Mental strength takes in a sweeping range of human development improvements but most of all, life balance, personal performance, being happy at work and home and productivity. Mental strength training is for athletes and business people alike, the demands are identical.
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For many years people have asked me about Innerwealth, and how my life
morphed into itâs current form as a world leading authority and speaker on
human development. That process, I reply, has not been through the academic
nor conventional roads, not the easy way, thatâs for sure. Over these 40 years,
Iâve worked with suicidal indigenous kids, drug addicted rock stars, broken
hearted parents and fear filled executives, from international billionaires to
Nepalese penniless children. Some of the most and some of the least famous
people on earth. But Iâve always treated people as equals, Iâve felt superior nor
inferior, because there is one single thing we all have in common, a human
heart. Not just the physical one, the spiritual one, with this engine room in the
body, we can do anything, survive, create, build, recover, help others and make
the world a better place for others too. Therefore, no work I do to express my
experience in mental strength would be complete without a clear engagement
of the heart. That is the subject of this short workbook.
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The first balance in life
Is the balance between head and heart
Too much of one makes us weak and vulnerable
Too much of the other makes us hard and unknowable
Mental strength means to stay respectful of both
Head and Heart in Balance.
7. Why the Heart is a Vital Key to Mental Strength
1. It feels good and itâs hard to do good in life if you donât feel good
2. Itâs resilient and will turn things that are in the way to on the way
3. It always bounces back so itâs a great influence on your life
4. Itâs attractive to those who want to love and respect you
5. Itâs immune from trend, fashion and flattery so itâs a wise compass
6. Itâs vital for health and vitality, it keeps you young and alive
7. It dreams, holds visions, commits to goals and is very patient
8. It makes a difference in the lives of others, changes them
9. Itâs a great home for goodness, partner, family and friends
10. Itâs the best friend youâll ever have
11. Itâs strong, truthful and reliable - canât be manipulated or tricked
12. It loves life, wants the best for everyone, creates real success
13. It canât be bought, so itâs the same in all areas of life
14. Itâs yours, nothing else matters.
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9. THE HUMAN HEART IN MENTAL STRENGTH- GPCL
Results
YOUR HEART
GRATITUDE
CERTAINTY
LOVE
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PRESENCE
10. HOW TO INCLUDE YOUR HEART IN YOUR MENTAL
STRENGTH TRAINING
People say put your heart into it; it means to become fully
invested. It means to throw the full weight of your humanity
behind something. There are no half hearted success
stories. We must be vigilant. Our heart must remain
invested. When the heart goes out of something we
automatically sabotage it. So, if we can invest ourselves in
maintaining the commitment of our heart we will
automatically achieve many of our dreams in life.
PRESENCE
Your heart is the core of your deepest humanity. When we
have finished exploring intellect and attending ceremonies,
when we are exhausted trying to change the unchangeable,
then we come to rest in our heart. This is a beautiful reality,
the core of confidence, love, beauty and a healthy life. By
listening to your own heart, to your own particular gifts, it
enables you to focus on what you really love to do and to
express yourself without tension or reaction with certainty
about where you are going, why you are here, who you are
and why your journey to this moment in time has been
flawless.
CERTAINTY
When we explore the term heart in common language we find
that 'heart' means the central or innermost part of something
such as the âheart of the cityâ, it also means the essential or
vital part of something such as "what is the heart of the
matter?" A person with a âlot of heartâ is someone who
appreciates life. To âlose heartâ means to be discouraged so
we see that the will of a person emanates from their heart. We
refer to the heart when we talk about generosity or sincerity as
well as consideration, understanding and helpfulness as when
we say, "He has a big heart." or "She is a dear heart." When a
person is cruel or mean or when someone shows no gratitude
for others we say, "His heart is closed or small or cold or that
he has no heart at all.â
GRATITUDE
If one spent their whole life doing nothing other than opening
their heart and developing the qualities of the heart, it is no
exaggeration to say that this effort alone would bring them to
the highest goal of human life. Because it is through the heart
that one finds their truth and within the heart that one finds
their True Nature. It is the human heart that can love without
condition. It is here that strength and conviction emanate.
Compassion and loving-kindness live in the heart and it is here
that one feels authentic. It is through the heart that we can find
the way to treat humanity while being true to ourselves.
LOVE
There are no half hearted success stories
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YOU ARE UNIQUE.
BUT IT IS ONLY WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART THAT TRULY DIFFERENTIATES YOU
Christopher Walker
13. Working with Heart Mental Strength at Work
Presenteeism is a corporate nightmare costing organisations
at work far more than absenteeism and sick leave ever did
or will cost. Presenteeism â people turning up 50% - is the
real problem individuals face at work. Mental strength,
productivity, enjoyment, success, health, wellbeing are 100%
dependent on being present which is an automatic result of
an open heart. Can you keep your heart open in hell?
PRESENCE
Where is this work taking you? Why are you here at work?
Who are you at work (job relevance)? And are you bringing
your past forward with confidence. The power of thought is
so strong that if these questions are not answered with
absolute clarity and engaging enthusiasm, then sabotage
and exit is inevitable. Building the future must begin with
belief and the greatest source of such belief is from an open
heart, this is where resilient dreams are stored and held with
conviction and commitment.
CERTAINTY
What you appreciate grows. People become as you treat them.
If you continually find fault with yourself and others, then you
are not appreciating what you or others have got. What you
donât appreciate, you lose. Nothing destroys a person or a
team more than negative expectations, criticism. Appreciation,
the automatic attitude that flows from an open heart, builds
business, clients, teams and wealth.
GRATITUDE
The person who is doing what they love and loving what they
do will be far more rewarded in life than those who are less
engaged and satisfied with their work. But it is not the work that
matters. One can have false or true expectations of work and if
they are true, then the heart is open but if they are false, there
would never be a âlove for workâ even if their was a job made
in heaven with a massive salary. Loving work means working
with an open heart with real expectations.
LOVE
There are no half hearted success stories
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14. HOW TO KEEP YOUR HEART OPEN IN HELL
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You want to make a hell of a profit and still go to heaven? Well, thereâs one way I
know and that is with your heart wide open because then you will you find the right
balance. The mind, given its freedom, will cause emotional swings, unreliable and
unstable leadership, illness, trouble, negativity and bad news for self and other. You
are better than that. You can have goodness in all the seven areas of life, with your
heart open in hell.
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The saddest thing you will ever see is the loss of human potential
when people think that they think, but donât.
Christopher Walker
16. PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT THEY THINK
A closed heart is filled with fear of the future and
therefore it holds on tightly to the past. It grasps at
history, it tries to control, dominate and is filled with itself
in a survival strategy even if, the source of the problem
has long passed. The habit of greed can become the
new ânormalâ but a closed heart can never be happy.
Greed
A closed heart will want to escape the reality of pollution,
humanity, war, city life, dirt and human reality and they
will close their eyes in transcendent dreams hoping to
arrive in a nirvana in which the realities of human life are
modified to their expectations and fantasies. This fake
spiritual substitute is easy to sell to a closed heart
because, unlike food, greed or sexuality it is legitemised
as ârightâ in a like minded community of similarly closed
hearts.
Spirituality
When the heart closes, addictions to food and substances
rapidly emerge. Medications, alcohol and drugs become
habitual and the real source of the problem can be hidden
for a lifetime at great personal and community cost. Body
weight wellbeing and health are vital signs of an open
hearted person.
Food and Substance
A closed heart can find no centre, we call a person with a
closed heart a âlost soulâ â without direction, seeking
instantaneous satisfaction, which is always temporary and
leads to an insatiable appetite for experiences that evaporate
as fast as they are consumed. Life becomes smaller, love.
Real love becomes harder to find.
Sexuality
Beware of thinking without heart.. When the heart is not included in mental strength people can do toxic things to others and for themselves
they will reach for substitutes. In our modern world substitutes are plentiful and growing exponentially. Substitutes are the commercial dream of
the marketers, self-help guruâs and food companies. there is a growing market for substitutes for children and youth, enabling parents to be
ignorant of their own shadows. We can be vigilant about quick fixes that seem innocent, but mask a closed heart at work and at home. A closed
heart can produce results, but at what cost to self and others?
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BEYOND EMOTIONAL UPS AND DOWNS
YOUR GOALS CAN BE YOUR HEARTâS THUMBPRINT
Christopher Walker
19. V.I.P VISION, INSPIRATION AND PURPOSE
PURPOSE
You have a purpose, a chief
aim for life. When you
perceive yourself fulfilling
this purpose you grow in
self-worth
INSPIRATION
Have commitment to and
constancy of purpose. Be
unwavering. The secret of
fulfillment and success is
constancy of purpose.
VISION
Once a master purpose is
acknowledged, all further
secondary choices can be
more effectively made. If
your primary choice is based
on your loves, then all
further choices will follow.
Clarity and certainty is the
result.
PURPOSE
INSPIRATIONVISION
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20. FOCUS ON SOULâS GOALS â YOUR LOVE TOâS
DISTRACTIONS
DISTRACTIONS
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21. WRITE YOUR LOVE LIST
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Ask Yourself: If you couldnât fail what would you love to be, do, have in
each of the seven areas of life? If you can be truly honest with yourself, in
as much detail as possible with mental images, words and pictures, you will
know what is in your heart.
22. 3 DIFFERENT TYPES OF GOALS
PERFORMANCE
GOALS
What you are trying to
achieve such as a best
time or a certain number
of sales, profit margin
and qualifying standards
for anything you set your
mind to. These are the
targets of the Process
Goals.
OUTCOME GOALS
This type of goal is the
normal goal business
people and sporting
people focus on. Such
as winning a race or
getting promoted.
These goals are not
usually in the direct
control of the individual.
PROCESS GOALS
Are those things professionals and
athletes need to focus on, such as
nutrition, thinking process, focus,
positive mindset. These goals are
under an individualâs control, link to
outcomes and performance and can be
measured in the SMART goal process.
Can be
Controlled
Cannot be
Controlled
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23. Write in Detail How Your Goals Would Look As
If You Were There Achieving Them NowâŠ
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Writing acts as the first step in translating intangible ideas into tangible reality.
Writing acts as a commitment. A short pencil is better than a long memory in bringing
ideas into form. Writing crystallizes your enlightening thought flashes so as to make
them perceivable and achievable. There is a magic to writing. This is why writing your
list of loves is so powerful. Review and if necessary rewrite your love list often.
Update this list. Add details as they become clear. Inspired writing is the best. It
requires little editing and when read it births inspired actions. Be sure when writing
your lists of loves, that you include reasonable space and time frames for their
manifestations. Being as specific as you can in time and space helps your mind and
body take more powerful actions with greater ease. Use S.M.A.R.T For Goals.
25. A POSITIVE MINDSET
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If you wish to succeed in any undertaking whatsoever, it is vital that you
concentrate upon that which you intend to do. You will move in the direction
of your dominant thought. Since thought is always emphasizing something, it is
wise to concentrate on your flowers, not your weeds. Your flowers are those
inspiring ideas and thoughts you would love to bring into reality. Your weeds
are the tangential thoughts or lower priority obstacles. When you focus on the
positive and your mind is attuned to your Soul For Goal, the only ideas that
flash into your mind are those of flowers. Gratefulness sharpens concentration.
26. POSITIVE MINDSET
3 Different types of Self-Talk
Itâs how you talk yourself into or out of
everything you do. To be effective it is
wise to be aware of the two sides to
everything but focus on the bright
side â always, Secondly, encourage
yourself by talking to yourself in the
third person âYouâ â eg; You are right
on trackâ
Motivational Self
Talk
Motivational
A detail-oriented, ever watchful coach in
your head who keeps telling you what to
do. Itâs that judge scrutinising your every
movement. Effective Instructional self-talk
is focused on the specifics of technique, of
the mechanics of how to do things
properly. â Just focus and think about
whatâs happening around you.â
Instructional Self
Talk
Instructional
This is when you say âWell doneâ after
getting though a particular difficulty or
a strong effort as a way of
congratulating yourself. Itâs not just
praise for praise sake - reward self-talk
actually helps build your self-
confidence, makes your mindset more
positive, strengthens your will and
motivation goes up.
Reward Self
Talk
Reward
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When you are present, your mind becomes clear and focused on what you
love. What you think and thank about, you bring about! Think and thank
about what you would love daily!
Create A Dream Board, Read it Morning,
Noon and Night â Sleep on It âŠ..
29. Write Your LUCKY FKR LIST âŠ..
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When you feel lucky you are seeing just how blessed you are in life
30. HOW TO FOCUS
Isolate and drown out the negative
Shutting what down? Truth is what we
shut down when we compartmentalise.
Say youâre swimming and not feeling
great, compartmentalise means to focus
on something else, to isolate the
ânegativeâ from the âpositiveâ and be in a
bubble. Self talk has three options for this
purpose: 1. Motivational â pep talk, 2.
Technical (technique and process) 3.
Reward (celebrating the Now).
Whichever is going bad, find the other
and isolate the negative by focusing on
the positive. It works, temporarily and we
can suffer the after effects willingly, post
event.
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31. Focus is achieved by compartmentalisation. It works to isolate one goal
and one vision to create a one dimensional impression of life. We can
use compartmentalisation to isolate ourselves from the other six areas of
life so that we can focus on one thing for an event or presentation. But
we cannot compartmentalise continuously or it will lead to an
imbalanced and one sided impression of our life.
Balance means balanced in all seven areas of life, not just one area
compartmentalised from the others. Problems solved in one area of life
will cause change in other areas of life and possibly throw them out of
balance. We must see ourselves as total human beings, not
compartments. Compartmentalisation works for events and special
moments of focus.
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33. REVIEW AND IMPROVE
POWER
Goals drive you, encourage
you, motivate you. âSMARTâ
goals create the power,
physical and mental to do
what you do, well.
PAIN
Pain represents growth. It
triggers you to Review and
Improve: Get better: Pain is
a measure of your effort, itâs
a good thing as long as it
stimulates you to improve.
PERFORMANCE
POWER
PAINPERFORM
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What you do day to day
links to what you want to
year to year, then you will
reward yourself daily and
only you can reward
yourself through the 3 levels
of self talk and create a
positive, winning mindset.
Performance is power, pain
and reward â hour by hour.
Link what you do to what
you love. Balanced Success
34. Review and Improve â Continuous Improvement
Purpose
Your spiritual heart is
beyond the limits of the self.
Want what you havenât got
Your desires keep you the
self, expanding, growing,
building, they keep you alive.
Inspired - 100% Satisfied
Lost momentum, lost
ambition, lost desire, lost
appetite we are afraid of
love.
Purpose
VisionInspiration
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35. You are powerful beyond yourself. There is more to your greatness
than you know and you will only find it through pain. Struggle digs you
into you, draws you closer to your heart and soul. Only your mind
wants to give up because your mind might mistakenly see the one side
of something, the pain or the hardship, but there is another side you
can show your mind. If you trust your heart you will not be trapped in
your mind seeing the dark when there is the other. If you trust your
heart you will know that you are fine, you are where you are meant to
be, you will know, that you know that you know that your dreams will
come through to you as long as you have mental strength that includes
your heart.
REVIEW AND IMPROVE: DONâT RUN
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36. Any achievement requires the mental strength to overcome getting side-tracked.
To give up because it is too hard means our goals were not big enough.
Nothing destroys mental strength and success faster than the lack of enjoyment that comes as
a result of not knowing, not thinking about, what makes the world go round.
False expectations come when we think that we think but donât think. Like saying emotions
are real, then they disrupt the mind, corrupt the spirit and distract us from what might have
been a good way.
There is order in the chaos we call life. Challenges are not challenges, they are contradictions
between our expectations and reality. There is a way to work with challenges that makes us
happier and more open hearted. Believe that in every challenge there is a magic.
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REVIEW AND IMPROVE
37. It is amazing to find out that an upper in one area of life will always be
balanced by a downer in another area of life. One must accept this and
therefore the need for prioritisation of time and effort. All seven areas
require equal importance, but not equal time and effort.
It is most important in life to say âthis is my highest priorityâ â which
area of your life is your highest priority. It doesnât suggest that all the
other areas are not important, but, you canât serve many masters,
therefore you must serve only one, your highest priority.
It is no shadow of doubt that to know yourself is to know your values.
For example: you would probably protect and provide for your family but
this does not always means staying at home guarding. It might means
making money, which is really, in this case, the highest priority.
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REVIEW AND IMPROVE
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Spiritual
Mental
Social
Career
Health
Financial
Relationship
7 AREAS OF LIFE â SEVEN AREAS OF BALANCE
40. MENTAL STRENGTH SUMMARY
Cut yourself space to grow in the
real world, live and grow, evolve
and learn, self-respect, self-
esteem, self-love, internal dialogue
Review and Improve
Your love of life is expressed
through your goals, this is your
heart in action
Your Goals
What you appreciate grows. Your
body believes what you tell it.
Encourage and support yourself,
see the bright side, build power.
Your Positive Attitude
What you think about you bring
about - Directs your energy, builds
resilience, strength, vitality,
presence, vibe
Your Focus
Youâll sabotage anything that
doesnât link to your purpose
Your Heart
TOTAL HUMAN AWARENESS
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41. MORE ABOUT MENTAL STRENGTH
Vision, Inspiration, Purpose
V.I.P
Everyone has goals, some big, some small, but
the person who commits to their goals, is on fire
with passion and commitment, their heart is
engaged and all success comes from 100%
commitment from the heart. One big burning goal
stands above all else, and all else is linked to it.
This is the fire of the soul in action.
Napoleon Hill, âWhat you ca conceive and
believe, you can achieveâ Hill observed that what
all successful people shared, whether they were
in business, politics or athletics was a single
minded, unwavering belief in their ability to
accomplish their goals. They could picture their
success so clearly that the future became the
present. Their sense of confidence was so
strong that failure never occurred to them, or if it
did, they shut it out with every fiber of their being
believing that they were capable.
Studies show that our mind does not know
the difference between reality and imagined
futures so a single thought, whether true or
false, impacts you and because your mind
believes it and rewards you by reinforcing the
belief. Positive means see both sides but
concentrate on winning, achieving your goal
no matter what the reality.
All human problems stem from our inability to
sit quietly in a room alone. Pascal wrote this
when speaking about the inability to focus our
mind on a single burning ambition, to hold a
single thought like satisfaction or love or
gratitude. This is the key to action that
counts, we must focus in a world hell bent on
delivering distractions.
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