How do I become mentally strong

People who are mentally strong, have strong habits. They control their thoughts emotions and behaviors in healthy and good ways.

The key is, you need to keep your mind focused in present life that is happening around you. Without having your mind in the right place, you easily lose focus, leading to an endless path of critical judgment, over-thinking and over-analyzing all the time.

To be precise, your intelligence does not play that much role in being mentally strong and successful. Researches have shown that intelligence only accounts for 30% of your achievement that is even less than average.

So, What makes a bigger impact than intelligence? The answer is being totally present in the present moment and to be mentally strong.

Learn from the habits that mentally strong people have.

Let’s see what you can carry out in your life to be mentally strong and tough:

• Always Be Present:

A mentally strong person avoids wasting his/her time and mental energy in past failures or by predicting or fantasizing about the future. The work you do now decides your future. Mentally strong people invest majority of their energy in creating an ideal present. The key is to live in your present as you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow.

Remember the only time we have is, now.

• Don’t Waste Your Time Feeling Sorry for Yourself:
  
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Nowhere To Go But Up

Mentally tough people take responsibility for their actions and consequences. They are able to emerge from the bad experiences. And they become better than the person they were before. They have a good understanding of the fact that life is not fair all the time.

Mentally strong people don’t waste time on feeling sorry or regretting about their mistake. They learn from their mistakes instead of lamenting about it.

• Don’t Compare To Become Mentally Strong:
  
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Enjoy Your Life

Instead of comparing yourself with other person, why not simply compare yourself with your past and see how you have improved your life or what changes you have to make in order to lead a happy life like you used to live.

“Comparison is the death of joy.” –Mark Twain

If you want a proven path to being joyful and not feeling bad about yourself, then never compare yourself with others since “comparison ruins happiness”.

Ambition is great, but mentally tough people don’t compare their day-to-day life with other’s life.

• Learn From Your Mistakes:

A mentally strong person takes responsibility for past mistakes and behavior and is willing to learn from those mistakes. Research shows that the ability to be self-reflective in an exact and productive way is one of the greatest strengths of successful executives and entrepreneurs.

• Keep Your Power to Yourself:

Such people don’t allow any negative emotion or person to over power them mentally. They don’t allow others to control their emotions. They don’t say things like, “My boss is horrible and makes me feel sad.” Rather they understand that they can control their own emotions and they have a choice in how they respond.