The line is very slim between finding yourself down and out and making an attempt to rise again stronger.
Being mentally strong can help you make that comeback when you felt it was all hopeless and gone.
It’s the ability and resilient of your mind telling you to stay calm in this moment of chaos, to keep the fire of faith burning, and rebuild the burned path with courage.
What It Really Means to Be Mentally Strong
Being mentally strong in times of trouble and loss isn’t about pretending or armoring yourself with a false belief, it’s a genuine way of practicing mental strength and resilient against the wall of solid difficulty and unrest.
It’s being real and true to yourself.
It’s facing the storm with courage and vigor, admitting that the emotions need to be battled and not let them take control of you instead.
It’s believing in your own abilities, talents, and strength.
A mentally strong person won’t deny or ignore the fact of pain and trouble, they work to persevere through the difficulties until they are resolved.
They would imply themselves in action to remain steadfast and persistent until the end.
You have a choice to be resilient, mentally tough, master your thoughts, your reactions, or just tag yourself a victim of circumstances.
It’s the mental spirit that is at play that will define the moments of your life when in chaos and windy weather in relevance to the troubles of life.
To be mentally strong is making yourself believe that you can rise again and even stronger than before.
Your mental belief and positiveness becomes the foundation or the stepping stone for your rising up from the ashes of darkness and loss.
It’s like making a comeback in life moments from down to standing and then to fly.
And…
Every setback is life’s way of preparing you for your next rise.
Being mentally strong is making your mind believe that you can rise again, and surely your beliefs will be fulfilled.
Believing in the philosophy that failures, heartbreaks, and disappointments aren’t the end, they’re the training ground for being resilient and being mentally strong.
Mentally Strong Persons as Inspiration
There have been people like you and me who’ve had their falls but have fought bravely to inspire us through their years of living mentally strong, teaching us to be vigorous and hopeful, working to rise again victorious.
Nelson Mandela
He was in prison for 27 years, fighting apartheid.
He accepted his reality without surrendering to despair.
His goal was bigger than himself, freedom for South Africa. This provided a meaning that made his suffering endurable.
He wasn’t just “in prison”; he was “sacrificing for a cause.”
Lessons: Anchor your struggle to a purpose larger than yourself. Practice accepting your circumstances not as permanent, but as a current reality you can navigate without being consumed by resentment.
J.K. Rowling
A divorced, unemployed single mother living on state benefits, clinically depressed, and rejected by 12 major publishers.
Despite the rejections, she continued to send her manuscript out. Her internal belief in the world of “Harry Potter” was unshakable, acting as a shield against external validation.
The mentally strong Rowling was resilient in character and deeds and delivered, “The Harry Potter series” and became a global phenomenon, making her one of the most successful and beloved authors in history.
Lessons: Like J.K. Rowling, believe in yourself, your dreams and passions so dearly that you continue to live it despite many rejections and failures.
Steve Jobs
Fired from Apple, the very company he co-founded.
Being fired freed him to start over with NeXT and Pixar. He wasn’t trapped by the “expert” mindset of his past role at Apple.
He started new, not depressed or living in his past glory but dropping the baggage and looking into the future.
Steve returned to Apple and led it to become the most valuable company in the world with revolutionary products like the iMac, iPod, and iPhone.
Lessons: Steve Jobs lessons from his life, is not just about technology, it’s about his vision, resilience, and valuing to live a life with purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
A long string of political failures, business bankruptcies, and personal losses before he became the President of United States on March 4, 1861.
His life is a master class in not giving up.
He lost eight elections, failed in business twice, and had a nervous breakdown. Yet, he kept re-entering the arena.
He didn’t see each failure as a final verdict. He maintained a focus on his ultimate goals over a long arc of time.
Elected 16th President of the United States and successfully preserved the Union during its greatest internal crisis.
Lessons: You don’t fail by falling down; you fail by staying down. Measure your journey in years and decades, not weeks and months.
Daily Habits to Build Mental Muscles
Being mentally strong can be a practice, a habit you procure over time.
Positive Self-Talk
Tell yourself, this isn’t the end. Half the battle outside is first inside your mind.
A positive mind, will hit positive outcome.
Like telling yourself “You’re the best”, you’ve done it, you can do it again.
Before you act, you have to believe.
Our mind is never playing rest. Keeping talking positive and affirmation to yourselves.
Find your peace within, let not there be thinking with anger just because it’s going bad, but with resolving and acumen.
You’ve learned your lessons now, and now you better be smart.
“If good times didn’t last, tough times too will pass, and only the tough will survive”
Finding Strength Around
Nature has it around, find inspiration from birds around, they store nothing, and still they manage to survive.
Find inspiration by reading positive and motivational books, they surely can change your perspective, boost you up. Listen to motivational talks and learn of successful lives, even they have their setbacks that they have outlived.
Stay Disciplined
Keep your mind mentally strong and not be affected by mistakes for too long.
Second, let these mistakes not be repeated.
Every life that craves for success must first practice discipline. Discipline in habits, addictions, and limit of risk taking. There’s always a wave of discipline that should be maintained.
Learn from Failure
Your failure is your report card. So what if your report card is in the red. There’s always a room for improvement and growth.
Learn fast and learn more, learning more is identifying in advance, where else can there be a falter awaiting in the future.
Every failure is a step to success.
Practice Gratitude
Every life is a mix of reality and philosophy.
Mentally strong personality have this trait of gratitude inside them.
Focus and be grateful with what’s left, then with what’s washed away and gone.
This attitude is like a hope, a lifeline that will take you through.
There are real stories in abundance of persons having lost everything and they came back stronger.
Set Boundaries
Being mentally strong starts with being real.
Focus on progress, not perfection. You’re standing there and fighting your battle has an iota of chance to succeed then if you had given up.
Set your boundaries to reach, let your progress be slow and steady, one goal at a time. Even a single small goal achieved is a proof that you’re going somewhere, then nowhere, when you aren’t trying.
Living the Comeback Mindset
A mentally strong mind is a winners mind.
Your setbacks might be a loss of job, or in a business, faced rejection in relation or work, or a failed plan.
Yet if you look closely, each moment taught you something, it was maybe preparing or signaling to you something.
Your reaction towards them can make the difference.
Have a comeback mindset. Let the setback be your fuel for transformation. Let the pain and rejection be your teacher.
Be strong and resilient, drench in the rain now, there surely will be a sunny day soon.
Let your mentally strong mind tell you that the comeback must be slow, but it’s for sure, that should be your belief.
The strength is not measured in that you couldn’t withhold and you fell, it is determined in your getting up after the fall.
So, as long as you can breathe, tell yourself that you can try.
Rise, Rebuild, even your breathe has a voice, hear it saying, you can do it…
Every end, hides a beginning.
Every fall has a seed of a great rise.
Your life has a story, a story of comeback.
Keep thyself mentally strong…
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