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I was first inspired to write this post from a video online. Lorenzo was a young boy who was shot by a stray bullet that left him in serious condition struggling with body motor function as a result. He could have easily have felt sorry for himself and give up on life. But instead, choose to persevere.

With the injury, he had to use a walker to get around and he didn’t want this for the rest of his life. So for the first time, he took up boxing. Many around him thought it was a crazy idea but he persevered with the idea nonetheless. After 6 months of pure determination and effort, he finally could stand on his own two feet without the assistance of a walker. The progress was extraordinary.

The power of the human spirit when focussed can achieve possibilities others cannot conceive. His doctor didn’t prescribe this treatment, he had to prescribe this for himself. It just goes to show when humans apply perseverance in their life anything that seemed impossible becomes possible.

Learning To Persevere

This is, without doubt, a crucial part of anyone’s mental strength toolkit. Perseverance is a skill that allows you to overcome your own minds doubt, failures and shortcomings. When we don’t persevere it just opens the door to regret. The regret of not trying harder, giving up to early or just taking the easy path.

When you make a decision that you will persevere at everything that matters in your life. That is the flip of the switch in your mind that changes everything.

When I finished university my first job was in sales and I could see perseverance in action every day. There were always people who won every day and achieved their sales targets and others who did on some days.

Two people really stood out to me. Both super skilled at communication but the main difference was that on the hard days when sales were harder to come by, one persevered to come through and the other just gave up the day. This taught me the power of perseverance and allowed me at the time on my bad days to persevere to hit my sales targets.

When you apply this to everything in your life. Well, that’s just a game-changer that keeps giving back.

How To Make It A Habit

Hoping that your mind will always make the right decision to persevere can sometimes be tricky. To make perseverance a habit. You have to make it instinctive. But first, you have to plan to use it every day.

When planning my day I will add in two times I need to persevere.

This can be anything but I choose that when I’m exercising and I have a feeling that I want to give up I will persevere for an extra 5 minutes. My second choice was when I’m struggling to calm my mind I will meditate for an extra 10 minutes.

Both these challenges I set for myself allowed me to not only have a chance to practice perseverance but also teach my mind that it works in my best interest to persevere.

After months of practising when I reflect on my day, I can see that I have achieved perseverance all the time. From when I’m playing sports or just communicating my point of view.

Creating this habit is a must for anyone and quite easy to achieve each day.

The Benefits Of Learning To Persevere

Overcoming Challenges Makes You More Confident

When you have to persevere it’s always in the hard zone.

In the hard zone, it’s uncomfortable and shows to yourself that you can achieve more than you realise.

Just before you have a chance to act to persevere there is a choice to be made to give up or carry on through the pain. When we make the decision to carry on we are boosting our confidence to reach new limits.

Perseverance Will Boost Your Productivity

Without a doubt, when you choose to persevere you will boost your productivity levels. It’s that final 10% where the most gains come from you will see when you persevere.

Whist doing exercise, where the lactic acid build-up is firing, is the time to make the most gains. Perseverance finds all the gold and rewards you are looking for boosting your productivity in the process. When others are giving up you are putting in the extra work to get the job done.

You Will Develop Your Focus

When you make a decision to persevere. Alongside it, you are developing your focus. The mind is not in relax mode at this point. It’s in fight mode. Fighting for the win, fighting to prove something to yourself and fighting to show it can be done. This requires focus.

Over time your focus will develop into a key weapon to stay the course. The focus will help keep away all the negative thoughts of wanting to scream stop but it will allow you to enter a stage or zone which will put you in-game mode where you can push your mind and body to new limits.

Resilianace Will Be Built

When you are persevering it’s like going through a brick wall or you have weight behind you trying to drag you down. It’s painful but it’s making you stronger mentally. The mindset you are creating is resilience and the resistance to pain will be increased. This is a great character trait and will help you on the journey to be your best self. No path is plain sailing it’s filled with pitfalls and obstacles. having the resilience to persevere will help you become the person you want to be.

Have The Mindset Of A Winner

No matter what field of expertise you look at from sport to business. Anyone who is successful has had to persevere to get to the top. Life whether you like it or not is about competition either with yourself or with others.

To be the best footballer competing against all other technically gifted players what are you doing that sets you apart. When your doing a degree and want to be the person who gets the highest grade alongside all other capable people. It all comes down to perseverance.

This is the skill that can set you apart from everyone else and show you that you are capable of so much more than you know.

PLEASE COMMENT AND SHARE YOUR STORIES

Has this helped you today? How are you practising perseverance? I would love to hear your thoughts and your experiences. Always remember you are not alone and everything can change.

A Final Word From The Future Mindset

I hope you enjoyed today’s article How Learning To Persevere Can Unlock Your Best Self. I hope the article has helped in some way. If you need extra help or any questions answered. Don’t hesitate to contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com

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Why A Morning Self-Care Routine Matters

If you have been in the personal development world for more than 5 minutes you have probably come across the importance of a morning routine. Every successful person you can think of has probably written down their top tips of why they’re successful based on their own morning self-care routine. From waking up at 4 am to Tony Robbins jumping into ice-cold water first thing as he awakes.

No matter what morning routine you will come across without doubt based on countless studies and real-life examples. A morning self-care routine works and definitely helps your day rather than hinder it. Over time if it’s consistently performed the compound of action will change your life with the output and productivity of your day.

No matter what you having a winning morning routine is a must for building mindset strength.

How To Create A Morning Routine And Stick To It

I have tried out morning routines from successful people and as great as they are. Copying someone else’s morning routine doesn’t feel right. It feels great at first but then becomes forced. Furthermore, I have come to the conclusion that you should only look at others morning routines as a guide.

From there you should create your own morning routine that suits your personality, time restraints, areas of focus and so on. The reality is if you don’t enjoy your morning routine the chances of you making it a habit will be difficult. Who wants to wake up to do chores no one. You want to wake to do something you know will be challenging but fun, rewarding and above all easy to do.

Having this mindset in place then you must plan what you want to do. Planning is the first important part of your self-care morning routine. Without a plan, there is no focus or accountability. So planning the time you will awake and what you will do is crucial for any implementation of the morning routine you wish to create.

Within the plan, there must be 4 headings that must be fulfilled to create a winning morning routine.

The 4 Musts Of A Morning Self-Care Routine

Kick Start Your Mind With The 1-Hour Morning Self-Care Routine

1. Set Your Intention

Where the mind goes your intention will flow. This statement is a powerful one. It shows exactly how the mind works when it comes to taking action with anything and that’s where you focus the mind.

When setting an intention for your morning routine make it easily achievable. If your attention is to break your personal best with every routine you are going to wake up with the opportunity to doubt procrastinate and roll over back to sleep. But if your intention is to just give your best effort, to focus on 10-minute meditation etc. You’re waking up to something you can easily achieve. Starting your day with as many little wins you can achieve will build momentum into your day for harder challenges.

Setting your intention as well on paper will allow the mind to process what’s to come and will subconsciously prepare you to wake up ready to go. If you don’t point your mind in the right direction it will inevitability choose the easy road.

2. Get Up Straight Away

Waking up is in my opinion the most important part of your morning routine and also the most challenging. This is the part of the routine that’s make or break your day. Studies have shown that hitting the snooze button or waking up late can affect your day for the worse. There is nothing worse than waking up to know you only have 5 minutes to get ready even after the 5th snooze button you wake up all groggy.

Waking up straight away is the first battle and sets your intention for the rest of your day. It will be challenging and thoughts might race through to keep you comfortable but just get up anyway. There are many tricks you can do to force you of bed that you can easily think of and look at it online.

My favourite one I’m practising at the moment is from ex-navy seal Jocko Willink who on his Instagram page publishes his watch with the time he woke up as inspiration to others to attack their day. For me, this has put my mind into accountability mode to take a picture and also to focus my mind on the importance of looking at my watch for the time.

Whatever strategy you pick waking up straight away no matter what time you pick is of importance for winning your day.

3. Stimulate The Mind

The next part of your self-care morning routine is to wake up the mind. There are many you can do this. The reason why it’s important is that this is the time when your mind is at its freshest for taking in information and being able to be the most creative. Getting your mind focussed, calm and ready for the day will allow everything around you to flow better. This could be the music you play, gratitude, meditation, writing etc. Whatever it is set a time limit of 30 minutes and enjoy the process.

4. Wake Up The Body

After waking up the mind it’s time to wake up the body. Yoga, ice bath or a full-body warm-up and stretch can go a long way. Connecting the body and mind together is important. If the mind is ready but the body is lethargic. You will not at your best as the body reflects the mind. But when there are both working in harmony great things happen. Also working out the body release chemicals into the brain that stimulate it in such a way it gives us motivation and energy to move forward with the day.

By thinking of the body and the mind as two moving parts that work best together you will understand the importance of making sure the body is worked out too.

The Habit That Creates The Law Of Momentum

Like anything the first time you prepare your morning routine the first two days are easy and motivating and you feel like you will do this routine forever. Don’t be fooled by this. Prepare the mind that sooner rather than later the mind will get bored and will not wake up to do the morning routine you previously thought would never end. This is the most important part of forming a morning routine habit. It doesn’t matter what time you wake up, what mindset or physical routine you have in place. Mine change all the time.

The most important part is following the 4 steps no matter how you feel. Over time like every habit that’s done long enough and consistently will be done without much effort. The law of momentum will take over and the benefits you will reap from your effort will literally change your life.

What’s The Benfits

Control of your time
A proven winning habit
A boost in wellbeing
A focused mind
A creative mind
Mind & Body working together
Your first win of the day
Redusing stress & anxiety

What To Prepare For

For missing a day (It’s ok just don’t make it two days in a row)
Not having enough time to complete an hour morning routine (rare occations)
Missing your alarm
Your mind waking you up to persuade to stay in bed
To not find your perfect routine staright away
To comapre your routine to others (DON’T DO THIS)

PLEASE COMMENT AND SHARE YOUR STORIES

What routines are you going to implement for your mind and body? What do you think about the 4 points to a morning routine? I would love to hear your thoughts and your experiences with dealing with this. Always remember you are not alone and everything can change.

A Final Word From The Future Mindset

I hope you enjoyed today’s article Kick Start Your Mind With The 1-Hour Morning Self-Care Routine. I hope the article has helped in some way. If you need extra help or any questions answered. Don’t hesitate to contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com

We are on social media platforms below but we are really excited to announce our weekly newsletter about everything mindset. Sign up below and enjoy the process of building your mental strength.

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