How do I become mentally strong?

It’s funny…

Cold showers are bar none one of the FASTEST ways to build mental

Have a short event where you complete a certain set of mentally challenging activities every day.

Why is it difficult to get a job?

Plain and simple.

strength isn’t rocket science.

This exercise will teach you to keep going even when things are hard and, if applied regularly, will help you become mentally tougher than any other person you know.

Have you been with a stranger yet?

In the same way that you can’t go to the gym, deadlift 225 lbs. for 5 reps one week and then expect to lift 405 lbs. for 5 reps the next week, you can’t expect to just wake up one day and be as mentally strong

Within a few months, you’ll be astounded by your levels of mental

Challenge yourself and you’ll be amazed by the results.

How do people move on so quickly? I’m still sprung over someone I was dating and he found someone else so fast. I feel hurt because I’m still head over heels over him while he’s out enjoying his life with someone new

Another great way to boost your mental

It just won’t happen. You have to work up to it and slowly build your mental

Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.

What is the scariest thing that ever happened in your life?

Start small in 10–15 minute increments and eventually, you’ll be waking up at 4:30 a.m. like a Navy SEAL.

Start out small with only 10–30 seconds after your normal shower.

5. Give Up a Vice

Who is the most trusted person in your life, and do they have the same trust on you?

Anytime you’re training in the gym, challenge yourself, once per workout, to do just “One more rep”.

One of the HARDEST thing you can do to build your mental

Whether it’s cigarettes, candy, pot, alcohol, or porn, pick a vice that you use everyday, and commit to giving it up for a short period of time.

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Sitting down for 5–30 minutes and doing NOTHING is way harder than it sounds.

Our lives are way too easy.

It’s funny to me how often people ignore this principle in their lives.

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While I don’t recommend giving up sleep for a week and doing thousands of pushups (unless you have a thing for broken bones and screwed up joints), I challenge you to create your own Hell Week.

toughness is to meditate.

Here are a few ideas to get you started .

This is a real question: Why do a lot of men/boys hate (yes, hate) women that voice their criteria in choosing a partner? Even when the criteria is sane and responsible. Besides it being, sadly, an effective mating strategy, why does it exist?

Then slowly work your way up until you can easily go 30–60 days without giving into the temptation.

The same way you get physically stronger…

If you are seriously wanting to give up a vice (like smoking or drinking), you’ll want to throw away anything that reminds you of it.

Can Donald Trump use the Alien Friends Act of 1798 to give ALL illegal immigrants an ultimatum: You have 1 month to leave America, after which you will be arrested and jailed for 3 years?

But rather, turn off Netflix 15 minutes before you normally do, go to bed earlier, and then wake up earlier.

If you want to get mentally tougher, start by meditating for only 3 minutes a day.

One rep, one set, and one step at a time.

Are rich people harder workers than poor people as a whole?

strength?

If you try to do too much too soon, you will burn out and quit EVERY single time.

toughness is to wake up earlier.

Are women as visual as men are?

Do just ONE more rep when you don’t think you can.

When we get hot, we touch a button and voila! The room cools down to a chilly 68 degrees.

DON’T do this on the bench press or squat rack if you don’t have a spotter (there’s nothing mentally tough about breaking your back or killing yourself ok?)

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Seriously.

6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)

Start with only 12–24 hours.

4. Meditate

Increase the amount of time you spend in the cold by only 10–30 seconds a week and, after a few months, you’ll be able to take 10 minute cold showers with ease.

The majority of recruits quit. Those who don’t leave the evolution knowing that they can do ANYTHING they set their minds to.

There’s nothing quite like intentionally subjecting yourself to frigid waters and saying “No” to the wonderful warmth of a hot shower when it’s only one twist of the handle away requires insane amounts of discipline and grit.

It’s simply learning to be comfortable doing things you don’t want to do.

2. One More Rep

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Before We Begin: The Principle of Progressive Overload

Start now, start small, and work your way up.

And it’s exactly how it sounds.

Do 11 pullups instead of 10.

Try pushing yourself to see how long you can go and, eventually, you’ll wonder why you used climate control in the first place (maybe not… But you’ll still be mentally tougher).

So apply these strategies slowly. Take small steps and challenge yourself to get 1% tougher every day. After a year has gone by, you’ll be 365% tougher than you were the previous year.

Add 1–2 minutes each week and, overtime, not only will you be mentally tougher, but you’ll be more present, less stressed, and more productive in your everyday life.

strength over time.

Cold showers suck. I’ve taken them (almost) everyday for nearly 6 years and they don’t suck any less today than they did when I started.

toughness.

But anytime you’re doing an exercise where you can safely push yourself, go for just ONE more rep than you’re comfortable doing.

Sit in the car on a hot day without cranking up the AC.

Whether it’s total sobriety combined with waking up at 5 a.m., daily exercise, and no television for a week.Or simply one week of giving up your strongest addiction.

3. Turn Off the AC

as a Navy SEAL.

It’s 7 days of almost no sleep, constant physical exercise, and psychological warfare.

Leave a bowl of candy on the table. Leave an open pack of cigarettes in your office. Go to an, *ahem* “gentlemanly” website and leave it open in a minimized browser.

In the Navy SEAL training program, there’s an event known as hell week.

Try it… You’ll see.

I’d challenge you to stretch your mental

toughness, then add some temptation and make it harder to say “No”.

And you’ll be amazed by the hidden strength your body has.

1. Cold Showers

But if you’re doing this SOLELY to test your mental

Not only will you be saving the environment and helping retrain your body to internally regulate your temperature, but you’ll become stronger by saying “no” to ease, and “yes” to adversity.

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toughness by turning the AC off.

Challenge yourself to do something seemingly impossible for a short amount of time and you will walk away with more mental toughness than you’ve ever had before.

Do 21 pushups instead of 20.

Start this off by doing it for one day.

7. Go Through Hell Week

I’m just better at handling the suck.

Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.

So how do you cultivate mental