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10 Mental Toughness Tips to Help You Make Today a Great Day
What is your state of mind today? Positive? Neutral? Negative? Whatever your state of mind, it will determine how great or otherwise your day is. However, unless your lottery ticket comes in, the only way your day can be a great one is by taking it by the scruff of...
How to Stay Mentally Tough in the Face of Stress and Anxiety
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners One of the key definitions of the personality trait mental toughness as described by the rock stars of mental toughness, Professor Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk, involves stress. They define mental toughness as “the...
When Going For It Is Not The Right Choice
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners As a mental toughness practitioner, I’m always talking about the importance of going beyond your comfort zone and becoming comfortable in being uncomfortable. Invariably that means overriding your body’s inbuilt “risk...
Stress Interview: Did They Go Too Far?
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners Reading the transcript of this recent stress interview between an experienced HR professional and a potential graduate trainee in Hong Kong reinforced that there IS a better way of testing a candidate’s ability to perform...
Adopting A No Exception Routine Helps You Build Your Tough Mind
A characteristic of being mentally tough is that you spot and seize opportunities to make things happen. Your openness and flexibility to seeing and adopting new ideas means that you naturally find better ways quicker and faster. This is a feature of the Challenge C...
Failure is an Option and a Game Changing Mindset
In a recent post, I wrote about the ‘Benefits of Failure’ in which the author JK Rowling explained the practical advantage of failing. She believes that failure is a part of success, not opposite to success. In this post Donald Latumahina, author of the outstanding...