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When Saying NO Is The Mentally Tough Thing To Do
One of the qualities of mental toughness is being able to keep on going when times are tough, pushing through new mental and physical barriers to achieve one’s goals. This resolve and perseverance often uses all 4 C’s of mental toughness at once, namely Control,...
Doug Strycharczyk provides an overview of how the Mental Toughness model can be applied in the youth sector
What is Mental Toughness? Personality can be defined as an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Key to this is Mental Toughness which explains why individuals behave the way they do. In other words, it is the thinking element of...
Engineering Efficiency in Human Development
What do we mean by this and why do we bother? In Engineering, a design or process is efficient if it maximizes the amount of work done, while minimizing the resources used (raw materials, time, labour, fuel, etc). An efficient design should do everything it is...
Build Mental Toughness By Being Cheerful
I enjoy reading articles about how to build mental toughness in a specific context that also have a broader application. Here the reason to be cheerful is that you’re living in Colorado and hang out at the Cross Fit gym in E.78th Avenue in Thornton. Being a combi...
Improving Wellbeing with a Walk
If you have started the day a little flat, here’s a routine to use to feel happier and lead to improving wellbeing. It’s “wellbeing on the run” although its all about walking. All you need is half an hour. An hour is better but half an hour is all you need to make a...
Marathon Mindset and Mental Toughness
IF YOU WANT TO GO THE DISTANCE, YOU HAVE TO RISK THE DARKNESS Let’s say this up front and right away, I’m not a marathon runner but the above quote and subsequent article by Jonathan Beverly, who IS a marathon runner, captured my attention, imagination and interest in...