North Star Mental Fitness

Coaching for Momentum

Coach momentum to overcome adversities. Have you ever lost momentum, because of disappointments, self-doubt, unexpected circumstances or defeat? 

Has your team lost momentum following a good play by the other side or a bad play by your team?

Loss of momentum is a normal reaction when things go wrong.  Maintaining momentum when things go wrong is the result of good coaching and mental fitness. How can loss of momentum be turned into success?

Mental Fitness

Mental fitness is the psychological strength to efficiently and successfully manage stresses, problems, adversities, painful emotions, and frustrations in daily living.  Mental fitness is having the strength and freedom to overcome your daily problems and painful emotions.

Mental fitness is a necessary ingredient for successfully reaching your goals and achieving your dreams. Mental fitness can empower your to actualize your potential and elevate your functioning and achievement to higher levels.

New Year; New Choices and a New Life

Once a year, we celebrate New Year's Day. In reality, the first of the year is no different than any other day of the year. The same laws of the universe apply every day of the year.

What makes New Year's Day special is the deeper meaning. The message of hope generated by making new choices. Choices based upon reflection, honesty, self-awareness and commitment to change. For each one of us, we can have a New Day this year.

We must go beyond resolutions. We can change. We do have hope. We can achieve our dreams. New choices or re-commitment to old choces nurtured with courage, passion and persistency create a New Day and eventually a New Life.

For the wise, New Year's Day symbolizes the reality of finding a New Life this year. Some day during this year. A day when we turn the ordinary and routine in our lives into the pursuit of the spectacular. When we find genuine meaning in life. When we become self-directed and self-sufficient; while remaining connected and empathetic in our relationships.

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day;" which was written by Edith Lovejoy Pierce'

Mary Pickford said "Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it".

Remember, We Will Live the New Year, as Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

60,000 Thoughts a Day

How many thoughts to you have on a daily basis?  According to Possibility Coaches, we have approximately 60,000 thoughts a day.

That is a lot of thoughts.  Out of your 60,000 thoughts yesterday, how many of them were determined by your conscious mind?  Did you purposely choose to change a thought or make a new thought?  Did you question any of your thoughts?  Did you decide that any of your thoughts were wrong or lies? 

Did you consciously began to think differently than in the past, because you want to change your life?  Did you consciously decide to frequently repeat thoughts in order to change the quality of your life including how you feel?

These questions are extremely important for you to consider and answer.  Most of our thoughts are automatic and not consciously created by us.  Unfortunately many of our thoughts are determined by past disappointments, fears, anxieties, painful issues and unsolved problems.  As a result, we frequently have automatic negative thoughts that control our mind and destroy our well-being.  Because we are so gullible to our own thinking, we accept our thinking as true even when it is not.

I urge you to interrupt the repetitive pattern of absorbing the same worn-out thoughts as true.  You do not have to be a prisoner to your own thinking.

If you want freedom, happiness, peace of mind and control of your life, then it is mandatory that you consciously take control of your thinking!

How you think will determine how you feel, act, and relate.  How you think will determine the quality and destiny of your life.  True mental fitness is determined by consciously interrupting the pattern of automatic thinking and consciously thinking thoughts that will provide you with a window of opportunity to be the person you really want to be.

Remember, We Live within the Lives Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

Accepting Frustration

Frustrations are inevitable and often times unexpected.  I am in the process of moving my office.  Obviously, there are numerous frustrations associated with this undertaking.  However, I never anticipated the additional frustrations associated with having to change my website.

I now have a new website www.Northstarmentalfitness.com.  I no longer will be blogging at Northstarmentalfitnessblog.com.  Changing my website was not anticipated and has created tremendous frustrations.

Is Mental Fitness for You?

Take Care of You.  Take Control of Your Life.  Think to Be Strong.  Think to Be Stronger Than Your Problems.  Organize and Empower Your Mind with Mental Fitness Strategies.

Life is full of changes, risks, disappointments and challenges.  Mental fitness training can help you find the strength, clarity of thought and confidence to successfully take care of yourself, even during difficult times.

The goal of mental fitness is to make you strong enough to achieve your goals and solve your problems.  The goal of mental fitness is much larger than solving specific problems.  You can be stronger than your problems.  You will find peace of mind and solutions for any and all of your problems by increasing your mental fitness.

At North Star Mental Fitness we believe everyone can improve their mental fitness.  We can all improve our mental fitness by concentrating and making our thinking more organized, efficient and powerful.

Just ask us how!

You can have the tools to turn your past failures and disappointments into successes by applying mental fitness strategies from the North Star Mental Fitness Program and the e-book, I Live within the Environment Created by My Choices.

Remember, You Live within the Mind, Body and Environment Created by Your Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE

We are pleased to announce that www.northstarmentalfitness.com has replaced northstarmentalfitnessblog.com.  All of the posts from the former website can be accessed through northstarmentalfitness.com.

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Walk Out of Depression and Anxiety

Do you want to avoid psychiatric medications?

If you do, consider walking.

Jasper Smits is a researchers and director of the Anxiety Research and Treatment Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  Dr. Smits reported the following findings regarding walking. 

“Individuals who exercise report fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression, and lower levels of stress and anger. Exercise appears to affect, like an antidepressant, particular neurotransmitter systems in the brain, and it helps patients with depression re-establish positive behaviors. For patients with anxiety disorders, exercise reduces their fears of fear and related bodily sensations such as a racing heart and rapid breathing.”

Why not begin walking today?  Why not choose to be less anxious and depressed?

Remember, We Live within the Bodies Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

The Tea Party

The original Boston Tea Party was on December 16, 1773. A group of Massachusetts Patriots, protested the monopoly on American tea importation granted by Parliament to the East India Company. The members of the Boston tea party seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor.

Once again, the Tea Party has become an important force in American politics. Today, I do not want to look at the Tea Party from a political perspective. Instead, let us look at the Tea Party from the perspective of mental fitness.

From this perspective, the tea party is an exciting group of individuals, who are working together to achieve their mutual goals. The essence of mental fitness is focusing and actively taking care of oneself in all areas of our lives.

The Tea Party is not depending on politicians or the President to make their lives better.

The Tea Part members are focused on taking care of themselves through becoming genuinely and actively committed to change the politics in our country.

Tea Party members are living in the present and not immobilized by the past .

Tea Party members remained focused in spite of the negativity of the press and the ridicule of the current American ruling class.

The Tea Party members are willing to accept the frustrations necessary to achieve their goals.

The Tea Party members know that happiness, freedom, piece of mind and control of their lives is dependent on their efforts and will be destroyed by being apathetic or dependent upon our current government and politicians.

The Tea Party members get It from a mental fitness perspective .

They sense the urgency and necessity of actively committing to changing our government so that people can self-actualize and pursue their dreams.

Remember, We Live within the Government Created by Our Choices or Our Failure to Make Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

Stretch Your Mind

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions".

This wonderful quotation was made by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The essence of mental fitness is expressed by Oliver Wendell Holmes' quotation. In order to grow our mind and have a healthy, strong minds, we need to find new ways to think or new ideas to expand our comfort zone.

Isn't it comforting and exciting to know that once we really stretch our minds with a new idea, our minds never regain its original dimension . New ideas challenge the tyranny of our past and usual way of thinking about ourselves and our lives.

New ideas can refresh and remodel our lives. We need to add new ideas into our minds so we can turn our failures into successes or turn our weaknesses into strengths.

Remember, We Live within the Environment Created by Our Thoughts!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

 

 

 

What Are the Basics of Mental Fitness?

Politicians! As I read and listen to news commentaries, I wondered to myself if our politicians are mentally fit? Are they taking care of business? Are they more interested in pleasing their special interest groups to the detriment of the country? Since I was contemplating these issues, I decided to post what I think are some of the basics of mental fitness.

The basics of mental fitness from my book, I Live within the Environment Created by My Choices.

THE BASICS OF MENTAL FITNESS

1. I Live within the environment created by my choices.

2. I focus on taking care of me, now.

3. Where I want freedom from the past, I will make new choices.

4. I accept my choices as powerful and realize the content of my choices makes me powerful or powerless .

5. I accept my freedom to make or not make choices.

6. When I make a new choice, it may feel wrong and uncomfortable.

7. I accept the momentary frustrations necessary to care for me.

8. I accept my humanness and "messing up".

9. I accept and experience my higher power.

10. I belong and I actively commit myself to my family, friends, work, community and country.

11. I have quality and balance in my logical, emotional and self-parenting decision-making.

12. Success is making choice to actualize my dreams, achieve my goals and take care of myself so I have freedom, happiness, peace of mind and power over my life.

13. I do what is necessary to be successful and take care of me.

14. I claim my successes and experience the benefits of success which are freedom, happiness, peace of mind and power over my life.

15. I accept others' opinions as separate from me and I will not allow the opinions of others to deprive me from feeling good about my successes.

16. I live in the present: the place of freedom, happiness, peace of mind and power over my life.

It is important for all of us to decide if we and our our politicians are mentally fit! Are our polit Oans making decisions that are best for taking care of our country? Are our politicians applying the principles of mental fitness in running our country?

Remember, We Live within the Environment Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach