What is your “Mental Toughness” Quotient? Have you ever thought about that? Should it matter when running a business? ABSOLUTELY! There are many ways to test your mental toughness. I think it is best to test it outside your work, and explore it in other areas.
For example, if you’re following my blog, I shared with you recently that my husband and I decided to do a strict six week cleanse. This is a perfect example of Mental Toughness and testing it. It takes a huge mental mindset to commit to eating in a way you typically don’t!
So today is the third day, and I’m definitely detoxing! Caffeine is what I miss the most, and I really don’t drink much of it every day, just my morning cup of coffee, so I really want back. But I committed to the six weeks. The discipline of doing what I committed to doing, even when I DON’T want to do it is coming up for me. I even went into the tea cupboard this morning and pulled a bag of green tea. I looked at it, I debated, I know it has caffeine in it, I argued that it’s not near as much is coffee, and then I put it back and got some herbal tea. Mental Toughness.
That’s what I talk about in my book The Influence Factor and really knowing your true self. I could have had the cup of caffeinated tea. My husband is already gone to work, nobody would have known but me. (The lies we tell ourselves, remember that from the book!) But it was okay it is a small amount there are no calories in it blah blah blah!
No caffeine, that is the agreement I made with myself. For six weeks. Mental Toughness.
My husband is missing salt. Now again, I would argue that we probably use less salt in food than many people do. We cook all our own food–> we don’t buy processed prepackaged food so just salt we add anyway. And last nights dinner looked beautiful as you can see from the picture! And as he said if it had some salt it would’ve been amazing! It would’ve been easy to get saltshaker just sprinkle a little bit on, but we didn’t.
See doing something like this is powerful because if you can have the mental toughness and discipline to gets through something like this. To truly get through it–> no lies, no secrets. When you make it happen you’re showing yourself the ability to achieve something that isn’t necessarily easy. And guess what? Running a business isn’t easy! Being true to yourself and the promises you make to yourself and what you want to achieve isn’t easy! I think running a business takes a huge amount of mental toughness.
What could you do to achieve greater mental toughness? To challenge your mental toughness quotient?
