How do I become mentally strong?

Our lives are way too easy.

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

1. Cold Showers

How often do prisoners try to escape from jail/prison, and how many of them succeed?

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

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.

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

What is your favourite summer outfit? Why?

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

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

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.

Do you think it is likely that Maegor was presented a young dragon at some point, almost to the point of full-bonding, only to scorn it for Balerion in the end? If so, which one could it have been?

2. One More Rep

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

Do 11 pullups instead of 10.

What is a fun psychological trick to try on someone?

6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)

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.

Seriously.

Which bands became massively popular for covering songs rather than recording originals?

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

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

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

What would you change in Rings of Power?

Mental

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

7. Go Through Hell Week

Do individuals with borderline personality disorder have awareness of their actions or do they believe their behavior is normal?

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?)

4. Meditate

Is it possible to revive a dead person in real life with black magic?

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

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

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.

Why is pure dopamine not a recreational drug? And if it was wouldn’t it be the most addictive and fairly side effect free?

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

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

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

With retail cyberattacks on the rise, customers find orders blocked and shelves empty - AP News

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

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

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 Can't Wait for Apple's F1 Movie. Its Haptic iPhone Trailer Has Me Even More Excited - CNET

Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.

Start with only 12–24 hours.

I’d challenge you to stretch your mental

Was Michael Jackson really an innocent person?

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.

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.

Here are a few ideas to get you started .

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

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

strength isn’t rocket science.

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.

It’s funny…

3. Turn Off the AC

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.

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

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

strength?

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).

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

Before We Begin: The Principle of Progressive Overload

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

toughness by turning the AC off.

The same way you get physically stronger…

And it’s exactly how it sounds.

Do 21 pushups instead of 20.

Try it… You’ll see.

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

I’m just better at handling the suck.

Another great way to boost your mental

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

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

as a Navy SEAL.

toughness.

strength.

5. Give Up a Vice

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.

Start this off by doing it for one day.

Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.

toughness is to wake up earlier.

toughness is to meditate.

So how do you cultivate mental

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.

strength over time.

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

Plain and simple.

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