How do I become mentally strong?

Do 11 pullups instead of 10.

Start this off by doing it for one day.

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

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

Try it… You’ll see.

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

What are your political and economic beliefs? How did you form them, especially in comparison to those who hold opposing views?

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.

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

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

I'm very sick. 72 years old. I thinking I'm losing my mind. My dead friend told me it's going to be okay. I could feel him. There is more…I don't know what but more.

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

Another great way to boost your mental

Start with only 12–24 hours.

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I’m just better at handling the suck.

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

toughness by turning the AC off.

What is a real life example of the Streisand Effect?

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.

Plain and simple.

toughness is to wake up earlier.

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1. Cold Showers

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.

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

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Here are a few ideas to get you started .

6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)

strength isn’t rocket science.

Is there a correlation between being a medium and mental health?

And it’s exactly how it sounds.

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.

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.

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

Our lives are way too easy.

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

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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 is to meditate.

Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.

If you’re an atheist, what would be your motive in spreading atheism, and why would you care what others believe?

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).

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

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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The same way you get physically stronger…

as a Navy SEAL.

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.

How can you tell if someone or someone's is trying to recruit or at least test you for a secret organization?

Before We Begin: The Principle of Progressive Overload

strength?

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.

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

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.

I’d challenge you to stretch your mental

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

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.

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

It’s funny…

Mental

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

Seriously.

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

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

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

2. One More Rep

Do 21 pushups instead of 20.

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.

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

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

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

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

7. Go Through Hell Week

strength over time.

toughness.

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

5. Give Up a Vice

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

4. Meditate

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

3. Turn Off the AC

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.

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

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

strength.

So how do you cultivate mental

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

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

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.

Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.