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Being mentally tough is having a no quit attitude. It’s a determination or psychological strength to succeed even when life doesn’t go the way that you feel it should.

You need this kind of mental toughness in all areas of life. Getting what you want out of life isn’t something that happens to those who aren’t mentally tough. That’s because setbacks and failures are going to happen.

Mental training can create an iron will in you to keep going through tough conditions to achieve a goal or reach a dream regardless of what’s standing in the way.

You need mental training in many areas, but especially in the area of change. This is because people tend to think of goals or life plans as being all or nothing. They don’t plan for any contingencies because they don’t foresee it. Or they don’t want something to go wrong so badly that they’re afraid planning for it will make a plan fail. So they don’t. There’s a saying that says, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” so adhere to that statement instead of worrying that if you make a plan for failure, it might come true.

Rarely does any goal or plan work out 100% the way that you want it or expect it to. Knowing how to adjust a goal is for your benefit. This way, you can take on a setback and it doesn’t knock you out of the competition for good.

You stay in the game – you just utilize a new idea of how to get that goal accomplished. With mental training, you learn to understand that success is not something that you arrive at and then you’re done. Success is always changing. It’s the here and now that matters most – not the future. This can help you see the importance in having goals that reflect your current life, not ones that you made in the past that don’t take into account who or where you are today.

Mental training helps you see that you must be confident and strive for what you want each day – that you have to be thankful for the journey instead of being so end of the line focused that you miss out on all of the chances and opportunities and good things all around you right now.

If you keep your focus solely on a goal you didn’t make, you can miss opportunities that could translate into even better things for your life. This is where you have to be mentally tough enough to learn what you need to bypass or let go of and what you need to hold on to.

Some opportunities will shift and change. You’ll have to recognize when something is no longer serving a purpose or helping to meet an end result. This mental toughness is needed to make changes that can be difficult, such as ending a business relationship when it’s not helping you reach personal success.

Or it might be leaving a personal relationship that’s holding you back from being your best self. These decisions shouldn’t be taken lightly, but they shouldn’t be ignored, either just because they make you uncomfortable.