3 Skills to Overcome Mental Obstacles

3 Skills to Overcome Mental Obstacles

If you were to draw a metaphorical map to success, what would it look like? Ideally, we could draw a straight line from A to B with every step neatly laid out and planned for, but everyone knows this is never the case. The line from rags to riches goes every which direction and travels through the mud and the muck on the way. And while there will always be some circumstances beyond control, the only real barrier in the path to success is ourselves.

Overcoming mental blocks is the make-or-break skill for every entrepreneur starting from the bottom and dreaming of the top. Top networking companies like Amway lay out these skills in their Global Entrepreneurship Report and every publication from Forbes to Business Week talks about mental toughness regularly as it relates to success in business.

There are dozens of mental pain points and obstacles to overcome for success. But anyone who’s made it in this world will tell you that these three are some of the most important mental skills in the game if you want to survive what the world will throw at you.

Embrace Failure

Failure isn’t just a possibility in the path to success; it’s a requirement. Everyone from Steve Jobs to Michael Jordan has experienced massive failures—Jobs was fired from Apple after the Macintosh underwhelmed and undersold and Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. These weren’t mere roadblocks in otherwise legendary stories but events that helped shape the men who created the iPhone and ruled the NBA.

Here’s another sentiment—it’s only truly a failure if you give up or, even worse, not try at all. Don’t let the fear of failure rule your decision making. Face it head on and it will be your expressway to more success.

Practice Daily Gratitude

The importance of gratitude has never been understated, but now it’s backed by science. That’s why some of the world’s busiest and most successful people always find time to carve out just five minutes every morning and night to express gratitude and journal each day’s successes.

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Practicing daily gratitude does so much more than help us be more thankful (though that is one perk). It empowers us daily by putting goals in front of each morning and night. By continually writing down what we are grateful for, we begin to change habits and make better decisions to achieve goals. It clearly has done wonders for the success stories who still do this every morning. Books like “The Five-Minute Journal” are a great way to get started with daily gratitude.

Fight the Feedback Loop

Does this predicament sound familiar? Maybe you have a bad day at work or a project you worked hard on is criticized by a manager or client, so naturally it makes you upset or anxious. But instead of letting that anxiety pass, you’re now becoming anxious about the anxiety, followed by anger that all of these emotions are snowballing inside your head. Welcome to the feedback loop from hell.

Expectations can cause havoc in success when they’re unrealistic, and every Snapchat video, Instagram picture, Facebook post and Tweet tells us that every experience should be perfect and enjoyable. But that isn’t life and, in short, you shouldn’t be so hard on yourself. Bad days, poor projects and rejection will come around the corner (more than you expect), but as long as you roll with punches and know it’s part of life, the feedback loop doesn’t stand a chance.

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