Mental Toughness is about thinking thoughts that serve your best interests and eliminating thoughts that don’t. Compartmentalization is the ability to isolate your thinking and direct your mental energy toward one problem at a time. I love America, and I’ve always been a great fan of our political system, but as the world gets more complex and problems become more sophisticated, we need to upgrade our thinking and adjust how we approach foreign and domestic issues. American politicians have been involved in sex scandals since this country’s inception, and it’s never going away. The list is endless, but some of the most recent violators to be burned at the political/sexual stake are President Bill Clinton, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Presidential hopeful and former Senator John Edwards, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, and the most recent, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. If I started back with George Washington this post would be 20 pages long! (Don’t forget President John F. Kennedy) My point: It’s time to grow up, America. Politicians are elected to govern, make laws, create and enforce public policy and lead the country. I’m not condoning their private behavior nor do care what they do off the clock. Governor Mark Sanford has to anwer to his wife and family, and I have a feeling he’ll have his hands full doing that. Meanwhile, we’re in the middle of TWO WARS and the WORST economy since the great depression. If you want to hold politicians to a higher standard, lets focus the pressure on solving the challenges we’re facing as a nation, and let’s leave the moral issues to the families. Listen to this post and see if you agree. I’ll look forward to your comments. Steve Siebold ( 5:30)
Mental Toughness Secret of Entrepreneurs: Systematic Desensitization
June 13th, 2009Great salespeople and entrepreneurs have used this little known psychological secret for years. It can make or break you as salesperson or entrepreneur. I’ve spoken about this phenomena onstage all over the world for 13 years, and only a small percentage of audience members have ever heard of it. If you’re struggling in business due to the fear of rejection, this post has the power to change your life. Am I exaggerating? Listen and decide for yourself. I’ll look forward to your comments. Steve Siebold, CSP (6:35)
Coaching Mental Toughness
May 29th, 2009When you’re coaching mental toughness, one of the most helpful things you can have in front of you is a list of key beliefs of world class performers. These winning beliefs are common among big thinkers and the ultra successful. As a coach, they serve as powerful discussion points. Ask the people you’re coaching what they think about these beliefs and you’ll begin to build a blueprint of their mental makeup. In mental toughness training we teach that beliefs dictate behaviors; so once you know what your people believe you’ll understand why they do what they do. After a while, you’ll be able to predict their every move with astounding accuracy. It’s a little scary, but the truth is human beings are predictable by nature. Your job as coach is to uncover their belief system, contrast what they believe with what world class performers believe, and guide them along the path of upgrading their limiting beliefs while reinforcing their empowering beliefs. According to our research with world class performers, here are Top 10 Beliefs of the great ones:
1. I cannot fail, I can only learn and grow. ( a global belief broken down by the great Larry Wilson, www.greatgameoflife.com)
2. Everything happens for a reason
3. All you can do is all you can do
4. Every experience makes me stronger
5. Happiness is a choice
6. Happiness is a state of mind
7. People are inherently good
8. The world is a beautiful place
9. Almost anything is possible
10. Success is a choice
Listen to this post as I explain how to coach each world class belief. This is the first of several posts I promised the audience when I spoke at the World Financial Convention in March in Los Angeles. Thanks for your patience, guys! (you were starting to think I forgot about you! 
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Siebold’s TV Interview on Die Fat Book
May 19th, 2009I was interviewed on South Florida LIVE last week, and I received several emails after the show saying I was too tough. One person even said I was ‘mean’. This is NOT an uncommon response to the mental toughness message. I’ve been called every name in the book since I started delivering speeches about mental toughness back in 1996. Jack Nicholson said it best to Tom Cruise: “You can’t handle the truth!” The middle class mentality would rather die fat than grow up and solve a tough, (but simple) problem like obesity. That’s all I was saying in this interview, and it’s why I wrote the book, Die Fat or Get Tough.
(www.diefatbook.com) Middle class thinking is the problem and mentaltoughness is the answer! You want to feel great? Get fit. You want to look even better? Get fit. You want to make more money, have better sex, enhance your self esteem, be more productive, and be happier? GET FIT! But first you have to get mentally tough. World class thinking won’t make you thin and healthy, but that’s where it all begins. Watch this 3 minute interview and judge for yourself. Was I on track or did I sound like a jerk? You decide. I’ll look forward to hearing your comments. Steve Siebold (3 minutes)
Are you suffering from conscious or unconscious delusion?
May 10th, 2009Mental toughness is about taking mental and emotion control of your life, and it begins with self discovery. The enemy of world class success is self delusion. For a vast array of reasons, human beings are pre-disposed to delusional thinking. This is NOT for YOU! The more aware you are of your habitual thoughts the easier it is to capitalize on your empowering habits and eliminate the habits holding you back. This post poses a critical thinking question no one has probably ever asked you. This is the stuff we all should have learned in school, because knowing how you think is your ticket to the big time. (whatever that means for you)
While the middle class is forever focused on fixing their weaknesses, the world class focuses on building their strengths.
What are your strengths and weaknesses? Is your answer based on objective reality or self delusion? Listen to this post and see what you think. As always, I look forward to your comments. Steve Siebold ( 7:00 )
Oprah is DEAD Wrong
May 3rd, 2009Oprah Winfrey, who has struggled with her weight for many years, doled out the worst piece of advice last week I’ve ever heard her give: She told Kirsty Alley, the now obese, former Jenny Craig spokes model/actress that she shouldn’t “set herself up” for failure by setting a date for her weight loss. I’ve never been so disappointed in a role model, and later it made me really angry. I LOVE Oprah. Everyone loves Oprah. But it made me angry that the richest woman in the world, and more importantly, the most influential woman in the world, would be so thoughtlessly irresponsible by offering advice in an area she’s failed at for years. You won’t hear this in the mainstream media because everyone’s afraid to tell Oprah the truth. It’s sad for her, but what about the 100 million impressionable young women she just told NOT to set themsleves up for failure by setting a date when they will be thin and healthy?
My new book, which is currently only available in ebook format (softcover will be out in July) tells the TRUTH about the psychological delusion fat people fall into that keeps them fat. You can read 5 chapters for FREE at www.diefatbook.com
After you read them, I’d love to hear your comments about this post. Steve Siebold (7:48)
Siebold Success Network kicks of Thursday, April 30th at 9pm Eastern
April 29th, 2009If you’re interested in profiting from promoting the mental toughness message and other world class personal development programs, please join us Thursday evening, April 30th, at 9pm eastern time. This post will explain the details. You can register for FREE at www.sieboldsuccessnetwork.com Steve Siebold, CSP
Learning to Laugh at Fear in Crazy Times
April 15th, 2009One of the greatest mental toughness secrets of the world class is laughing in the face of fear and uncertainty. If you’ve ever lost everything you own, you know it’s not funny. But the way you represent any event in your mind will determine how your mind and body responds to it. I can remember waking up in the middle of the night, my heart pounding out of my chest terrified on how I would pay the rent after losing everything I had. What I learned was the one thing no one can take from you is the way you think. I decided to take a tip from the great ones I had interviewed over the years and laugh at my lot in life. I decided to tell myself I was best under pressure and I would be a millionaire again in 5 years. My midnight worry turned into working until midnight, and things started turning around. 5 years later I was earning 7-figures again. What I learned was no matter how bad it gets, if you learn to lighten up and laugh at yourself and the craziness of life, you’ll be healthier, happier, and in the right mindset to win again. Listen to this post for more ideas in this area and laugh all the way to the bank! You can do it! Steve Siebold (6:30)
Why Bill Maher is important for America
April 12th, 2009Last night my wife and I went to see Bill Maher, the host of Real Time with Bill Maher, and the former host of Politically Incorrect, in Ft. Lauderdale. While I didn’t agree with many of Maher’s views on politics, sex, and religion, I was impressed with his insights and level of critical thinking. This guy is smart, irreverent, and unafraid to say what he thinks. Though this Harvard educated comic delivers his points of view through a thin veil of humor, it’s plainly obvious to any audience that he believes everything he says. Thats why I think Bill Maher, and people like him who are bold enough to express what many people are thinking, are important to America. The past is gone, and many of the beliefs we’ve clung to like a drowning man grasping to a life perserver, are archiac, outdated, and in desparate need of deeper reflection through a more sophisticated set of filters with greater criteria. Maher suggested last night that it’s time to grow up, and I agree with that. Many of the beliefs we were brainwashed with as children (however innocently) need to be upgraded or discarded. Please listen to this post and see what you think. I’ll look forward to your comments. Steve Siebold (5:30)
Tennis Legend Rod Laver’s Advice to Steve Siebold
April 7th, 2009I was speaking down in Melbourne, Australia recently at a hotel next to Rod Laver Arena, home of the Australian Open Tennis Championships. I had the rare opportunity to trade shots with Mr. Laver back in 1977, and he gave me a piece of advice I’ve never forgotten. Rod Laver is considered one of the best tennis players that ever lived, and he’s regarded as a national treasure in his native Australia. In between speeches, my wife Dawn and I took a tour of Rod Laver Arena and filmed this short video to share Rod Laver’s wisdom with you.
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