Mental Strength:

Condition your Mind, Acheive your Goals

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Introduction

We all have the potential to achieve anything we wish and to become anything we want to be. To fulfil this potential we need to develop our mental strength so that we are able to push past the obstacles we face as we attempt to improve the quality of our lives. All of us can increase our mental strength through understanding and following a relatively straightforward process. This book will explain that process.

As we leave our old lives behind and begin to pursue our dreams, it is an inescapable consequence that we will feel insecure, scared, filled with self-doubt, experience a lack of confidence or even feel completely overwhelmed by the tasks ahead. If not effectively dealt with, these feelings can make us shrink back from realising our true potential. Feeling unable to move beyond these feelings, we retreat to the unfulfilling comfort of the familiar and everyday. However, it doesn't have to be that way!

To realise our potential we need to develop a mind strong enough to overcome all negative and limiting thoughts. Through reading this book you will learn that negative thoughts and feelings, although unpleasant, are completely natural and with the right mindset they can be used as a positive force that will develop your strength, attributes and talents. Through developing a strong mind, the obstacles and difficulties you face will no longer prevent you from living your life as you truly want to. Rather they will become the path to your success!

Let us be clear from the very start that the path to success is never easy. The notion of effortlessly achieving all the things we want from life is certainly an alluring one. However, that's not the way things are. Growth always involves stepping outside your comfort zone, and therefore by definition involves facing up to uncomfortable situations. In the following chapters I will explain how you can develop the mental strength to effectively deal with, and benefit from, the discomfort of growth.

Whilst some people feel trapped within their current comfort zone, those who understand mental strength find themselves imprisoned by nothing. There is nothing they cannot achieve and nothing they cannot become. This book will show you how to develop mental strength and how to use that strength to achieve all your goals.

Having introduced the nature of this book, I would now like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Iain Abernethy and I make my living as both a professional writer and martial arts instructor. It's a great life!

As a child I was not physically gifted and I was awkward and clumsy. I was also the only child in my school who was deemed to need extra lessons for their writing. Many would have said that the chances of my becoming an able martial artist and a professional writer were slim at best. However, I'm now a fifth dan black belt and one of the United Kingdom 's leading exponents of applied karate. I'm also the author of five published books and over fifty magazine articles. I achieved those things by following the process covered in this book; although in the early days not always knowingly. It's not that I'm anything special, it's just that the process works.

As I progressed, the nature of mental strength and the process of developing it became clearer. I better understood not only how to strengthen my mind, but also how to make use of that strength to progress towards my goals. Some time ago I decided to write an article on mental strength for my newsletter. The article subsequently appeared in one of the martial arts magazines I write for and on numerous websites. The response to the article was overwhelming! It's not unusual for me to receive considerable correspondence upon the publication of an article; however the response to that particular article was unprecedented! People were really enthused by it. Around the same time, the prolific author Geoff Thompson had also been encouraging me to write a book of this nature. Geoff has been a huge help to me and his guidance has always been invaluable. So I got to work and wrote the book you are now reading!

I don't write this book as someone who has attained some ultimate level of mental strength; far from it. Rather I write this book as someone who has a good understanding of the process that develops mental strength. It's a method that I have used, and continue to use with much success. Indeed, all the successful people I know make use of this process, even if they don't realise it or describe it as presented here. Although there are many elements to developing mental strength, overall it's a fairly straightforward process that anyone can follow. We can all become as mentally strong as we choose to be.

Before we leave the introduction, I'd like to emphasise that the process of developing mental strength first needs to be understood and then followed up with action. Reading this book is not enough; it's just a first step. You need to understand the process and then act in accordance with it. Through understanding and action you will develop a strong mind. With a strong mind, you will be able to achieve your goals and live your ideal life.

With the introduction over, you've now taken the first step of the first step. Congratulations, you're on your way! Let's now move on to the first chapter and discuss the nature of mental strength.

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