How an Iron Mindset can Transform your Performance!

Whatever you are doing and wherever you seek success, from athletic achievement to maximizing your performance in your career, there are multiple factors that help you fulfil your potential. A healthy body and the #skills and knowledge to take on the task are the ones we tend to focus on, but just as important is mental attitude, and getting that right can have an astonishing impact on your performance.

The Iron Mind

There are many ways to approach your mental preparedness for the challenges you face, with one of the more popular, and successful, being the iron mind approach. When we talk about iron mind, it is a #mindset that embraces challenges, focusing on action rather than end results.

Iron mind is the absence of doubt, avoiding indecision and without anxiety or fear. To achieve this, the #ironmind approach teaches you to assess every situation and control what you can control, and simply accept that which you cannot control.

It is easier said than done, and requires practice, but by taking an iron mind approach, you begin to see your challenges in a different way. With your mind focusing on the task at hand, the thing you can control, and not worrying about the things you cannot control, future outcomes or other factors, you can put all your effort where it matters.

What Does that Mean in Practice?

Think of a training program for an upcoming competition. Who is likely to be in better shape, the person who focuses for 8 weeks on the training task, or the person who spends 8 weeks worrying about the competition itself?

Both can do the same training during those 8 weeks, but come the competition it is the one that focused their #mind on the training, making each day the best training possible, who will be in the best condition.

That is the value of the iron mind approach, and why it matters for everything you do. The example of #training is a great one, because the same principle applies to almost everything we do in life. Think about your career, when you find that perfect next step and apply for a job you really want. You know you would be great for that position, and you get an interview. What happens next?

Do you spend the interview focused on the conversation, presenting yourself in the best way possible, or do you get nervous, worry about what would happen if you didn’t get the job, and leave the interview with regrets, that you didn’t do your best? That is the difference between someone with an #ironmindset, and someone without.

We can all relate to the second person, and have probably done that at some point, but we should all seek to be the first one. Assured, focused on the thing we can control, our own responses in the interview, and that is why the iron mind is such a valuable approach to every aspect of life.

More Resilience, Improved Performance

While the ability to focus on the important things inevitably leads to improved performance, that is not the only advantage that adopting an #ironmindset will provide. Whatever the challenge, at some point in all our lives things won’t go as planned. This is inevitable, whether the cause is our own failure or something entirely out of our hands. If that happens while trying to overcome a challenge in sport, career or anything else, it can have a dramatic effect.

If you are easily distracted from what matters, if you allow things that are gone and out of your control to dictate your actions, if you let failure dwell, then new #challenges are likely to be failed to. Instead of one setback, you suddenly become stuck as everything becomes a problem too large to overcome. You can be in danger of becoming overwhelmed by the issues, and in that situation, you can never perform even close to your best. Doubt becomes your guide, and failure is almost an inevitability.

But it doesn’t have to be like that. By adopting the #ironmindset, you become more resilient to setbacks. Instead of allowing a problem to dominate your focus, cast doubt and leave you floundering and overcome by further issues, you can take action and overcome anything.

At the heart of the iron mind approach is the recognition that only things you can control should be the focus of your efforts. There is nothing to gain from worrying about an issue that has already happened, because you cannot change it. Instead, iron mind compels you to put your energy into the things you can affect, you keep on working, overcoming the next obstacle and pushing towards your goal.

By continually looking at the task at hand, whatever that may be, the doubt never appears, but more than that, you keep taking action towards the goal. This gives natural resilience to setbacks, and ensures that you continue to #perform regardless, even after such a problem.

A Different Mindset

Iron mind rests how we look at life, how we approach our goals and what we recognize as the best path to achieve them. By allowing us to constantly allow our energy to go where most productive, rather than thinking or worrying about things we can have no influence over, an #ironmindset inevitably leads to improved performance in anything we are attempting.

From sports to writing a dissertation, a job application to learning a new language, whatever the goal, iron mind puts anyone in a better place to achieve it. Through this approach, not only will you perform better in any situation, but because you don’t spend time on things you can’t control, worrying about problems instead of overcoming them, you will find yourself feeling stronger and better too.

It is not the answer to everything, but by adopting an #ironmindset, you can improve performance and improve your experience in everything you do.?