true. Forget the fact they love you for some of your qualities or possessions but in the holistic picture, they don’t care.
Try to be yourself and impress yourself. You will save a lot of mental energy doing that.
7. Count your blessings
Count your blessings and name them one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. Take some time before you sleep every day to calculate what you have that you wouldn’t have if not for God.
Stop worrying because he got your back and you are doing what you have to do. This is what people with remarkable mental toughness do. They draw mental energy by being grateful.
