Mental Toughness for Sport Business and Life

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Times''serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'>In all facets of life most people strive for success.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>This could mean getting a promotion to vice-president making the high school basketball team having your children grow up to be good citizens or getting the family together for holidays.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Many of the elements of success are likely to include recovering from failure short and long-term goals perseverance focused concentration coping with adversity and keeping confident despite obstacles.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>To be successful requires many of these attributes and some people might consider them to be ingredients of mental toughness.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>But what is mental toughness? Let's look at the following examples and you can decide whether the person is mentally tough or not.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Times''serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'> </SPAN></P><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Times''serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'>A basketball player is injured and despite the fact that he may re-injure himself and hurt his long-term career he decides to play in the championship game to help his teammates. </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Times''serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'>A businesswoman is feeling really sick but she has a big presentation scheduled for today. Even though she might not be at her very best she sucks it up takes some medicine and goes into work to deliver her presentation.</SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Times''serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'> </SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Times''serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'>Are these examples of mental toughness or not?<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Would your conclusion be any different based on the outcome of the situation? For example would you say the businesswoman was mentally tough if she gave a great presentation but should have stayed home if due to her illness gave a poor presentation? These are difficult decisions and people will typically come to different conclusions concerning what is mental toughness.</SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Times''serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'>In this book I will provide evidence regarding the meaning of mental toughness.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Its component will be broken down and tips for how to build mental toughness will be provided. So get started on the journey of understanding mental toughness and taking concrete steps to become more mentally tough.</SPAN></P>