3 Ways to Become Mentally Stronger

Here are three signs that you're becoming mentally stronger. Number one, when you can train your mind to only bring thoughts that have benefit, appeal, and possibility, if your mind brings you a thought that sounds beneficial and it's appealing, you now have to question, is it possible to do so? For example, somebody who has a drinking problem, and they say to me, well, what about this thought that comes into my mind about wanting to drink? Okay, let's take a look at that. Is, is that beneficial? Is it appealing? Oh, yeah. Is it possible? Oh, yeah. But it's not beneficial. So it didn't meet the three criteria. It has to meet all three. Benefit, appeal, and possibility. So number two is learning to become indifferent to some of those thoughts. So if a thought comes in that doesn't fit benefit, appeal, and possibility, you can reject it. That's how you know you're becoming mentally stronger. And then number three, how you know you're becoming mentally stronger is you become optimistic. You, you now start seeing things through an optimistic lens as opposed to the negative. How fit are you in terms of your optimism? Are you a 30% optimistic person? Maybe you're even 100% optimistic. Wherever you are on that scale, you have to intentionally work on it to improve it. So if you want to become more optimistic, you have to then start training your brain to become optimistic and see things differently.