177 Mental Toughness Secrets Of The World Class

The world class is brutally honest with themselves, and they tend to look reality in the face. They err on the side of over-practicing and over-preparing. Champions know that to ascend to the top, you must first be operating from a mindset of objective reality. Self-deception and delusion have no place in the professional performer’s consciousness.

The middle class trades time for money. The world class trades ideas that solve problems for money. They believe money flows from ideas.
“Wealth is the product of a man’s capacity to think.” — Ayn Rand
If you want to become wealthier, begin to raise your self-image by upgrading the self-talk you use around money and finances. If all you do is chase more money, you are simply attacking the effect. The cause is how you think and if you improve the cause, the effect will take care of itself.

While average people haphazardly pursue loosely defined goals, champions concentrate on the attainment of a singular purpose with an intensity that borders on obsession. World-class performers invest an inordinate amount of time and energy in selecting their major goals. While the masses consider making changes every New Year’s Eve, the goal setting and planning process is an everyday habit of champions. When the goals are set, champions put mental blinders on and move forward with dogged persistence and ferocious tenacity. World class performers create such an intense level of concentration to overcome challenges and achieve goals that it is the last thing they think about before they fall asleep, and the first thing that hits them when they wake up. The great ones dream about their goals so frequently that they often keep pen and paper on the nightstand so they can quickly record any ideas or solutions that come to them in the middle of the night.

World-class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets tough.
The process great leaders and coaches use is tedious, time consuming, and simple: ask questions, and don't stop until you have landed on the emotional hot buttons. World class coaches keep digging until they hit the vein of gold-when the performer begins answering in terms of how they feel, as opposed to what they think. When they hit the vein of gold, they continue to probe until the performer reaches an emotional high point, known in performance circles as the white moment. The white moment is the strongest emotional driver of a performer. Coaches use emotional drivers to motivate and inspire performers to push beyond their threshold of pain, to accomplish feats that, without this level of motivation, would be impossible.

Champions use their critical thinking skills to make a clear distinction between truth and fact. Fact is reality. Truth is our perception of reality, and perceptions are subjective.

Champions have come so far in raising their level of awareness that they realize there is always a higher level.
The great ones have a worldview that says happiness is learning, growing, and becoming. School is never out for champions. The more they learn, the more they realize how much they don’t know.

Average people have been programmed to avoid pain at all costs, which promotes a ‘playing not to lose’ mentality. Many world-class performers were raised with these same beliefs, yet learned to reprogram themselves somewhere along the way. Champions learn how to develop empowering beliefs and invest a substantial amount of time solidifying those beliefs, mostly through their own self-talk.
A world-class belief system is a primary factor in the making of a champion, and every great performer knows it.

The great ones develop the unique ability to measure beyond their own perspective. This is one of the secrets which enables them to reach for goals and dreams far exceeding anything they have accomplished in the past. The goal, dream or vision may be big to them, but to a bigger champion with a broader perspective, it’s child’s play. This critical thinking skill removes the intimidation factor and raises their level of expectation. Is a million dollars a lot of money? The masses would say “yes”. The world class asks, “compared to what?” Compared to a dollar, a million dollars is a lot. Compared to one hundred million dollars, it’s not much at all. Don’t underestimate this seemingly minute subtlety, because adopting this one simple principle could transform your perception of every aspect of life.

Professional performers make the difficult look easy. They’re able to manage multiple problems and maintain emotional control while solving each problem individually. Average people get bogged down in the details of every little problem and become overwhelmed.
Commit to compartmentalizing problems by focusing exclusively on one problem at a time. Imagine you are the President of the United States. You must keep a clear, unemotional mind during the problem-solving process. The masses multitask. The great ones focus.