Mental Toughness Is a Lot More Simple Than You’re Making It Out to Be
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Mental toughness is the ability to overcome and outlast worries and circumstances and anything else HARD that has the potential to keep you stuck. And that can sound like a MOUNTAIN to climb doesn't it?
SPOILER: it's not. And in this episode I'm going to tell you WHY — why it's not as difficult as it sounds AND why YOU are MORE than capable of being mentally tough. Because you're a mama and (surprise!) you forge this in yourself EVERY day.
"Mental toughness is the ability to resist, manage and overcome doubts, worries, concerns and circumstances that prevent you from succeeding, or excelling at a task or towards something you set out to achieve.” - Mental Toughness, Inc.
You're truly ONE one decision away from getting more mentally tough. Resisting worries, managing doubt, and overcoming circumstances are all things we take on DAILY as moms.
How you respond to circumstances or situations or THOUGHTS that come up determine if you're building your mental toughness or detracting from it.
You don't need to go out and train for and DO a half marathon or 6 mile obstacle course race… NO.
Next time you face WORRY or DOUBT or that initial unhelpful thought we talked about the other week — choose the path that makes you better!
It's in those small, seemingly insignificant moments that we build mental toughness and when you do that time after time after time you get more mentally tough!
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FULL TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] Mental toughness is the ability to resist manage and overcome doubts. Worries, concerns in circumstances that prevent you from succeeding or excelling at a task or towards an objective or a performance outcome that you set out to achieve. That's a quote by mental toughness. Inc. Sounds like a mountain to climb.
Doesn't it spoil? It's not, it's not. And I'm going to tell you why today. I'm going to tell you I mental toughness that ability to resist and overcome these worries and concerns or circumstances that are in your life that are keeping you back. From something that you're setting out to achieve, I'm going to tell you why it's not as difficult as it sounds, and you're going to learn why you are more than capable of being mentally tough.
Let's get into it.
Pay mama. Welcome to the tough love mom podcast. I know you're [00:01:00] here because you're ready to get consistent and finally lose that weight. And you're not afraid of a little tough love, you know, what to do to lose weight, but following through on those things feels and possible. You wish you could just feel like your strong, confident self again, and want to be good example for your little ones, but you get thrown off by mom guilt and the unpredictability of motherhood.
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With the sustainable approach to weight loss, symbol consistency in working on my mindset. I lost it all in just over a year, both times. And I'm here to help you do the same. I believe that we have an ingrained ability to figure out what we need to do, make it happen and do it in a way that AHS the world.
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So mental toughness is not a term I had even heard of until probably a few years ago, which I think is a huge blessing that I was just naive about what it even was. But I spent basically my whole life doing things that grew mental toughness without me even realizing, realizing what I was doing. And if you didn't, if you're like, I don't have a lot, I didn't have a lot of those opportunities growing up or so far in my life.
That's what. Our brains have plasticity, meaning they can change AKA you can change. And while mental toughness is this ability to resist and manage and overcome doubts and concerns and worries, and all these things that prevent you from moving forward to what [00:03:00] you want to do according to mental toughness incorporated, even though that's that what that means.
You're truly only one decision away from getting more mentally tough. So how. Because it sounds like a lot, right? It sounds like all these different pieces. It sounds like this idealistic version of yourself that seems really far off. It's really not. And I'm going to tell you why resisting worries. I'm going to break this down a little bit.
Resisting worries, managing doubt, overcoming circumstances. Those are all things that we take on daily as moms, literally moment by moment. Like if I think about overcoming circumstances, okay. My kid woke up at 5:00 AM and now I have to figure out when I'm going to work out during the day and get in a little bit of time, just totally alone, where it's quiet.
That's why we're coming to circle. Managing doubt. Um, I'm worried I'm messing up my kids. That's a huge doubt that we all face as moms at one point or another. Well, I'm not going to get consumed by that because I know, and I [00:04:00] can trust in and lean on the things I do do to be intentional and present with my kids.
Right. And managing that doubt. And I'm managing it pretty well. Resisting worries. I don't even think I have to go there, but we worry about our kids, their safety, what may happen. And we resist getting consumed by that often. So. Resisting worries, managing doubt, overcoming circumstances. Can you think of a time in the last 24 hours you have done even just one of those things.
I'm guessing. Yes. Now, based on how you respond to certain circumstances or situations or thoughts that come up, determine if you're building your mental toughness or detracting from it. So you just thought of a time in the last 24 hours, you have done something like resisting worries or managing doubt overcoming circumstances.
You came up with one now, how did you respond to it? If you responded in a way that was productive and how. And you didn't get consumed. That's literally the only difference is are you getting consumed by that worry or that [00:05:00] circumstance? And are you doing it every single time or are there times that you overcome that you resist it, you manage those feelings and those thoughts that aren't productive.
It's as simple as that. And my guess is you're here listening to this podcast. If you've smiled today, if you've moved about your day with a little bit of confidence or a little bit of know-how, or a little bit of, I will figure this out, you have mental toughness in you and you do do you do make decisions throughout the day to grow that.
So I just want to point that out real quick, because it is that simple. You don't need to go out and train for, or do half marathon or a six mile obstacle course, or that crazy four by four by 48 that I did. Like you do not have to do those things. And it's not the only way to build mental toughness. It genuinely comes every single day.
There are so many moments. We have the opportunity to build our mental toughness. So literally the next time you face worry or doubt or that initial unhelpful thought, we talked about the other [00:06:00] week. If that comes up, I want you to choose the path that makes you. I want you to choose the path. That's more productive that you are now realizing is building your mental toughness, because it is in those small seemingly insignificant moments where we build that skill, where we build that characteristic in ourselves.
And when you do that time, after time, after time, you get more mentally tough. Isn't that so good. So what we're doing over in the tough love moms squad today is recognizing those moments. We're recognizing what has happened in the last 24 hours or last couple of days where I've had to manage my doubt or my expectations, or, you know, overcome obstacles.
The way I responded built my mental toughness. We're, we're calling those out today because it's important that we're aware of when those are happening both after the fact, but especially in the moment. And when you can look back and start recognizing those that have happened in the past, you can now be more present in the moment.[00:07:00]
Oh, I have the opportunity right now to get a little more mentally Tufts. I'm here for it. I'm going to make a choice that's productive and good for me and going to build me not only as a woman, but as a mom, and be an example to my kids in a way that I'm strong and able and mentally tough because you are so go over the tough love moms squad.
Today, you can join at the link below and share. What's made you mentally tough in the last 24 hours. I mean, it can be small, even feels like a really small. That you're like, that was kind of like silly and insignificant, but genuinely, if you had to do something like resist doubt or worries or overcome circumstances or manage any concerns that were coming up, if you had that happen in the last 24 hours, you have probably grown your mental toughness.
And again, it grows small little bits by small little bits. It doesn't happen in these huge jumps. Like we think it does from doing like some crazy obstacle course race or half marathon. Yeah, those are, [00:08:00] those are big moments when we do have bigger jumps in it, but we do develop it day in and day out, or we can detract from it day in and day out.
But you're a tough love mama. So I know you are intentional and aware of when you have those opportunities and now are even more equipped to do so. So go out there this week, make sure that you're aware. Opportunities that you have, and please head over to the tough of mom's squad and let me know, I can't wait to hear and just celebrate those opportunities you capitalized on and got more mentally tough with that have happened just in the past 24 hours.
So I'll go chat with you over there. Mama, go get after it this week before you go. Thank you for spending this time with me on the tough love mom podcast. If this episode encouraged you in any way, the number one way you can thank me is to leave her a review. Letting me know how the show has impacted you.
Then send this episode to another mom friend, or take a screenshot posted on social media and tag me so I can personally thank you for helping me on this journey to impact thousands of moms. [00:09:00] I'm so grateful to be able to starting with the sister until next time. Get after it.
