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Mental Toughness, Optimal Mental Health. mental toughness, optimal mental health, and a better you begins with this question.

One day you're in traffic and it bothers you.

The next day you're in the same traffic and it doesn't. You're in a good mood or you listen to a

podcast and it has no impact on you. Is it the traffic making you feel a certain way?

No, because it was the traffic you'd feel the same way all the time.

This underscores the truth, that it's never the circumstance, it's never the event.

If you're in sales, it's not. The rejection, because one day the rejection really bothers you and you question whether you should continue in sales and ever do this again. Another day, you're in a different state of mine

and you move forward, you move on, you're like,

I got this, I'll make this happen.

So what is it?

If it's not the circumstance, what is it?

It's always our state of mind. When your state of mind is low, the

circumstance happens and it bothers you. When your state of mind is high, the

same circumstance can happen and you rise above. You move forward, you

move on, you overcome. What characterizes a low state of mind? A lot of clutter, a lot of

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