North Star Mental Fitness Blog

15 TOOLS FOR SUCCESS IN 2010

SUCCESS = TAKING GOOD CARE OF YOU

If you take good care of you in 2010, you will be successful!  The following 15 tools will help you be successful in any situation in 2010.  These 15 tools provide the resources to guide you through 2010.

 

THE 15 MENTAL FITNESS TOOLS FOR SUCCESS IN 2010

Take Care of Your Mind

Take care of your mind was the title of a post at Health and Beauty.  The writer made the point that health involves both physically and mentally feeling well.  Do you agree that health involves mentally feeling well?

The writer emphasized the point of setting aside time for mental health and mental fitness.  I really like the following statements:

"By practicing mind and body fitness, you can nurture your mind, body and spirit in a positive and enjoyable way.

Life is full of change, risks and challenges. Good mental or emotional health helps us find our balance and stay in control, even during turbulent times. But how do we know if we are mentally healthy enough to deal with life’s ups and downs?"

The message from Health and Beauty:

Get Mentally Fit! 

Take Control of Your Health.  Take Care of Your Mind

Practice Mind + Body Fitness

At NortStarMentalFitnessBlog we believe everyone can improve their mental fitness.  We can all improve our mental fitness by concentrating and repeating mental exercises.

If Your Health Is Important for You,
The Time Has Come for You to Add Mental Fitness to Your Life!

Just ask us how?

Remember, You Live within the Body Created by Your Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

The Army Validates Mental Fitness

Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum, Director of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness confirmed that the Army has realized the importance of mental fitness.  At www.Army.Mil C. Todd Lopez quoted Gen. Cornum frequently in his article "Soldiers learn to impart mental toughness on others".

Brig. General Cornum compared physical and mental fitness.  "Mental fitness is like physical fitness: lifelong and ongoing".

I have emphasized that with mental fitness training people can be stronger than their problems.  Brig. Gen. Cornum emphasized the purpose of mental fitness training by saying "resiliency, or mental toughness, is part of the Army's larger "Comprehensive Soldier Fitness" program, that aims to ensure Soldiers are as mentally tough as they are physically tough".

Mental Fitness is the result of mental fitness training.  Brig. Gen. Cornum was quoted as saying regarding mental fitness "It is not something that you can do once, any more than you can get physically fit by one trip to the gym. This is not an individual single event. It is a way of looking at your psychological health as important as your physical health." 

What is mental fitness?  It is learning different thinking skills according to Brig. Gen. Cornum.  Mental fitness training makes people stronger and fit by learning powerful thoughts and how to think adaptively and quickly.  For example, in the North Star Mental Fitness Program There are 15 thinking skills that can be learned, applied to solve any problem or make a person mentally stronger and fit. 

Mental fitness training is for the average citizen as well as for the military.  The average citizen as well as military personnel must avoid self-defeating behavior and engage in successful behaviors in difficult circumstances.  Mental fitness training and resiliency training helps people cope with everyday problems and not allow problems to overwhelm us.

"Cornum said resiliency is a way of thinking that allows Soldiers not to fall into self-defeating traps. It takes a developed and resilient mind, she said, to put money problems, relationship issues, health issues, or tragedy on the battlefield into perspective, so a Soldier can continue with the mission and with life.

"Resilience is a way of thinking -- you apply optimistic thinking to a problem," she said. "It is really a difference between, for instance, when you invite somebody for a date and they say no, resilient people think 'their loss -- I'll do better next time.' What they don't think is 'nobody will ever like me. I'm worthless.' That's really what it is. It teaches you to remember that problems are temporary, that they are local." 

Mental fitness has been validated by the Army.  Mental fitness training can help you become stronger than your problems and not allow your problems to deter you from enjoying your life.  I believe that people need mental fitness training to cope with rough economic times as well as the emotionally painful problems in everyday living.

Is it time for you to invest and mental fitness training?

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

24 Keys for Overcoming Difficult Times

Having the right mindset is extremely important for overcoming difficult times.  When difficult times occur, we can feel devastated, betrayed, angry, depressed, confused and overwhelmed.  These are normal feelings and reactions to difficult times.  Oftentimes, these understandable emotions interfere and can actually prevent us from successfully overcoming difficult times.  We must make certain that are painful emotions don't neutralize our ability to set successful goals.

Learning to think for success and overcome painful emotions is necessary for overcoming difficult times.  In this post I would like to have you consider 24 keys for overcoming difficult times.

The first nine keys were written by Alvin Soon and were entitled 9 Keys For Overcoming Difficult Times.  The next 15 keys were written by me and are the major systematic, thought processes for success in my North Star Mental Fitness Program.

I urge you to read both of these posts by clicking on the above links.  If you find one or two ideas that can motivation for overcoming difficult times, your time to check out these links will be well worthwhile.

If you like more information regarding The North Star Mental Fitness Program or coaching for overcoming adversity, please e-mail me at drhal@northstarmentalfitnessblog.com.

 

Having the right mindset is extremely important for overcoming difficult times.  When difficult times occur, we can feel devastated, betrayed, angry, depressed, confused and overwhelmed.  These are normal feelings and reactions to difficult times.  Oftentimes, these understandable emotions interfere and can actually prevent us from successfully overcoming difficult times.  We must make certain that are painful emotions don't neutralize our ability to set successful goals.

Learning to think for success and overcome painful emotions is necessary for overcoming difficult times.  In this post I would like to have you consider 24 keys for overcoming difficult times.

The first nine keys were written by Alvin Soon and were entitled 9 Keys For Overcoming Difficult Times.  The next 15 keys were written by me and are the major systematic, thought processes for success in my North Star Mental Fitness Program.

I urge you to read both of these posts by clicking on the above links.  If you find one or two ideas that can motivation for overcoming difficult times, your time to check out these links will be well worthwhile.

If you like more information regarding The North Star Mental Fitness Program or coaching for overcoming adversity, please e-mail me at drhal@northstarmentalfitnessblog.com.

 

Learning to think for success and overcome painful emotions is necessary for overcoming difficult times.  In this post I would like to have you consider 24 keys for overcoming difficult times.

The first nine keys were written by Alvin Soon and were entitled 9 Keys For Overcoming Difficult Times.  The next 15 keys were written by me and are the major systematic, thought processes for success in my North Star Mental Fitness Program.

I urge you to read both of these posts by clicking on the above links.  If you find one or two ideas that can motivation for overcoming difficult times, your time to check out these links will be well worthwhile.

If you like more information regarding The North Star Mental Fitness Program or coaching for overcoming adversity, please e-mail me at drhal@northstarmentalfitnessblog.com.

“ What Is the Bridge Over Troubled Economical Times?

Remember Simon and Garfunkel's famous song Bridge over Troubled Waters!

Most of us are now looking for a bridge over our bad economic times.  We look outside of ourselves for the magical bridge or the guru to lead us to the promised land.  Sometimes we look in the wrong places.  Today , let us look inside of ourselves to find the bridge over depressing economic times and are pressing mood resulting from the economy.

 Bad economical times has spread throughout our country and the world.  Bad economical times will be shared by all of us, unfortunately.

The question is:  How will the bad economical times effect you? 

For many people who do not practice the power of thinking and good mental fitness, the depressing economy will depress their psyche and mood.  There is no doubt that the economy is depressing.  Therefore, shouldn't they be depressed?

Even though the economy is depressing, we do not have to be depressed.  We do not need to allow external circumstances and problems depress us!

When people become depressed over depressing occurrences in their life like the depressing economy, unconsciously they are using "because of" thinking.  "Because of thinking" is logical and shows no regard for our mental state.  "Because of thinking" is automatic.  Obviously for many people, they will be depressed because of the depressing economy.  They may never even question why they have to be depressed, when the economy falls apart.

When our economic times are bad, the power of good mental fitness becomes strikingly clear.  A person with good mental fitness realizes they have freedom of choice even in bad circumstances.  "In spite of" thinking thinking can replace "because of" thinking.

When we think "in spite of" the bad economy, we can take control our lives, our mood and even our economics.  For example, we can think "in spite of" the bad economy, we are happy, successful, wealthy, etc. 

"In spite of" the bad economy, we can focus on the what we are grateful for rather than what we have lost. 

"In spite of" the bad economy, we can focus on finding opportunities rather than dwelling on the problems in economic areas of our lives.

"In spite of" thinking can turn our problems into successes and can become the bridge over troubled waters in our lives!