How to Master Mental Toughness

Okay, so here’s the exercise. Let’s say that there’s a tightrope on the ground right now, and I have to walk across it. It’s laying on the ground so no problem, I’ll walk backwards. Good, pretty easy. I’m in heels, no problem. I’ll walk forward. Now would you walk along this tightrope on the ground? Pretty easy, right?

Okay, now let’s up the stakes. Let’s say that the tightrope is between the two buildings above us. Would you venture across that tightrope? Didn’t think so. All right boss, let’s talk about mental toughness.

I can speak from experience on this.

As you grow in any aspect of your life, you need to make sure that you’re mentally strong, mentally tough, and able to handle whatever is coming your way. Now you might be thinking about mental toughness as being concrete and rock solid, but really what it means to me is being adaptable, being able to flow with whatever’s going on around you and, more importantly, being able to stay focused and staying in your own lane. Are you focusing?

Because with the more success you have, the more you grow in any aspect of your life, there’s more responsibility, there’s more pressure, and there’s just more stuff that you have to deal with.

So the better your focus is, the better off you’re going to be. If you’ve ever struggled with staying focused or you find yourself really struggling with focusing lately, let me know in the comments below.

So I’m going to share a three-minutes exercise with you that you can do on a daily basis, just three minutes, three minutes that is going to help you build up your mental strength, your mental toughness, and more importantly, help you stay calm and focused.

This has been tested and proven on NHL players, NFL players, pro- golfers, billionaires, top CEOs, and beyond. So we’re going to dive into that in just a moment. I’ll walk you through the exercise so you can start doing it in your day-to- day life, because it’s made such a huge difference in mine and my focus and my ability to just go with the flow in my business.

But first, I want you to understand how your mind is operating on a daily basis and some of the things that I’ve learned to help me find that more sense of calm and peace in my day-to-day.

Last year, I had the chance to see Tony Robbins speak, and something that fascinated me about what he does on a daily basis is that he plunges into a cold pool every single morning.

When he was talking about it, what struck me is that he doesn’t do it because he enjoys it, nobody would enjoy that. He does it to show his brain who’s boss.

Because if he let his brain run the show, there’s no way in hell he’s getting into a cold pool every day. So he does it to really put himself back in the power seat, and that’s what I want you to understand is that you are not your mind.

You are not your brain. You are not your thoughts. It’s important to understand that as soon as you become aware of your thoughts, and the way that you’re thinking, that’s when you can actually start changing them and taking back the control.

The second thing to remember is that you need to detach from the outcome.

The reason that that tightrope example is so intimidating, is because you go from thinking about taking one step and one foot in front of the other on a flat surface and just moving towards your destination at a slow pace. That’s reasonable because you’re not a hundred feet in the air.