{"id":10250,"date":"2018-08-23T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/?p=10250"},"modified":"2021-10-14T21:38:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:38:43","slug":"mentally-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/2018\/08\/23\/mentally-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentally Tough"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mental toughness is a choice and a discipline, not an innate quality bestowed upon the lucky.<br \/>\n&#8211;Travis Bradberry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Would you consider yourself mentally tough?\u00a0 How well do you manage and learn from the errors\/failures that occur? What about when dealing with difficult people? From a job that takes all of your energy, and then some?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it, we all have those kind of days when everything just seems &#8220;off&#8221;; it\u2019s how we manage it that counts.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Travis Bradberry suggests that regardless of the challenges we encounter, we need to remain mentally tough, see new opportunities, and take action.<\/p>\n<p>He also shared that individuals that are truly mentally tough possess the following qualities:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>They\u2019re emotionally intelligent<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They\u2019re confident<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They neutralize toxic people<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They embrace change<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They say no<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They know fear is the No. 1 source of regret<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They embrace failure<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They don\u2019t dwell on mistakes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They won\u2019t let anyone limit their joy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They don\u2019t limit the joy of others<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They exercise<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They get enough sleep<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They limit their caffeine intake<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They don\u2019t wait for an apology to forgive<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They\u2019re relentlessly positive<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We need to realize we can\u2019t control everything (that\u2019s hard for some of us!), but we can focus our energy on those things that we can influence, and take action on.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 15 items listed, which challenge your ability to be mentally tough?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.<br \/>\n&#8211; Floyd Mayweather, Jr<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental toughness is a choice and a discipline, not an innate quality bestowed upon the lucky. &#8211;Travis Bradberry Would you consider yourself mentally tough?\u00a0 How well do you manage and learn from the errors\/failures that occur? What about when dealing with difficult people? From a job that takes all of your energy, and then some? Let\u2019s face it, we all have those kind of days when everything just seems &#8220;off&#8221;;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[63,71,25,34],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interpersonal-skills","tag-behaviors","tag-challenges","tag-leadership-traits","tag-self-reflection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}