Ways to go beyond your limits

We all know of people who have beaten what the humans[till that time] thought impossible — AND — the number of THESE incredible PEOPLE ARE NOT one, two or few — they are in thousands, in every country — who have defied and redefined what human BODY is capable of by accomplishing unbelievable physical feats.

All of us are awed by the physical-performance — while Watching the Olympics.

Rarely we see and connect their physical performance with their mental, psychological and emotional — power, stamina, endurance and limits.

To a certain degree our many limits are physical — like if your Muscles aren’t conditioned for a certain task, they may tear under stress higher than you have handled — YET — THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN DO IMPOSSIBLE PHYSICAL TASKS — IS BY MAKING YOURSELF TOUGH MENTALLY & Emotionally.

Let us define — What does the mental + emotional + psychological toughness — actually means

1. Mental toughness ultimately comes down to our habits of mind and discipline

2. Mental toughness is not about our motivation. Because Motivation is fickle and Willpower can only be stretched so far.

3. Neither Mental toughness is about getting an incredible dose of inspiration or courage. It’s about building the daily habits that allow you to stick to a schedule and overcome challenges and distractions over and over and over again

4. The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we never see them fight [almost all the globally known athletes and successful people have gone through their own battles and wars]

5. Mentally tough people don’t have to be more courageous, more talented, or more intelligent — just more consistent

6. So often we think that mental toughness is about how we respond to extreme situations. How did you perform in the championship game? Can you keep your life together while grieving the death of a family member? Did you bounce back after your business went bankrupt? — YES — There’s no doubt that extreme situations DO test our courage, perseverance, and mental toughness … but what about everyday circumstances?

7. Mental toughness is like a muscle. It needs to be worked to grow and develop. If you haven’t pushed yourself in thousands of small ways, of course you’ll snap when things get really difficult.

8. Mental toughness is built through small wins. It’s the individual choices that we make on a daily basis that build our “mental toughness muscle.” We all want mental strength, but you can’t think your way to it. It’s your physical actions that prove your mental fortitude

9. Our mental toughness can be defined as the ability to maintain the focus and determination to complete a course of action despite difficulty or consequences — to never quit.

Some of the toughest human endurance tests in the world — where people go and test their limits are — I have given the toughest ones

1. Self-Transcendence — Runners cover 3,100 miles in 52 days by running 5,649 laps around one block in Queens, NY, passing the same playground, ball fields, and high school, all on punishing concrete. Successful runners have to cover 60 miles a day on an average

2. 6633 Arctic Ultra — The 6633 Arctic Ultra is known as one of the hardest, coldest, windiest long- distance footraces humans have undertaken. Competitors must support themselves over 120 or 350 miles, both of which cross into the Arctic Circle Runners must complete the course in 191 hours.

3. Grand to Grand Ultra — 273 km (170 miles). 6 Stages. 7 Days

4. Barkley Marathons — The Barkley Marathons is an approximately 100 miles race held in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee. Runners have 60 hours to complete it.

They are six types of people in varying types Mental-Toughness– broadly — although many of us may use all the 6 types in different situations and with different people

1. Intrinsically motivated self-starters — They need little encouragement to give their best effort — as they normally have passion induced internal self-propelling and self-generating energies and motivations

2. Challenge/pressure motivated — some of the folks can actually shine when the pressure of competition is on. They revel in the chance to compare themselves with others.

3. Success/Opportunity Driven — Research has established that if all things being equal between two competitors, whoever has a higher achievement motivation will be the final winner or the champion

4. Avoid Failures/Loss Type — They only move out of their comfort zones, when the danger of big loss

5. Ego driven people — These respond to challenges that threaten their egos

6. Forced/Need driven types

The 7th type would be those — who won’t budge — no matter what.

30 Ways on How to be GO BEYOND YOUR LIMITS

1. Identify your powerful WHYs of Purpose, Existence, Living — all the people who can identify their Whys — have the Constant Intrinsic-Inspiration and Motivation

2. Visualize — this NLP tool is great — when you are going for difficult, unknown, never-done-before, earlier-failed tasks

3. Meditate Correctly — by understanding the purpose of meditation

I. The 1st purpose of meditation is to understand yourself and being fully comfortable with yourself.

II. 2nd objective is to be conscious of all the thoughts passing through your brain as an external observer [and not trying to control, suppress, negate or unduly getting worried]

III. 3rd purpose of meditation is the ability to introspect objectively

IV. 4th reason to meditate is to go into thoughtless-ness state => To be calm

V. 5th benefit of correct mediation is trying to solve problem — by getting your sub-conscious to guide your solution process

4. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

5. Anticipating and Being prepared for higher levels of challenges/obstacles, than it is at stake — Endurance athletes have a saying — Nothing new on race day — Meaning if you’ve prepared yourself for everything, you’ll be ready for anything

6. Anticipating all the challenges, probable obstacles/difficulties and problems that may arise — and creating multiple solutions along with fine-tuning ourselves by having several pilot run real-time

7. Continuous and consistent practice — in case a new skill or talent is needed to be acquired

8. Raising the bar for yourself — in small byte-sized incremental increase in the endurance level, everyday basis => both physical as well as mental

9. Learning to withstand pain — We almost never come close to our physical limits. Look at the second/third — place Olympic champion — are they dead — NO — It means they could have done better — By pushing themselves physically and mentally EVEN FARTHER- for full read https://successunlimited-mantra.com/index.php/blog/how-to-break-through-your-limits