Your mind can be your worst enemy or your biggest asset—depending on how you nurture it. 

Setbacks and failures are a part of life, but your actual strength and mental resilience lie in how quickly you bounce back from these. 

With that being said, our resilience is also tested when circumstances around us change unexpectedly. Of course, these challenges can occur to anyone. However, they give you the opportunity to rise above the problem and return even stronger than you were before.

Are you bristling while reading this? If so, that's fine! No one—especially men— like to think of themselves as weak physically or mentally. And yet, whether we accept it or not, we all are weak - be it physically or mentally. Just like our bodies, our brain is also prone to weakness.

Though being "mentally weak" is not an insult, it doesn't imply that you are feeble. It actually points to the fact that you have to change your mindset, seek help, and come out as a mentally strong person. As mental weakness can affect your daily life, even the simplest chores, so you should be more attentive to it. 

With that in mind, let's look at mental weakness symptoms and how we can change your life by helping you overcome them.

Symptoms of Mental Weakness

We have listed down some symptoms of mental weakness. If any of those symptoms define you, you should seek help.

• You try your best to act mentally tough, but it doesn't feel like it's helping you or getting anywhere.
• If you fail at your job and start thinking that you "don't have what it takes…." Especially if you know that you can perform at a higher level of the job than it.
• You are easily irritated, frustrated, and angry.
• You are constantly tired and drained.
• You think something is missing from your life but can't put the finger on it.
• You are an entrepreneur, but you think you are getting nowhere despite all the hard work and struggles.
• You are in sales or some other profession where you have to deal with clients, and you get overwhelmed by the feeling of convincing them.
• You are an athlete who's tired of kicking it off in practice and struggling to perform up to your potential when the actual game starts.
• You often feel jealous or threatened by other people's success.
• You don't have the grit to stand up if someone is doing something wrong, whether it's your coach, client, or manager.

If you have one of the mentioned symptoms, don't mask it with being "tough" or "resilient"; instead, give us a call.

What Is Mental Strength?

Being mentally strong is a powerful aspect of your personality. It describes how you think, your mindset, and your mental responses when certain things happen around you.

Mental strength is quite important because it firmly controls behaviors and emotions. In other words, how you act and how you feel are influenced by mental strength.

In general, mental strength is a measure of how resilient you are. It implies;

1. The capability to manage negative emotions healthily.
2. Understanding your feelings.
3. Learning when to engage with your feelings and when to take a step back from them.

Three essential parts of mental strength are;

Thinking

Mental strength allows you to think realistically. It means controlling irrational thoughts and replacing them with practical inner dialogues. Being mentally strong means treating yourself with kindness — whenever you feel tempted to be critical of yourself, mental strength will make you respond with compassion.

Emotions

Mental strength doesn't mean suppressing your feelings or denying your emotions. Instead, it allows you to acknowledge every emotion, even if it is uncomfortable. Being mentally tough will help you calm yourself down before getting overwhelmed by the feelings.

Productivity

Mental strength is all about being productive and taking the right action. It means working things out even when you are exhausted. In addition, it also means engaging yourself in self-care and ensuring that your behaviors are beneficial.

Reasons to Be Mentally Strong

Here are a few reasons why you need to be mentally strong:

Conquering Self-Doubt

Whether your ambition is to double your revenue or your goal is to run and win a marathon, you'll probably experience self-doubt. Questioning your purpose—your skills to achieve it—it's a regular part of the victory process.

However, when you are mentally strong, you'll quickly reframe the negative self-talk with compassion so you can work towards your goal with more confidence.

Staying Motivated

It's easy to work on your goals when you feel motivated, but motivation varies. Mental strength will help you stay motivated even when you feel like doing nothing. Likewise, you'll be able to discover your power when you are discouraged, tired, and unambitious.

Tuning Out Unhelpful Advice

If you are mentally weak, you try to please people. It means other people's opinions easily drown out your voice and affect you. However, mental strength helps you stop paying attention to the unhelpful criticism and bad advice from negative people around you.

Being mentally strong will keep you focused and stay true to your values. It also helps you in making decisions regardless of the feedback.

Valuable Lessons from the Mistakes

Hiding your mistakes or blaming others for them increases the chances that you will make those same blunders again. Anybody can make mistakes, and mental strength allows you to accept responsibility for your errors and take valuable lessons from them. It will help you grow closer to your goals.

Courage to Face Fears

Stepping outside your comfort zone is quite challenging, but facing your fears makes you stronger. Mental strength helps you in gaining confidence and feeling strong to tolerate discomfort. As a result, you'll face more comfortable moving forward, despite all the fears.

Bouncing Back From Failures

While failure causes people to give up, mentally strong people consider it a learning opportunity. With mental strength, people have a sense of self-worth which allows them to tolerate failures without giving up. In addition, being mentally strong will enable you to see failures as a step toward success.

Controlling Your Emotions

The road to success or life is an emotional roller coaster filled with highs and lows. Suppose you are mentally weak or lack the skills to regulate these emotions. In that case, you'll not be able to cope with difficult situations and take risks.

Mental strength will allow you to control your emotions, so they don't cloud your judgement as you make a decision.

For a peaceful life filled with perseverance, you need to train your mental strength. And performance coaching can help you with that.

How Performance Coaching Helps to be Mentally Strong?

Performance coaching is a series of guided conversations with a certified coach that enable the "coachee" to discover personal solutions and implement them in challenging areas and issues.

Performance coaching allows you to unlock your potential performance rather than judging and criticizing your current routine. Performance coaching is solely based on a belief that anyone can do an excellent job if they want. 

It is a technique to remove the barriers preventing individuals from taking the required actions to thrive professionally and personally.

How Does The Warrior Mind Coach Work?

I am Gregg Swanson, and I founded Warrior Mind Coach in 2008; since then, I have been helping top achievers reach higher success levels. I have dealt with higher performers clients. They have already terrific levels of success in their careers. Still, they had the potential to do more, and I have helped them discover that.

When to Contact Us?

You are confident, powerful, and successful in your career, driven to make a contribution and difference. Yet, even being at the highest level of your success feels like it lacks something. You can achieve more, but you can't figure out what holds you back. In short, you have reached the level of resistance.

If you believe that you can do more, have a Breakthrough Session with us, and let's work on it. Warrior Mind Coach specifically works with people who are athletes, entrepreneurs, and sale professional.

For instance, if you are an athlete who wants to learn about top athletes' grit and mindset secret to performing at an elite level like them. Let us help you discover them and reach the next level in your performance. 

Plus, if you are a parent or coach who's watching the star player fall short of their true potential because of a lack of mental toughness. We have a step-by-step program to help them master the mental game and ace their performance.

In addition to that, you can also contact Warrior Mind Coach for:

Life Planning

While some people prefer to live without a life plan, there is much evidence and research that shows that having a clear life plan and set of goals will help you succeed in the long term. So contact us and plan your life goals with us.

Navigating Career Change

A career change could be anything—from completely turning the career in an opposite direction to being promoted from manager to leader. These changes can be overwhelming, and we will help you navigate these changes successfully.

Making Fundamental Behavioral Changes

If you think you have certain habits acting as a resistance between you and your goals, we can help you change them. It also involves athletes breaking bad habits and relearning skills to perform better.

Handling Major Failures

Coaching can help people recover from major failures and professional and personal setbacks. Mainly, it helps with work-life imbalances, stress, or burnout.

Why Us? 

I am a professional life coach who loves connecting with people. I have gone through similar experiences and emotions, which helps me relate to what you are going through. Therefore, I can help and coach you to achieve the goals you desire and lead a life with perseverance.

I have spent the initial years fighting with onerous obstacles that have deeply scarred me. I have dealt with a lack of confidence and a plethora of insecurities that made it impossible to love my true self.

With a focus on my well-being, eventually, I started to make significant changes in my life. With one step at a time approach, I discovered my potential and started fighting my weaknesses.

I have been through it all. Therefore, I use my personal experience to help you realize your real strength and solve underlying mental weakness issues.

How Will Your Life Look Like Once You Develop Mental Strength?

Once you have walked through a journey of mental strength with us, you will notice the following changes in your life:

Significant Life Satisfaction 

Being mentally strong will help you accept yourself while still striving for improvement. It allows you to enjoy everything to its fullest and turn difficulties into growth opportunities. 

As your mental strength increases, your confidence also increases. You'll feel surer about every decision you make or every step you take. You'll have a clear perspective of your values and will ensure that your priorities and beliefs are always in line.

Improved Performance

Improved mental stability and strength is the primary aspect of delivering your best performance at your work. Whether you are in sales, an entrepreneur, or an athlete, robust mental strength will help you reach your highest potential.

Mental strength allows you to manage your thoughts, control your emotions (not suppress them, though), and behave productively. In addition, it means that you can focus your energy on the things that matter the most.

Enhanced Resilience

You can't control everything in your life. Many things are out of your control and can happen anytime unexpectedly. However, you can control how you respond to such things. You can rise above every challenge life throws at your face when you are strong.

Mental strength is not for hard times only, but it's crucial in managing daily doses of stress as well. As you get mentally stronger, you gain more confidence in dealing with problems.

Wrapping Up

There will always be challenges, difficulties, and obstacles threatening your road to success. However, you develop intense grit and resilience to face these inevitable issues if you build mental strength. Mental toughness helps you overcome these setbacks with confidence. 

Let us be your coach and guide you on the road to success!