Adapted from the book Advanced Selling Strategies by Brian Tracy. Although this book is about selling, it holds great universal wisdom. Check it out:
Mental fitness should be defined as a general attitude of optimism, self-confidence, and good cheer that positively affects everything you do. To achieve it, you must work on it every day until it becomes a part of your character and personality.
1. Self-Talk
The way you talk to yourself determines how you feel more than any other single factor. By controlling your inner dialogue and tone, you can decide how you are going to talk to yourself and thereby control your thoughts, which determine your emotions. Talk to yourself the way you want to be, not the way you are. Tell the truth, in advance!
2. Imaging
Because your outer world mirrors your inner world, positive imaging, or positive visualization is the way you create clear, vivid pictures in your mind that are consistent with the experiences you want to enjoy in your work. Visualize yourself as being confident, positive, determined and completely successful, living in the kind of house you want, looking the way you want to look, etc. Flood your mind with pictures of success and affluence at every opportunity. Refuse to dwell upon on imagine experiences or outcomes you do not want.
3. Mental Food
Since you become what you think about, your attitude, personality, values, and emotions are largely the result of the mental “food” that you are feeding into your mind on a minute-by-minute basis. Just as your body is determined by the food you eat, your mind is determined by the mental food you take in. The way you think and feel will determine your conduct and your behavior, which will in turn dictate your actions and your results. Take in mental protein through books, tapes and videos, rather than mental candy through television shows, magazines, etc.
4. People
The people you habitually associate with, both in person and in your thinking, have a tremendous effect on the person you become. Your choice of “reference group” will, more than any other factor, determine what will happen to you in your life.
5. Training and Development
The more new ideas and information that you take in about how to be more effective, and the more you think about these ideas, the more you will embody them in everything you do. You will become what you think about. By working on yourself, you can learn anything you need to know to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.
6. Health Habits
Life requires enormous amounts of physical, mental, and emotional energy day after day. Because of this, virtually all successful salespeople seem to have higher than average levels of energy and enthusiasm. To be at your best, you must take excellent care of your health. This can be obtained through:
a. Eliminate as many fats from your diet as quickly as possible.
b. Exercise regularly
c. Drink lots of water to flush toxins and impurities
d. Get ample rest
7. Action
The faster you move: the more energy you have, the more positive you feel, the more people you see, and the more experience you get. Therefore faster you learn, the more prospects you talk to and the more of them that will turn into customers, the more enthusiastic you will be, and the more you will feel in control of your life. Fast tempo is essential for success. Develop a sense of urgency.
By moving faster, you will achieve a greater success in a shorter period of time. The success will motivate you and make you more positive and enthusiastic about what you do.
Love,
Danielle Marie Crume
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