Mental Toughness Video Blog From Steve Siebold
y interview with self-made millionaire James Schwartz was informative and eye opening. In this clip, James draws from his extensive military career and how it relates to building a business. While many entrepreneurs see chaos in business as a problem, James has a different point of view that you’re unlikely to forget. #personaldevelopment #howrichpeoplethink
created my first vision board in 1977, when I was 12 years old. I didn’t call it a vision board, I just scotch taped pictures of everything I ever wanted all over my room. To me, it made sense for me to surround myself with everything I wanted to be, do and have. My dad, who was born in 1926 and experienced the Great Depression as a child, was very pragmatic. He didn’t share my enthusiasm for the vision boards. He thought it was silly, until the pictures started appearing in real life. In this clip. If you have someone important
As a an author/speaker in the personal development space for 30+ years, it frustrates me to see industry experts attempting to make the principles of success, complicated. They are not. As a matter of fact, most personal development books, including all 12 of mine, are written at an 8th grade level. This is not an accident, it’s because thats the level at which the average person reads. It’s also because personal development is uncomplicated. In this clip, I explain. #personaldevelopment
How does Santa Claus get to all of those houses in one night? As a child, did that question ever cross your mind? Most likely, it did. This is an example of our early attempts to employ critical thinking in our lives. As we mature and become more cognitively proficient, we’re easily able to answer questions of this nature. The problem is sometimes we don’t like the answers, so we purposely avoid the proof, data and evidence that comprise the building blocks of critical thinking. In this clip, I explore why this occurs. #personaldevelopment #criticalthinking
Any philosopher, of which I clearly am not, will tell you that there are thousands of levels of conscious awareness. Fair enough, but as it relates to performance, we look at the top 5. Squarely in the middle rests the average person operating under middle-class consciousness. Once you understand this limited level of thinking, it’s easy to understand why the masses struggle to succeed. As judgmental as it sounds, there’s substantial data that support it. #personaldevelopment
The road to becoming a successful, seasoned entrepreneur will humble even the toughest amongst us. This journey is fraught with rejection, criticism and failure, and if it’s not something you’re compelled to do, I would avoid it. That said, if you decide to engage in this unique method of fortune building, you must develop emotional immunity. In this clip, I explain. #personaldevelopment
Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. When employees decide to make the leap to being their own boss, they quickly find themselves in a psychological/emotional war zone where they’re being rejected and criticized 95% of the time. Only a small percentage of people are emotionally equipped to survive in this environment. In this clip, I explain how the survivors get so mentally tough. #personaldevelopment
What does one need to eliminate from his or her life in order to perform at the peak of their potential? What clears the mind of distractions and creates mental clarity? This single mind virus holds most people back, and in this post, I reveal and discuss. #personaldevelopment
Money is lightening rod subject, especially in success-obsessed America. And with the advent of social media, money seems to take on multiple meanings it objectively does not have. This causes confusion, especially for young people just starting out in the world, attempting to figure things out. Flashy homes, expensive cars, shiny jewelry, exotic vacations and other trappings of excessive spending make it appear as though these people are wealthy, when in many cases they are “all hat and no cattle.” It’s easy to fall into the trap of material excess, but in order to master the money game, you must avoid
Mental toughness is made up of a series of skills, not the least of which is the ability to persist in the midst of failure, over and again. This skill alone disqualifies most people from ever attaining uncommon success. In this clip from the Mental Toughness Podcast, I discuss the skill of sustained effort, which may be more responsible for building more empires than anything else. #personaldevelopment #mentaltoughness