How do I become mentally strong?

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.

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

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

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2. One More Rep

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

Do 11 pullups instead of 10.

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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.

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

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

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

It’s funny…

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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.

as a Navy SEAL.

5. Give Up a Vice

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

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

And it’s exactly how it sounds.

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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.

3. Turn Off the AC

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

7. Go Through Hell Week

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?)

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strength.

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

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

The same way you get physically stronger…

Another great way to boost your mental

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

6. Wake Up Earlier (Without Sleeping Less)

toughness is to meditate.

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.

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

Within a few months, you’ll be astounded by your levels of mental

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

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.

1. Cold Showers

I’d challenge you to stretch your mental

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.

I’m just better at handling the suck.

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.

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.

Start with only 12–24 hours.

toughness by turning the AC off.

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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.

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

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

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

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

Try it… You’ll see.

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

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

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

Don’t give up quality sleep to do this.

So how do you cultivate mental

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

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

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.

Here are a few ideas to get you started .

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Put up with a cold winter afternoon with no heat.

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

strength over time.

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).

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

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.

Plain and simple.

strength?

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

Our lives are way too easy.

toughness is to wake up earlier.

Do 21 pushups instead of 20.

strength isn’t rocket science.

4. Meditate

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