Number 1: Emotional responsibility
Are you afraid of disappointing people? You may compromise your commitments, your time, and values to spare another person’s feelings. But are their feelings your responsibility? People with mental strength ask this question early and often.
All right, let’s say you’re looking forward to a relaxing afternoon by yourself, right as you’re settling in for the night, your friend invites you to a concert, your friend seems really excited about going but you were excited for a quiet night alone, do you go to the concert or do you stay home by yourself?
Well, most of us would go to the concert, right? why is that? Because we’re afraid of disappointing people, deep down we choose other people over ourselves especially when we think they’ll turn against us, but if you have mental strength, you know that your friend’s emotions are not always your responsibility, you feel confident and comfortable standing up for yourself and you don’t feel guilty every time you say “No” because mentally strong people protect their emotions before anyone else’s.
Number 2: Owing nothing
Nobody owes you anything, mentally strong people know this like the back of their hand. You may think you deserve a promotion, a raise, or an opportunity. You may insist that you’ve worked harder than everyone else, you may assume that you want this dream more than anyone out there but the simple truth is no one is entitled to anything in life, no opportunity will fall into your lap because success is just not fair.
Some people stumble onto amazing opportunities without working for them. Others work their entire lives and get nothing. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but mentally strong people know this by heart.
That’s why people with mental strength take action, they’re the first to show initiative, they’re the first to chase their dreams and the last to give up on them.
Mentally strong people know that nothing in life is easy or automatic, jobs, friendships, relationships… They all require you to do the heavy lifting. If you aren’t willing to take initiative, your dreams may never come true no matter how much you want them to.
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